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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Sabbath (Joseph Stennett): 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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- 1Another six days' work is done,
- Another Sabbath is begun;
- Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
- Improve the day that God has blessed.
- 2Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns
- So sweet a rest to weary minds;
- A blessed antepast is giv'n,
- On this day more than all the sev'n.
- 3O that our thoughts and thanks may rise
- As grateful incense to the skies,
- And draw from Christ that sweet repose
- Which none but he who feels it knows.
- 4This heav'nly calm within the breast
- Is the best pledge of glorious rest,
- Which for the church of God remains,
- The end of cares, the end of pains.
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 Sabbath page.
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