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Play “Our Fathers; Where Are They?”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Our Fathers; Where Are They? (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 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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- 1How swift the torrent rolls
- That bears to us to the sea!
- The tide that hurries thoughtless souls
- To vast eternity!
- 2Our fathers, where are they,
- With all they call'd their own?
- Their joys and griefs, and hopes and cares,
- And wealth and honour, gone.
- 3There, where the fathers lie,
- Must all the children dwell;
- Nor other heritage possess,
- But such a gloomy cell.
- 4God of our fathers! hear,
- Thou everlasting friend!
- While we, as on life’s utmost verge,
- Our souls to thee commend.
- 5Of all the pious dead
- May we the footsteps trace,
- Till with them, in the land of light,
- We dwell before thy face.
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 Our Fathers; Where Are They? page.
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