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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Good Physician (John Newton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle) 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 ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle), a 7.6.7.6 D tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1How lost was my condition,
  2. Till Jesus made me whole,
  3. There is but one Physician
  4. Can cure a sin-sick soul.
  5. There is a balm in Gilead,
  6. To make the wounded whole,
  7. There's pow'r enough in Jesus,
  8. To cure a sin-sick soul.
  9. 2The worst of all diseases
  10. Is light, compared with sin;
  11. On ev'ry part it seizes,
  12. But rages most within.
  13. There is a balm in Gilead,
  14. To make the wounded whole,
  15. There's pow'r enough in Jesus,
  16. To cure a sin-sick soul.
  17. 3'Tis palsy, plague, and fever,
  18. And madness all combined,
  19. And none but a believer,
  20. The least relief can find.
  21. There is a balm in Gilead,
  22. To make the wounded whole,
  23. There's pow'r enough in Jesus,
  24. To cure a sin-sick soul.
  25. 4A dying, risen Jesus
  26. Seen by the eye of faith,
  27. At once from danger frees us
  28. And saves the soul from death.
  29. There is a balm in Gilead,
  30. To make the wounded whole,
  31. There's pow'r enough in Jesus,
  32. To cure a sin-sick soul.
  33. 5Come then to this Physician,
  34. His help He'll freely give,
  35. He makes no hard condition,
  36. 'Tis only look and live.
  37. There is a balm in Gilead,
  38. To make the wounded whole,
  39. There's pow'r enough in Jesus,
  40. To cure a sin-sick soul.

About this music

ELLACOMBE — Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle. Setting: Presbyterian Hymnal, 1911.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Presbyterian Hymnal, Revised, 1911 Hymn 364.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Good Physician page.

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