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Free same-meter accompaniment for Universal Praise to God (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1Loud hallelujahs to the Lord,
- From distant worlds where creatures dwell,
- Let heav'n begin the solemn word,
- And sound it dreadful down to hell.
- 2High on a throne His glories dwell,
- An awful throne of shining bliss:
- Fly through the world, O sun! and tell
- How dark thy beams compared to His.
- 3Let clouds and winds, and waves agree
- To join their praise with blazing fire;
- Let the firm earth and rolling sea,
- In this eternal song conspire.
- 4Wide as His vast dominion lies,
- Make the Creator's name be known:
- Loud as His thunder, shout His praise,
- And sound it lofty as His throne.
- 5Jehovah--'tis a glorious word!
- O, may it dwell on every tongue!
- But saints, who best have known the Lord,
- Are bound to raise the noblest song.
- 6Speak of the wonders of that love
- Which Gabriel plays on every chord:
- From all below, and all above,
- Loud hallelujahs to the Lord.
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 Universal Praise to God page.
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