It’s too wet to do much else here today, so I might make a start on CWBII in Volume 2 with songs for Advent with this Charles Wesley text that I haven’t blogged before. Fair warning, if I keep to my usual behaviour I’ll persist for a while and drift to another project. My initial impressions of this collection were that it had little compelling that wasn’t available elsewhere and this public domain hymn is hardly likely to change that perception. Perhaps as I work through the collection I’ll be converted.
I got the sheet music below from Hymnary. The arrangement of STUTTGART is pretty much identical in CWBII and also lacks chord symbols, so guitarists aren’t welcomed – an appalling lack of hospitality.
Charles Wesley’s text just has just been altered in CWBII to insert “O” for “thou”.
OCP did provide chords as you can see from their sample.
I made this pretty average fake organ backing for STUTTGART in the past, which I will inflict upon the world again.
This song – WITH CHORDS – is available in The New Living Parish Hymn Book (where it was used several times); but the song can also be sung to The Servant Song, by Richard Gillard, which I think is a nicer tune. (The Servant Song is available on CCLI (#72673), and Gather Australia (#487), if anyone has access to those.)