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Play “How heavy is the night”
Free same-meter accompaniment for How heavy is the night (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1How heavy is the night
- That hangs upon our eyes,
- Till Christ with his reviving light
- Over our souls arise!
- 2Our guilty spirits dread
- To meet the wrath of heaven;
- But, in his righteousness arrayed,
- We see our sins forgiven.
- 3Unholy and impure
- Are all our thoughts and ways:
- His hands infected nature cure
- With sanctifying grace.
- 4The powers of hell agree
- To hold our souls in vain;
- He sets the sons of bondage free,
- And breaks the cursed chain.
- 5Lord, we adore thy ways
- To bring us near to God,
- Thy sovereign power, thy healing grace,
- And thine atoning blood.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the How heavy is the night page.
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