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Play “The Good Shepherd”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Good Shepherd (Joseph Addison): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) in four-part harmony, 3 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 MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes), a 8.8.8.8.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1The Lord my pasture shall prepare
- And feed me with a shepherd’s care;
- His presence shall my wants supply
- And guard me with a watchful eye;
- My noonday walks He shall attend
- And all my midnight hours defend.
- 2Tho' in the paths of death I tread,
- With gloomy horrors overspread,
- My steadfast heart shall fear no ill,
- For Thou, O Lord, art with me still;
- Thy friendly crook shall give me aid
- And guide me thro' the dreadful shade.
- 3Amen.
About this music
MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Good Shepherd page.
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