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Play “Welcome Cross”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Welcome Cross (William Cowper): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1"Tis my happiness below
- Not to live without the cross,
- But the Saviour's power to know,
- Sanctifying every loss.
- 2Trials must and will befall;
- But with humble faith to see
- Love inscribed upon them all,
- This is happiness to me.
- 3God in Israel sows the seeds
- Of affliction, pain and toil;
- These spring up and choke the weeds
- Which would else o'erspread the soil.
- 4Did I meet no trials here,
- No chastisement by the way,
- Might I not with reason fear
- I should prove a castaway?
- 5Trials make the promise sweet;
- Trials give new life to prayer;
- Trials bring me to his feet,
- Lay me low, and keep me there.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Welcome Cross page.
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