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Play “Forty Days and Forty Nights”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Forty Days and Forty Nights (George Hunt Smyttan): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 6 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
Sung here to CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Forty days and forty nights
- Thou wast fasting in the wild;
- Forty days and forty nights
- Tempted, and yet undefiled.
- 2Sunbeams scorching all the day;
- Chilly dewdrops nightly shed;
- Prowling beasts about Thy way;
- Stones Thy pillow, earth Thy bed.
- 3Shall we not Thy sorrow view,
- And with hearts attuned to Thine,
- Yielding up our wills anew,
- Share with Thee a food divine?
- 4And if Satan, vexing sore,
- Flesh or spirit should assail,
- Thou, his Vanquisher before,
- Grant we may not faint nor fall.
- 5So shall we have peace divine:
- Holier gladness ours shall be;
- Round us, too, shall angels shine,
- Such as ministered to Thee.
- 6Amen.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Forty Days and Forty Nights page.
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