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Free same-meter accompaniment for How Much I Owe (Robert Murray McCheyne): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune DIX (Conrad Kocher) 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.

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  1. 1When this passing world is done,
  2. When has sunk yon glorious sun;
  3. When we stand with Christ in glory,
  4. Looking o'er life's finished story,
  5. Then, Lord, shall I fully know--
  6. Not till then--how much I owe!
  7. 2When I hear the wicked call
  8. On the rocks and hills to fall;
  9. When I see them start and shrink,
  10. On the fiery deluge brink,
  11. Then, Lord, shall I fully know--
  12. Not till then--how much I owe!
  13. 3When I stand before the throne,
  14. Clothed in beauty not my own;
  15. When I see thee as thou art,
  16. Love thee with unsinning heart,
  17. Then, Lord, shall I fully know--
  18. Not till then--how much I owe!
  19. 4When the praise of heaven I hear,
  20. Loud as thunders to the ear,
  21. Loud as many waters' noise,
  22. Sweet as harp's melodious voice,
  23. Then, Lord, shall I fully know--
  24. Not till then--how much I owe!

About this music

DIX — Conrad Kocher. Setting: Conrad Kocher, 1838, alt. by William Henry Monk, 1861, alt. for "The English Hymnal", 1906.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from The English Hymnal, 1906 Hymn 39. Music from "Stimmen aus dem Reiche Gottes", 1838 by Kocher, Hymn 201 page 250. adapted by William Henry Monk from the original (removed two measures and changed parts of the arrangement) for "Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. Also almost just like the Bristol Tune Book of 1863, Hymn 172.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the How Much I Owe page.

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