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Play “How Shall a Young Man Cleanse His Way?”
Free same-meter accompaniment for How Shall a Young Man Cleanse His Way? (John Fawcett): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1With humble heart and tongue,
- My God! to thee I pray;
- O make me learn, whilst I am young,
- How I may cleanse my way.
- 2Make an unguarded youth
- The object of thy care;
- Help me to choose the path of truth,
- And fly from ev'ry snare.
- 3My heart, to folly prone,
- Inspire with love divine;
- Unite it to thyself alone,
- And make me wholly thine.
- 4O let thy word of grace
- My warmest thoughts employ;
- Be this through all my following days,
- My treasure and my joy.
- 5To what thy laws impart
- Be my whole will inclin'd;
- O let them dwell within my heart,
- And sanctify my mind.
- 6May thy young servant learn,
- By these to cleanse his way;
- And may I here the path discern
- That leads to endless day.
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 Shall a Young Man Cleanse His Way? page.
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