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Play “O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand”
Free same-meter accompaniment for O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand (Leonard Bacon): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 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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- 1O God, beneath Thy guiding hand
- Our exiled fathers crossed the sea;
- And when they trod the wintry strand,
- With prayer and psalm they worshiped Thee.
- 2Thou heard'st well pleased, the song, the prayer:
- Thy blessing came; and still its pow'r
- Shall onward, thro' all ages, bear
- The mem'ry of that holy hour.
- 3Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
- Came with those exiles o'er the waves;
- And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
- The God they trusted guards their graves.
- 4And here Thy Name, O God of love,
- Their children's children shall adore,
- Till these eternal hills remove,
- And spring adorns the earth no more.
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 O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand page.
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