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| Text: | Keep Thou the Door of My Lips |
| Author: | Effie C. Hill |
| Tune: | [Keep Thou the door of my lips, O Lord] |
| Composer: | Helen M. Browne |
| Composer (melody): | Derek Ferris |
1 Keep Thou the door of my lips, O Lord;
For this I ask today.
Let me be brave to speak the truth
In all the words i say.
2 Help me to speak kind words to all
When at my work and play;
May only words that please Thee, Lord,
Fall from my lips today.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Keep Thou the door of my lips, O Lord |
| Title: | Keep Thou the Door of My Lips |
| Author: | Effie C. Hill |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1962 |
| Copyright: | © 1916 Leyda Publishing Company, from "Children's Melodies" used by permission of Emma S. Dietz |
| Notes: | Now Public Domain |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | [Keep Thou the door of my lips, O Lord] |
| Composer: | Helen M. Browne |
| Composer (melody): | Derek Ferris (1961) |
| Key: | G Major or modal |
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