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Free same-meter accompaniment for Living Bread (John Fawcett): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Thy presence, gracious God, afford,
- Prepare us to receive Thy Word;
- Now let Thy voice engage our ear,
- And faith be mixed with what we hear.
- 2Distracting thoughts and cares remove,
- And fix our hearts and hopes above;
- With food divine may we be fed,
- And satisfied with living bread.
- 3To us the sacred Word apply
- With sov'reign power and energy;
- And may we, in Thy faith and fear,
- Reduce to practice what we hear.
- 4Father, in us Thy Son reveal;
- Teach us to know and do Thy will;
- Thy saving power and love display,
- And guide us to the realms of day.
- 5Amen.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Living Bread page.
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