Gird your loins about with truth (Joseph Barnby)

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• (Posted 2018-11-19)  CPDL #52170:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-11-19).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from the edition on IMSLP. Note values halved.

General Information

Title: Gird your loins about with truth
Tune: Monteith
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: Walter Chalmer Smith

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 777. 3

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 in Hymn Tunes, no. 105, p. 59
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Original text and translations

English text

1  Gird your loins about with truth; Life will not go always smooth, Singing lightsome songs of youth: Play, play the man. 2  Learn with justice to keep pace, Spurning what is vile and base; Bravely ever set your face To play the man.

3  Fear not what the world may say, Hold the strait and narrow way In the open light of day, And play the man. 4  They will call you poor and weak, Being merciful and meek: Heed them not; so you must seek To play the man.

5  Have the courage to be true, Steadfastly the right to do, Loving him that wrongeth you: Play, play the man. 6  Trust in God, and let them mock; They will break, as they have broke, Like the waves upon the rock: Play, play the man!