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Play “Like Sheep We Went Astray”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Like Sheep We Went Astray (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 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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- 1Like sheep we went astray,
- And broke the fold of God
- Each wandering in a different way,
- But all the downward road.
- 2How dreadful was the hour,
- When God our wanderings laid,
- And did at once his vengeance pour
- Upon the Shepherd's head!
- 3How glorious was the grace,
- When Christ sustained the stroke!
- His life and blood the Shepherd pays,
- A ransom for the flock.
- 4But God shall raise his head,
- O'er all the sons of men,
- And make him see a numerous seed,
- To recompense his pain.
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 Like Sheep We Went Astray page.
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