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Free same-meter accompaniment for Sweet the Moments (James Allen; Walter Shirley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) 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 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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- 1Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,
- Which before the cross we spend;
- Life and health and peace possessing
- From the sinner's dying Friend.
- Truly blessed is this station,
- Low before His cross to lie,
- While we see divine compassion
- Beaming in His gracious eye.
- 2Love and grief our hearts dividing,
- With our tears His feet we bathe;
- Constant still, in faith abiding,
- Life deriving from His death.
- For Thy sorrows we adore Thee,
- For the pains that wrought our peace;
- Gracious Savior, we implore Thee,
- In our souls Thy love increase.
- 3Here we feel our sins forgiven,
- while upon the Lamb we gaze;
- Here our tho'ts are all of heaven,
- And our lips o'erflow with praise.
- Lord, in loving contemplation
- Fix our hearts and eyes on Thee,
- Till we taste Thy full salvation
- And, unveiled, Thy glories see.
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 Sweet the Moments page.
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