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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Great Teacher (John Bowring): 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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- 1How sweetly flowed the gospel sound
- From lips of gentleness and grace,
- When listening thousands gathered round,
- And joy and gladness filled the place!
- 2From heaven he came, of heaven he spoke,
- To heaven he led his followers' way;
- Dark clouds of gloomy night he broke,
- Unvailing an immortal day.
- 3"Come, wanderers, to my Father's home,
- Come, all ye weary ones, and rest;"
- Yes, sacred Teacher, we will come,
- Obey thee, love thee, and be blest!
- 4Decay then, tenements of dust;
- Pillars of earthly pride, decay:
- A nobler mansion waits the just,
- And Jesus has prepared the way.
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 Great Teacher page.
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