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Free same-meter accompaniment for Parting With Carnal Joys (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1I send the joys of earth away;
- Away, ye tempters of the mind,
- False as the smooth deceitful sea,
- And empty as the whistling wind.
- 2Your streams were floating me along
- Down to the gulf of black despair,
- And whilst I listened to your song,
- Your streams had e'en conveyed me there.
- 3Lord, I adore thy matchless grace,
- That warned me of that dark abyss,
- That drew me from those treacherous seas,
- And bid me seek superior bliss.
- 4Now to the shining realms above
- I stretch my hands and glance mine eyes;
- O for the pinions of a dove,
- To bear me to the upper skies;
- 5There from the bosom of my God,
- Oceans of endless pleasure roll;
- There would I fix my last abode,
- And drown the sorrows of my soul.
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 With Carnal Joys page.
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