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Free same-meter accompaniment for With broken heart and contrite sigh (Cornelius Elven): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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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- 1With broken heart and contrite sigh,
- A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry;
- Thy pard'ning grace is rich and free:
- O God, be merciful to me.
- 2I smite upon my troubled breast,
- With deep and conscience guilt oppressed;
- Christ and His cross my only plea:
- O God, be merciful to me.
- 3Far off I stand with tearful eyes
- Nor dare uplift them to the skies;
- But Thou dost all my anguish see:
- O God, be merciful to me.
- 4Nor alms, nor deeds that I have done,
- Can for a single sin atone;
- To Calvary alone I flee:
- O God, be merciful to me.
- 5And when, redeemed from sin and hell,
- With all the ransomed throng I dwell,
- My raptured song shall ever be,
- God has been merciful to me.
- 6Amen.
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 With broken heart and contrite sigh page.
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