Drop, Drop Slow Tears Top Pick

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Description

For 2 part mixed choir and keyboard (organ or piano) - an immediately useful setting of Gibbon's tune Psalm 46 with the text by Phineas Fletcher.  The accompaniment provides interest and the vocal parts are easily managed - this can even be sung by two singers.  The recording was made live and differs slightly from the printed version.  If you are looking for a more straightforward setting, we have one available in 4 parts.  Learning Tracks are available for this piece and are accessible from the last page of the downloaded .pdf.

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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet, which brought from heaven the news and Prince of Peace.
Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; to cry for vengeance sin doth never cease.
In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears; nor let his eye see sin, but through my tears.