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Free same-meter accompaniment for Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life (Frank Mason North): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1Where cross the crowded ways of life,
- Where sound the cries of race and clan,
- Above the noise of selfish strife,
- We hear Thy voice, O Son of Man.
- 2In haunted of wretchedness and need,
- On shadowed thresholds dark with fears,
- From paths where hide the lures of greed,
- We catch the vision of Thy tears.
- 3From tender childhood's helplessness,
- From woman's grief, man's burdened toil,
- From famished souls from sorrow's stress,
- Thy heart has never known recoil.
- 4O Master, from the mountain side,
- Make haste to heal these hearts of pain;
- Among these restless throngs abide,
- O tread the city's streets again;
- 5Till sons of men shall learn Thy love,
- And follow where Thy feet have trod;
- Till glorious from Thy heav'n above,
- Shall come the City of our God.
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 Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life page.
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