Key: C
Introduction:
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Lord, who throughout these for-ty days,
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For us did fast and pray,
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Teach us with you to o-vercome our sins
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And close by you to stay.
verse 2
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As you with Satan did con-tend,
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and did the victory win,
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O give us strength in you to fight,
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in you to conquer sin.
verse 3
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As you did hunger and did thirst,
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so teach us, gracious Lord,
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to die to self, and so to live
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by your most ho - ly Word.
verse 4
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And through these days of pen-i-tence,
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and through your Passiontide,
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forevermore, in life and death,
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O Lord, with us a bide.
Verse 5
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A - bide with us, that through this life
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of doubts and hope and pain,
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an Easter of unending joy
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we may at last at-tain!