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Free same-meter accompaniment for Watchfulness and Brotherly Love (Isaac Watts): 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.
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- 1My God, accept my early vows,
- Like morning incense in thine house;
- And let my nightly worship rise
- Sweet as the evening sacrifice.
- 2Watch o'er my lips, and guard them, Lord,
- From every rash and heedless word;
- Nor let my feet incline to tread
- The guilty path where sinners lead.
- 3O may the righteous, when I stray,
- Smite, and reprove my wand'ring way!
- Their gentle words, like ointment shed,
- Shall never bruise, but cheer my head.
- 4When I behold them pressed with grief,
- I'll cry to heav'n for their relief;
- And by my warm petitions prove
- How much I prize their faithful love.
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 Watchfulness and Brotherly Love page.
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