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Play “Tarry With Me”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Tarry With Me (Caroline L. Smith): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) in four-part harmony, 7 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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  1. 1Tarry with me, O my Savior!
  2. For the day is passing by;
  3. See! the shades of evening gather,
  4. And the night is drawing nigh.
  5. 2Deeper, deeper grow the shadows,
  6. Paler now the glowing west,
  7. Swift the night of death advances;
  8. Shall it be the night of rest?
  9. 3Lonely seems the vale of shadow;
  10. Sinks my heart with troubled fear;
  11. Give me faith for clearer vision,
  12. Speak thou, Lord, in words of cheer.
  13. 4Let me hear thy voice behind me,
  14. Calming all these wild alarms;
  15. Let me, underneath my weakness,
  16. Feel the everlasting arms.
  17. 5Feeble, trembling, fainting, dying,
  18. Lord, I cast myself on thee;
  19. Tarry with me through the darkness;
  20. While I sleep, still watch by me.
  21. 6Tarry with me, O my Savior!
  22. Lay my head upon thy breast
  23. Till the morning; then awake me!
  24. Morning of eternal rest.
  25. 7Amen.

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 Tarry With Me page.

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