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Play “Lovest Thou Me?”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Lovest Thou Me? (John Newton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1'Tis a point I long to know,
- Oft it causes anxious thought;
- Do I love the Lord, or no?
- Am I his, or am I not?
- 2Could my heart so hard remain,
- Prayer a task and burden prove,
- Every trifle give me pain,
- If I knew a Saviour's love?
- 3Yet I mourn my stubborn will,
- Find my sin a grief and thrall;
- Should I grieve for what I feel,
- If I did not love at all?
- 4Could I joy with saints to meet,
- Choose the ways I once abhorred,
- Find at times the promise sweet,
- If I did not love the Lord?
- 5Lord, decide the doubtful case,
- Thou who art thy people's Sun;
- Shine upon thy work of grace,
- If it be indeed begun.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Lovest Thou Me? page.
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