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Free same-meter accompaniment for Return, O Wanderer, Return (William Bengo Collyer): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 3 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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  1. 1Return! return!
  2. O wand'rer, now return!
  3. Return! return!
  4. And seek thy Father's face;
  5. Those new desires which in thee burn
  6. Were kindled by His grace,
  7. Were kindled by His grace.
  8. 2Return! return!
  9. O wand'rer, now return!
  10. Return! return!
  11. He hears thy humble sigh;
  12. He sees thy burdened spirit mourn
  13. When no one else is nigh,
  14. When no one else is nigh.
  15. 3Return! return!
  16. O wand'rer, now return!
  17. Return! return!
  18. The Savior bids thee live;
  19. Come humbly to his feet and learn
  20. How freely He'll forgive,
  21. How freely he'll forgive.

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 Return, O Wanderer, Return page.

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