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Free same-meter accompaniment for Wrestling Jacob (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) 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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  1. 1Come, O Thou Traveller unknown,
  2. Whom still I hold, but cannot see!
  3. My company before is gone,
  4. And I am left alone with Thee;
  5. With Thee all night I mean to stay,
  6. And wrestle till the break of day.
  7. 2I need not tell Thee who I am,
  8. My misery and sin declare;
  9. Thyself hast called me by my name,
  10. Look on Thy hands, and read it there;
  11. But who, I ask Thee, who art Thou?
  12. Tell me Thy name, and tell me now.
  13. 3In vain Thou strugglest to get free,
  14. I never will unloose my hold!
  15. Art Thou the man that died for me?
  16. The secret of Thy love unfold;
  17. Wrestling, I will not let Thee go,
  18. Till I Thy name, Thy nature know.
  19. 4Wilt Thou not yet to me reveal
  20. Thy new, unutterable name?
  21. Tell me, I still beseech Thee, tell;
  22. To know it now resolved I am;
  23. Wrestling, I will not let Thee go,
  24. Till I Thy name, Thy nature know.
  25. 5'Tis Love! 'tis Love! Thou diest for me!
  26. I hear Thy whisper in my heart;
  27. The morning breaks, the shadows flee,
  28. Pure, universal love Thou art:
  29. To me, to all, Thy mercies move,
  30. Thy nature and Thy name is Love.

About this music

MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Wrestling Jacob page.

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