I Call, LORD, Each Day

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Text Information

First Line: LORD, you are the God who saves me; Day and night I cry out to you
Title: I Call, LORD, Each Day
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I call, LORD, each day
Notes: Responsive refrain to chanting or reading of Psalm 88, tone included
Copyright: © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.

Tune

WONDROUS LOVE (Southern Harmony)

WONDROUS LOVE was first set to this text in William Walker's (PsH 44) second edition of Southern Harmony (1840). Publication of the hymn in B. F. White's The Sacred Harp (1844) further promoted the combination of text and tune. The meter of "What Wondrous Love" derives from an old English ballad abo…

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THIRD MODE MELODY

THIRD MODE MELODY is the third of nine tunes Thomas Tallis composed for Matthew Parker's The Whole Psalter (c. 1561). This magnificent tune is worth the trouble it may take to learn. Diephouse set the text with this tune in mind, since it kept coming to him as he was working on the text. Many may kn…

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Christian Worship #88B

Christian Worship #88C

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