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Play “Peace, Troubled Soul”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Peace, Troubled Soul (Walter Shirley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) in four-part harmony, 2 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 MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes), a 8.8.8.8.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Peace, troubled soul, whose plaintive moan
- Hath taught each scene the note of woe,
- Cease thy complaint, suppress thy groan,
- And let thy tears forget to flow;
- Behold, the precious balm is found,
- To lull thy pain, to heal thy wound.
- 2Come, freely come, by sin oppresed;
- On Jesus cast thy weighty load;
- In him thy refuge find, thy rest,
- Safe in the mercy of thy God;
- Thy God's thy Saviour--glorious word!
- For ever love and praise the Lord.
About this music
MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Peace, Troubled Soul page.
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