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Play “Great God, We Sing Your Guiding Hand”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Great God, We Sing Your Guiding Hand (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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  1. 1Great God, we sing that mighty hand
  2. By which supported still we stand;
  3. The opening year Thy mercy shows--
  4. Let mercy crown it till it close.
  5. 2By day, at night, at home, abroad,
  6. Still are we guarded by our God;
  7. By His incessant bounty fed,
  8. By His unerring counsel led.
  9. 3With grateful hearts the past we own;
  10. The future, all to us unknown,
  11. We to Thy guardian care commend;
  12. Do Thou to all our wants attend.
  13. 4In scenes exalted or depressed,
  14. Be Thou our joy and thou our rest;
  15. Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,
  16. Adored thro' all our changing days.
  17. 5When death shall interrupt our songs
  18. And seal in silence mortal tongues,
  19. Our helper, God, thro' endless days
  20. With better songs our souls shall praise.
  21. 6Amen.

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 Great God, We Sing Your Guiding Hand page.

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