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Play “Looking Upwards in a Storm”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Looking Upwards in a Storm (William Cowper): 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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- 1The billows swell, the winds are high
- Clouds overcast my wintry sky;
- Out of the depths to thee I call,
- My fears are great, my strength is small.
- 2O Lord, a Saviour's part perform,
- And guide and guard me thro' the storm;
- Defend me from each threat'ning ill,
- Control the waves, say, "peace, be still."
- 3Amidst the roaring of the sea,
- My souls still hands her hope on thee;
- Thy constant love, thy faithful care,
- Is all that saves me from despair.
- 4Dangers of ev'ry shape and name,
- Attend the follow'rs of the Lamb,
- Who leave the world's deceitful shore,
- And leave it to return no more.
- 5God of my life, to thee I call,
- Afflicted at thy feet I fall;
- When the great water-floods prevail,
- Leave not my trembling heart to fail!
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 Looking Upwards in a Storm page.
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