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Free same-meter accompaniment for Friend of the Friendless (William Cowper): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1God of my life, to Thee I call;
- Afflicted, at Thy feet I fall:
- When the great water-floods prevail,
- Leave not my trembling heart to fail.
- 2Friend of the friendless and the faint,
- Where should I lodge my deep complaint?
- Where but with Thee, whose open door
- Invites the helpless and the poor?
- 3Did ever mourner plead with Thee,
- And Thou refuse that mourner’s plea?
- Does not the word still fixed remain,
- That none shall seek Thy face in vain?
- 4That were a grief I could not bear,
- Didst Thou not hear and answer prayer;
- But a prayer-hearing, answering God
- Supports me under every load.
- 5Fair is the lot that’s cast for me;
- I have an Advocate with Thee;
- They whom the world caresses most
- Have no such privilege to boast.
- 6Poor thou I be, despised, forgot,
- Yet God, my God, forgets me not;
- And he is safe, and must succeed,
- For whom the Lord Himself does plead.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Friend of the Friendless page.
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