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Free same-meter accompaniment for Gentle Jesus (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 8 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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  1. 1Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
  2. Look upon a little child;
  3. Pity my simplicity,
  4. Suffer me to come to Thee.
  5. 2Fain I would to Thee be brought,
  6. Dearest God, forbid it not;
  7. Give a little child a place
  8. In the kingdom of Thy grace.
  9. 3Lamb of God, I look to Thee,
  10. Thou shalt my example be;
  11. Thou art gentle, meek and mild;
  12. Thou wast once a little child.
  13. 4Fain I would be as Thou art;
  14. Give me Thy obedient heart;
  15. Thou art pitiful and kind;
  16. Let me have Thy loving mind.
  17. 5Thou didst live to God alone,
  18. Thou didst never seek Thine own,
  19. Thou Thyself didst never please:
  20. God was all Thy happiness.
  21. 6Loving Jesus, gentle Lamb,
  22. In Thy gracious hands I am;
  23. Make me Saviour, what Thou art,
  24. Live Thyself within my heart.
  25. 7I shall then show forth Thy praise,
  26. Serve Thee all my happy days;
  27. Then the world shall always see
  28. Christ, the Holy Child, in me.
  29. 8Amen.

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 Gentle Jesus page.

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