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Free same-meter accompaniment for I Am Coming to the Cross (W. McDonald): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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.

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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  1. 1I am coming to the cross,
  2. I am poor and weak and blind;
  3. I am counting all but dross,
  4. I shall full salvation find.
  5. I am trusting Lord, in Thee;
  6. Blessed Lamb of Calvary;
  7. Humbly at thy cross I bow;
  8. Jesus saves me--saves me now.
  9. 2Long my heart has sighed for Thee;
  10. Long has evil dwelt within;
  11. Jesus sweetly speaks to me;
  12. "I will cleanse you from all sin."
  13. I am trusting Lord, in Thee;
  14. Blessed Lamb of Calvary;
  15. Humbly at thy cross I bow;
  16. Jesus saves me--saves me now.
  17. 3Here I give my all to Thee,
  18. Friends, and time, and earthly store;
  19. Soul and body, thine to be--
  20. Wholly thine forever more.
  21. I am trusting Lord, in Thee;
  22. Blessed Lamb of Calvary;
  23. Humbly at thy cross I bow;
  24. Jesus saves me--saves me now.
  25. 4In the promises I trust,
  26. In the cleansing blood confide;
  27. I am prostrate in the dust,
  28. I with Christ am crucified.
  29. I am trusting Lord, in Thee;
  30. Blessed Lamb of Calvary;
  31. Humbly at thy cross I bow;
  32. Jesus saves me--saves me now.
  33. 5Jesus comes, He fills my soul,
  34. Perfected in love I am.
  35. I am every whit made whole,
  36. Glory, glory to the Lamb!
  37. I am trusting Lord, in Thee;
  38. Blessed Lamb of Calvary;
  39. Humbly at thy cross I bow;
  40. Jesus saves me--saves me now.

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 I Am Coming to the Cross page.

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