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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Prosperity of Sinners Cursed (Isaac Watts): 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.
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- 1Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
- To mourn, and murmur, and repine
- To see the wicked placed on high,
- In pride and robes of honor shine!
- 2But, oh, their end, their dreadful end!
- Thy sanctuary taught me so;
- On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
- And fiery billows roll below.
- 3Their fancied joys, how fast they flee!
- Like dreams, as fleeting and as vain,
- Their songs of softest harmony
- Are but a prelude to their pain.
- 4Now I esteem their mirth and wine
- Too dear to purchase with my blood;
- Lord, ’tis enough that Thou art mine,
- My life, my portion and my God.
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 Prosperity of Sinners Cursed page.
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