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Play “That Awful Day Will Surely Come”
Free same-meter accompaniment for That Awful Day Will Surely Come (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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 ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1That awful day will surely come,
- Th' appointed hour makes haste,
- When I must stand before my Judge,
- And pass the solemn test.
- 2Jesus, thou source of all my joys,
- Thou ruler of my heart,
- How could I bear to hear thy voice
- Pronounce the word, Depart!
- 3What! to be banished from my Lord,
- To rocks and mountains cry!
- And yet to them must call in vain;
- For who his wrath can fly?
- 4O, wretched state of deep despair,
- To see my God remove,
- And fix my doleful station where
- I cannot taste his love!
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the That Awful Day Will Surely Come page.
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