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Play “Longing after God; or The Love of God Better than Life”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Longing after God; or The Love of God Better than Life (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.

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  1. 1Great God, indulge my humble claim:
  2. Be Thou my hope, my joy, my rest;
  3. The glories that compose Thy name
  4. Stand all engaged to make me blest.
  5. 2Thou great and good, Thou just and wise,
  6. Thou art my Father and my God;
  7. And I am Thine by sacred ties,
  8. Thy child and servant, bought with blood.
  9. 3With heart and eyes, and lifted hands,
  10. For Thee I long, for Thee I look,
  11. As travellers in thirsty lands
  12. Pant for the cooling water-brook.
  13. 4E'en life itself, without Thy love,
  14. No lasting pleasures can afford:
  15. Yea, 'twould but a tiresome burden prove,
  16. If I were banished from Thee, Lord.
  17. 5I'll lift my hands, I'll raise my voice,
  18. While I have breath to pray or praise;
  19. This work shall make my heart rejoice
  20. Throughout the remnant of my days.
  21. 6Amen.

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 Longing after God; or The Love of God Better than Life page.

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