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Play “Sinner, O, why so thoughtless grown?”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Sinner, O, why so thoughtless grown? (Isaac Watts): 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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- 1Sinner, O why so Thoughtless grown?
- Why in such dreadful Haste to die;
- Daring to leap to Worlds unknown,
- Heedless against thy God to fly?
- 2Will ye frustrate Eternal Grace,
- Urg'd on by Sin's fantastick Dreams,
- Madly attempt th'infernal Gate,
- And force thy Passage to the Flames?
- 3Stay, Sinner, on the Gospel Plains,
- Behold the God of Love unfold
- The Myst'ry of his Dying Pains,
- For ever telling, yet untold.
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 Sinner, O, why so thoughtless grown? page.
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