I have already looked at this text when covering OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book, but in CWB it is set to DAY OF PRAISE instead of the commoner setting of ST THOMAS, and the text has been altered by the editors – really just modernised but not condensed and rearranged like at OCP. The words are by, or attributed, to James Montgomery and are based on Psalm 102 (103).
DAY OF PRAISE is by Charles Steggall. I got chords from TIS for my backing. I think this tune does a very good job of saving the text from the risk of bland versifying.
This is the CWB text:
1 O bless the Lord, my soul, his saving grace proclaim,
And all that is within me join to bless his holy name.
2 O bless the Lord, my soul, his mercies bear in mind,
Forget not all his benefits: the Lord to me is kind.
3 He will not always chide; He will with patience wait;
His wrath is ever slow to rise, and ready to abate.
4 He pardons all my sins, prolongs my feeble breath,
He heals all my infirmities, and ransoms me from death.
5 He clothes me his love, upholds me with his truth,
And like an eagle he renews the vigour of my youth.
6 Then bless his holy name whose grace has made me whole,
Whose loving kindness crowns my days, O bless the Lord , my soul.
