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Text: | We bring you, Lord, our prayer and praise |
Author: | Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) |
Tune: | LIVERPOOL |
Arranger: | John Barnard (b. 1948) |
Composer (melody, attributed to): | M. C. H. Davis |
1 We bring you, Lord, our prayer and praise
that every child of earth
should live and grow in freedom's ways,
in dignity and worth.
2 We praise for such a task begun
to serve each other's need,
for every cause of justice won,
for every fetter freed.
3 Our prayers are for a world in pain
where force and fear prevail,
the plough becomes the sword again,
and hope and harvests fail.
4 Alike our prayer and praise express
the wants of humankind,
that those in bondage and distress
their larger freedoms find.
5 So may we still maintain the fight
till earth's oppressions cease
before the universal right
to liberty and peace.
6 In Christ we learn to love and care
and spread his truth abroad;
and in his Name we lift our prayer:
'Your kingdom come, O Lord.'
Text Information | |
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First Line: | We bring you, Lord, our prayer and praise |
Author: | Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Aid and development; Children; Deliverance(7 more...) |
Copyright: | © Timothy Dudley-Smith in Europe and Africa; © Hope Publishing Company for the United States of America and the rest of world. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. |
Notes: | May also be sung to ST FULBERT (331). |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LIVERPOOL |
Arranger: | John Barnard (b. 1948) |
Composer (melody, attributed to): | M. C. H. Davis |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Adapted from a melody attributed to M.C.H. Davis in The Southern Harmony, 1835 |
Copyright: | Arrangement: © John Barnard / The Jubilate Group. Administered by The Jubilate Group, Kitley House, St Katherines Road, Torquay TQ1 4DE |