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Free same-meter accompaniment for Praise to God for His Goodness and Truth (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) in four-part harmony, 4 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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  1. 1I'll praise my Maker whilst I've breath:
  2. And when my voice is lost in death,
  3. Praise shall employ my nobler powers:
  4. My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
  5. While life and thought and being last,
  6. Or immortality endures.
  7. 2Happy the man whose hopes rely
  8. On Israel's God, who made the sky,
  9. And earth, and seas, with all their train;
  10. His truth for ever stands secure;
  11. He saves th'oppressed, He feeds the poor;
  12. And none shall find His promise vain.
  13. 3The Lord gives eyesight to the blind;
  14. The Lord supports the fainting mind;
  15. He sends the laboring conscience peace;
  16. He helps the stranger in distress,
  17. The widow and the fatherless,
  18. And grants the prisoner sweet release.
  19. 4I'll praise Him while He lends me breath;
  20. And when my voice is lost in death,
  21. Praise shall employ my nobler powers:
  22. My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
  23. While life and thought and being last,
  24. Or immortality endures.

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 Praise to God for His Goodness and Truth page.

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