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Free same-meter accompaniment for Pleading the Promise (John Burton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune DARWALL'S 148TH (John Darwall) 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 DARWALL'S 148TH (John Darwall), a 6.6.6.6.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1O Thou that hearest prayer,
- Attend our humble cry;
- And let Thy servants share
- Thy blessings from on high;
- We plead the presence of Thy word;
- Grant us Thy Holy Spirit, Lord.
- 2If earthly parents hear
- Their children when they cry,
- If they, with love sincere,
- Their children's wants supply,
- Much more wilt Thou Thy love display,
- And answer when Thy children pray.
- 3Our heavenly Father, Thou!
- We, children of Thy grace!
- O let Thy Spirit now
- Descend, and fill the place:
- That all may feel the heavenly flame,
- And all unite to praise Thy name.
- 4And send Thy Spirit down
- On all the nations, Lord,
- With great success to crown
- The preaching of Thy word:
- Till heathen lands shall own Thy sway,
- And cast their idol-gods away.
- 5Amen.
About this music
DARWALL'S 148TH — John Darwall. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book with Hymnal', ULCA 1918 Hymn 68. Lyrics from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book, 1931 Hymn 11.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Pleading the Promise page.
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