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Free same-meter accompaniment for Love and Joy (John Wesley; Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von Zinzendorf): 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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- 1O come, Thou stricken Lamb of God!
- Who shed'st for us Thine own lifeblood,
- And teach us all Thy love:--then pain
- In life were sweet, and death were gain.
- 2Take Thou our hearts, and let them be
- Forever closed to all but Thee;
- Thy willing servants, let us wear
- The seal of love forever there.
- 3How blest are they who still abide
- Close sheltered by Thy watchful side;
- Who life and strength from Thee receive,
- And with Thee move, and in Thee live.
- 4Ah, Lord, enlarge our scanty thought,
- To know the wonders Thou hast wrought;
- Unloose our stamm'ring tongues to tell
- Thy love, immense, unsearchable.
- 5First-born of many brethren, Thou!
- To whom both heaven and earth must bow;
- Heirs of Thy shame and of Thy throne,
- We bear Thy cross, and seek Thy crown.
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 Love and Joy page.
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