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Text: | Guide My Feet |
Tune: | GUIDE MY FEET |
Harmonizer: | Wendell P. Whalum |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Guide my feet while I run this race;
guide my feet while I run this race;
guide my feet while I run this race,
for I don't want to run this race in vain!
2 Hold my hand while I run this race;
hold my hand while I run this race;
hold my hand while I run this race,
for I don't want to run this race in vain!
3 Stand by me while I run this race;
stand by me while I run this race;
stand by me while I run this race,
for I don't want to run this race in vain!
4 I'm your child while I run this race;
I'm your child while I run this race;
I'm your child while I run this race,
for I don't want to run this race in vain!
5 Search my heart while I run this race;
search my heart while I run this race;
search my heart while I run this race,
for I don't want to run this race in vain!
6 Guide my feet while I run this race;
guide my feet while I run this race;
guide my feet while I run this race,
for I don't want to run this race in vain!
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First Line: | Guide my feet while I run this race |
Title: | Guide My Feet |
Meter: | 8.8.8.10 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Discipleship and Mission; Guidance |
Source: | African American spiritual |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GUIDE MY FEET |
Harmonizer: | Wendell P. Whalum (1984 c.) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.10 |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Source: | African American spiritual |
Copyright: | Harm. © Estate of Wendell P. Whalum |
This African American spiritual is based on the imagery of “the race that is set before us” in Hebrews 12:1–2. Its call-and-response structure allows for the improvisation and addition of stanzas related to an athletic metaphor that is as vivid today as it was centuries ago.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |