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Play “Walking with God”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Walking with God (William Cowper): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1O for a closer walk with God,
- A calm and heav'nly frame;
- A light to shine upon the road
- That leads me to the Lamb!
- 2Return, O holy Dove, return,
- Sweet messenger of rest;
- I hate the sins that made Thee mourn,
- And drove Thee from my breast.
- 3The dearest idol I have known,
- Whate'er that idol be,
- Help me to tear it from Thy throne
- And worship only Thee.
- 4So shall my walk be close with God,
- Calm and serene my frame;
- So purer light shall mark the road
- That leads me to the Lamb!
- 5Amen.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Walking with God page.
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