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Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, sing a song of harvest, of thanks for daily food! To offer God the first-fruits is old as gratitude. 2 Shall we, sometimes forgetful of where creation starts, view science as our savior, lose wonder from our hearts? 3 May God, the great Creator, to whom all life belongs, accept these gifts we offer, our service and our songs. 4 And lest the world go hungry while we ourselves are fed, make each of us more ready to share our daily bread. Topics: Times and Seasons Thanksgiving; God's World Times and Seasons: Thanksgiving; Gratitude; Offering; Harvest; Thanksgiving Day Used With Tune: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

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CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 354 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Melchior Vulpius Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13234 53654 32356 Used With Text: Come, Sing a Song of Harvest

LEBENDIGE GEMEINDE

Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Horst Gehann (1928-2007) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 55565 34571 12332 Used With Text: Come, Sing a Song of Harvest

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Come, Sing a Song of Harvest

Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #719 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 Come, sing a song of harvest, of thanks for daily food! To offer God the first-fruits is old as gratitude. 2 Shall we, sometimes forgetful of where creation starts, view science as our savior, lose wonder from our hearts? 3 May God, the great Creator, to whom all life belongs, accept these gifts we offer, our service and our songs. 4 And lest the world go hungry while we ourselves are fed, make each of us more ready to share our daily bread. Topics: Times and Seasons Thanksgiving; God's World Times and Seasons: Thanksgiving; Gratitude; Offering; Harvest; Thanksgiving Day Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Come, Sing a Song of Harvest

Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: The Presbyterian Hymnal #558 (1990) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 Come, sing a song of harvest, Of thanks for daily food! to offer God the firstfruits Is old as gratitude. 2 Shall we, sometimes forgetful Of where creation starts, View science as our savior, Lose wonder from our hearts? 3 May God, the great Creator, To whom all life belongs, Accept these gifts we offer, Our service and our songs. 4 And lest the world go hungry While we ourselves are fed, Make each of us more ready To share our daily bread. Scripture: Deuteronomy 26:1-8 Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Come, Sing a Song of Harvest

Author: Fred Pratt Green (1903-) Hymnal: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #562 (1985) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 Come, sing a song of harvest, Of thanks for daily food! To offer God the first-fruits is old as gratitude. 2 Long, long ago, the reapers, before they kept the feast, Put first-fruits in a basket, and took it to the priest. 3 Shall we, sometimes forgetful oh where creation starts, With science in our pockets lose wonder from our hearts? 4 May God, the great Creator, to whom all life belongs, Accept these gifts we offer, our service and our songs. 5 And lest the world go hungry while we ourselves are fed, Make each of us more ready to share our daily bread. Topics: Christan Life Thankfulness Tune Title: LEBENDIGE GEMEINDE

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Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Author of "Come, Sing a Song of Harvest" in The Presbyterian Hymnal The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

Melchior Vulpius

1570 - 1615 Composer of "CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Born into a poor family named Fuchs, Melchior Vulpius (b. Wasungen, Henneberg, Germany, c. 1570; d. Weimar, Germany, 1615) had only limited educational opportunities and did not attend the university. He taught Latin in the school in Schleusingen, where he Latinized his surname, and from 1596 until his death served as a Lutheran cantor and teacher in Weimar. A distinguished composer, Vulpius wrote a St. Matthew Passion (1613), nearly two hundred motets in German and Latin, and over four hundred hymn tunes, many of which became popular in Lutheran churches, and some of which introduced the lively Italian balletto rhythms into the German hymn tunes. His music was published in Cantiones Sacrae (1602, 1604), Kirchengesangund Geistliche Lieder (1604, enlarged as Ein schon geistlich Gesanglmch, 1609), and posthumously in Cantionale Sacrum (1646). Bert Polman