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Play “Not What These Hands Have Done”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Not What These Hands Have Done (Horatius Bonar): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) in four-part harmony, 3 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 ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Not what my hands have done
- Can save my guilty soul;
- Not what my toiling flesh has borne
- Can make my spirit whole.
- Not what I feel or do
- Can give me peace with God;
- Not all my prayers, and sighs, and tears
- Can bear my awful load.
- 2Thy grace alone, O God,
- To me can pardon speak;
- Thy pow'r alone, O Son of God,
- Can this sore bondage break.
- No other work save Thine,
- No other blood will do;
- No strength save that which is divine
- Can bear me safely through.
- 3I bless the Christ of God;
- I rest on love divine;
- And with unfalt'ring lip and heart
- I call this Savior mine.
- 'Tis He that saveth me,
- And freely pardon gives;
- I love, because He loveth me;
- I live, because He lives.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Not What These Hands Have Done page.
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