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Play “God's Goodness to the Children of Men”
Free same-meter accompaniment for God's Goodness to the Children of Men (Philip Doddridge): 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.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Ye sons of men, with joy record
- The various wonders of the LORD;
- And let his power and goodness sound
- Thro' all your tribes the earth around.
- 2Let the high heavens your songs invite,
- Those spacious fields of brilliant light;
- Where sun and moon and planets roll,
- And stars, that glow from pole to pole.
- 3Sing, earth, in verdant robes array'd,
- Its herbs and flowers, its fruits and shade;
- Peopled with life of various forms,
- Of fish, and fowl, and beasts, and worms.
- 4View the broad sea's majestic plains,
- And think how wide its Maker reigns;
- That band remotest nations joins,
- And on each wave his goodness shines.
- 5But O! that brighter world above,
- Where lives and reigns incarnate love,
- God's only Son, in flesh array'd,
- For man a bleeding victim made.
- 6Thither my soul with rapture soar
- There in the land of praise adore;
- The theme demands an angel's lay,
- Demands an everlasting day.
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 God's Goodness to the Children of Men page.
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