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Play “The Saint Happy, the Sinner Miserable”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Saint Happy, the Sinner Miserable (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) in four-part harmony, 6 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 ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1The man is ever blessed,
- Who shuns the sinners' ways;
- Amongst their counsels never stands,
- Nor takes the scorners' place.
- 2But makes the Law of God
- His study and delight
- Amidst the labors of the day
- And watches of the night.
- 3He like a tree shall thrive,
- With waters near the root:
- Fresh as the leaf His name shall live,
- His works are heav'nly fruit.
- 4Not so th'ungodly race:
- They no such blessings find;
- Their hopes shall flee like empty chaff
- Before the driving wind.
- 5How will they bear to stand
- Before the judgment-seat,
- Where all the saints at Christ's right hand
- In full assembly meet?
- 6He knows and He approves
- The way the righteous go;
- But sinners and their works shall meet
- A dreadful overflow.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Saint Happy, the Sinner Miserable page.
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