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Play “Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleep”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleep (Henry Ustick Onderdonk): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleep,
- Wake, and o'er thy folly weep;
- Raise thy spirit dark and dead,
- Jesus waits His light to shed.
- 2Wake from sleep, arise from death,
- See the bright and living path;
- Watchful tread that path; be wise,
- Leave thy folly, seek the skies.
- 3Leave thy folly, cease from crime,
- From this hour redeem thy time;
- Life secure without delay,
- Evil is the mortal day.
- 4Be not blind and foolish still;
- Call'd of Jesus, learn His will:
- Jesus calls from death and night,
- Jesus waits to shed His light.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleep page.
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