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Play “The Night Cometh”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Night Cometh (George W. Doane): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Softly now the light of day
- Fades upon my sight away;
- Free from care, from labor free,
- Lord, I would commune with Thee.
- 2Thou, whose all-pervading eye
- Naught escapes, without, within,
- Pardon each infirmity,
- Open fault and secret sin.
- 3Soon for me the light of day
- Shall forever pass away;
- Then from sin and sorrow free,
- Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee.
- 4Thou, who sinless, yet hast known
- All of man's infirmity,
- Then from Thine eternal throne,
- Jesus, look with pitying eye.
- 5Amen.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Night Cometh page.
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