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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Christian Race (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1Awake, our souls, away our fears;
- Let every trembling thought be gone.
- Awake, and run the heavenly race,
- And put a cheerful courage on.
- 2True, 'tis a strait and thorny road,
- And mortal spirits tire and faint;
- But they forget the mighty God,
- Who feeds the strength of every saint.
- 3The mighty God, whose matchless power,
- Is ever new and ever young,
- And firm endures, while endless years
- Their everlasting cycles run.
- 4From Thee, the ever-flowing Spring,
- Our souls shall drink a fresh supply;
- While such as trust their native strength
- Shall melt away, and droop, and die.
- 5Swift as an eagle cuts the air,
- We'll mount aloft to Thine abode;
- On wings of love our sols shall fly,
- Nor tire amid the heavenly road.
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 Christian Race page.
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