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Free same-meter accompaniment for Praise God For His Goodness and Truth (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 7 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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- 1Praise ye the Lord! my heart shall join
- In work so pleasant so divine,
- Now, while the flesh is my abode,
- And when my soul ascends to God.
- 2Praise shall employ my noblest pow'rs
- While immortality endures;
- My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
- While life and thought and being last.
- 3Why should I make a man my trust?
- Princes must die and turn to dust;
- Their breath departs, their pomp and pow'r
- And thoughts, all vanish in an hour.
- 4Happy the man whose hopes rely
- On Israel's God! He made the sky
- And earth and seas, with all their train;
- And none shall find His promise vain.
- 5His truth forever stands secure;
- He saves th'oppressed, he feeds the poor;
- He sends the troubled conscience peace,
- And grants the captive sweet release.
- 6The Lord gives eyesight to the blind;
- The Lord supports the sinking mind;
- He helps the stranger in distress,
- The widow and the fatherless.
- 7He loves the Saints, He knows them well,
- But turns the wicked down to hell:
- Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns–
- Praise him in everlasting strains.
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 Praise God For His Goodness and Truth page.
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