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Play “O Thou, to Whom in Ancient Time”
Free same-meter accompaniment for O Thou, to Whom in Ancient Time (John Pierpont): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1O thou to whom, in ancient time,
- The psalmist's sacred harp was strung,
- Whom kings adored in songs sublime,
- And prophets praised with glowing tongue,
- 2From ev'ry place below the skies,
- The grateful song, the fervent prayer
- The incense of the heart may rise
- To heav'n, and find acceptance there.
- 3To thee shall age, with snowy hair,
- And strength, and beauty, bend the knee,
- And childhood lisp with rev'rent air
- Its praises and its prayers to thee.
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 Thou, to Whom in Ancient Time page.
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