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Free same-meter accompaniment for O For a Heart to Praise My God (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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. 1O for a heart to praise my God,
  2. A heart from sin set free,
  3. A heart that always feels Thy blood,
  4. So freely shed for me!
  5. 2A heart resigned, submissive, meek,
  6. My great Redeemer’s throne;
  7. Where only Christ is heard to speak,
  8. Where Jesus reigns alone.
  9. 3A humble, lowly, contrite heart,
  10. Believing, true, and clean;
  11. Which neither life nor death can part
  12. From Him that dwells within;
  13. 4A heart in every thought renewed,
  14. And full of love divine;
  15. Perfect, and right, and pure, and good,
  16. A copy, Lord, of Thine!
  17. 5Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart,
  18. Come quickly, from above;
  19. Write Thy new Name upon my heart,
  20. Thy new, best Name of Love.
  21. 6Amen.

About this music

ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the O For a Heart to Praise My God page.

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