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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Beatitudes (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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- 1Blest are the humble souls that see
- Their emptiness and poverty;
- Treasures of grace to them are giv'n,
- And crowns of joy laid up in heav'n.
- 2Blest are the men of broken heart,
- Who mourn for sin with inward smart;
- The blood of Christ divinely flows,
- A healing balm for all their woes.
- 3Blest are the souls who thirst for grace,
- Hunger and thirst for righteousness;
- They should be well supplied and fed
- With living streams and living bread.
- 4Blest are the men of peaceful life,
- Who quench the glowing coals of strife;
- They shall be called the heirs of bliss,
- The sons of God, the God of peace.
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 The Beatitudes page.
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