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Free same-meter accompaniment for Save, O Save Me (Anonymous): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Take my heart, O Father! take it;
- Make and keep it all thine own;
- Let thy Spirit melt and break it
- This proud heart of sin and stone.
- 2Father, make me pure and lowly,
- Fond of peace and far from strife;
- Turning from the paths unholy
- Of this vain and sinful life.
- 3Ever let thy grace surround me,
- Strengthen me with power divine,
- Till thy cords of love have bound me:
- Make me to be wholly thine.
- 4May the blood of Jesus heal me,
- And my sins be all forgiven;
- Holy Spirit, take and seal me,
- Guide me in the path to heaven.
About this music
BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Save, O Save Me page.
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