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Free same-meter accompaniment for The King of Love My Shepherd Is (H. W. Baker): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) in four-part harmony, 7 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1The King of love my Shepherd is,
  2. Whose goodness faileth never;
  3. I nothing lack if I am His.
  4. And He is mine forever.
  5. 2Where streams of living water flow
  6. My ransomed soul He leadeth,
  7. And, where the verdant pastures grow,
  8. With food celestial feedeth.
  9. 3Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed,
  10. But yet in love He sought me
  11. And on His shoulder gently laid,
  12. And home, rejoicing brought me.
  13. 4In death's dark vale I fear no ill
  14. With Thee, dear Lord, beside me;
  15. Thy rod and staff my comfort still,
  16. Thy Cross before to guide me.
  17. 5Thou spread'st a table in my sight;
  18. Thine unction grace bestoweth;
  19. And O, what transport and delight
  20. From Thy pure chalice floweth!
  21. 6And so through all the length of days
  22. Thy goodness faileth never;
  23. Good Shepherd! may I sing Thy praise
  24. Within Thy house forever.
  25. 7Amen.

About this music

BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The King of Love My Shepherd Is page.

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