Virtual accompanist
Play “We Bid Thee Welcome in the Name”
Free same-meter accompaniment for We Bid Thee Welcome in the Name (James Montgomery): 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.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
Choir part trainer (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
Solo or mute a part, raise your own part, slow it down, or loop one line until you have it.
Press Play once to choose a line to loop.
- 1We bid thee welcome, in the name
- Of Jesus, our exalted Head:
- Come as a servant, so He came,
- And we receive thee in His stead.
- 2Come as a shepherd; guard and keep
- This fold from hell, and earth, and sin,
- Nourish the lambs, and feed the sheep
- The wounded heal, the lost bring in.
- 3Come as a teacher, sent from God,
- Charged His whole counsel to declare;
- Lift o’er our ranks the prophet’s rod,
- While we uphold thy hands with prayer.
- 4Come as a messenger of peace,
- Filled with the Spirit, fired with love;
- Live to behold our large increase,
- And die to meet us all above.
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 We Bid Thee Welcome in the Name page.
Played in your browser with instrument sounds from the FluidR3 soundfont by Frank Wen (MIT license). No recordings are used.