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Free accompaniment for 'Twas on That Dark, That Doleful Night (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. CROSS (John Bacchus Dykes) 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.
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- 1'Twas on that dark, that doleful night,
- When powers of earth and hell arose
- Against the Son of God's delight,
- And friends betrayed Him to His foes.
- 2Before the mournful scene began,
- He took the bread, and blessed, and brake;
- What love through all His actions ran!
- What wondrous words of grace He spake!
- 3"This is my body, broke for sin;
- Receive and eat the living food:"
- Then took the cup and blessed the wine;
- "'Tis the new covenant in my blood."
- 4"Do this," He said, "till time shall end,
- In mem'ry of your dying Friend
- Meet at my table and record
- The love of your departed Lord."
- 5Jesus, Thy feast we celebrate;
- We show Thy death; we sing Thy name,
- Till Thou return, and we shall eat
- The marriage supper of the Lamb.
About this music
ST. CROSS — John Bacchus Dykes. 'St. Cross' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869 Hymn 100, composed for this hymnal. Can find the text in Gems of sacred poetry By William Bingham Tappan, 1860 edition; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the 'Twas on That Dark, That Doleful Night page.
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