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Play “Holy Bible, Book Divine”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Holy Bible, Book Divine (John Burton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 4 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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- 1Holy Bible, book divine,
- Precious treasure, thou art mine;
- Mine to tell me whence I came;
- Mine to teach me what I am.
- 2Mine to chide me when I rove;
- Mine to show a Savior's love;
- Mine thou art to guide and guard;
- Mine to punish or reward.
- 3Mine to comfort in distress,
- Suff'ring in this wilderness;
- Mine to show by living faith,
- Man can triumph over death.
- 4Mine to tell of joys to come,
- And the rebel sinner's doom;
- O thou holy book divine,
- Precious treasure, thou art mine.
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 Holy Bible, Book Divine page.
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