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Free same-meter accompaniment for God My Only Happiness (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
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- 1My God, my portion, and my love,
- My everlasting All,
- I've none but thee in heaven above,
- Or on this earthly ball.
- 2What empty things are all the skies,
- And this inferior clod!
- There's nothing here deserves my joys,
- There's nothing like my God.
- 3In vain the bright, the burning sun
- Scatters his feeble light;
- 'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon;
- If thou withdraw 'tis night.
- 4And whilst upon my restless bed,
- Among the shades I roll,
- If my Redeemer shows his head,
- 'Tis morning with my soul.
- 5To thee I owe my wealth, and friends,
- And health, and safe abode:
- Thanks to thy name for meaner things:
- But they are not my God.
- 6How vain a toy is glittering wealth,
- If once compared to thee;
- Or what's my safety, or my health,
- Or all my friends to me?
- 7Were I possessor of the earth,
- And called the stars my own,
- Without thy graces and thyself,
- I were a wretch undone.
- 8Let others stretch their arms like seas,
- And grasp in all the shore;
- Grant me the visits of thy grace,
- And I desire no more.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the God My Only Happiness page.
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