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Free same-meter accompaniment for Parting of Friends (Philip Doddridge): 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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- 1Thy presence, everlasting God,
- Wide o'er all nature spreads abroad;
- Thy watchful eyes, which cannot sleep,
- In every place Thy children keep.
- 2While near each other we remain,
- Thou dost our lives and souls sustain;
- When absent, Thou dost make us share
- Thy smiles, thy counsels, and Thy care.
- 3To Thee we all our ways commit,
- And seek our comforts at Thy feet;
- Still on our souls vouchsafe to shine,
- And guard and guide us still as Thine.
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 Parting of Friends page.
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