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You Hear the Lambs A-Cryin'
Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: My Savior spoke these words so sweet Text Sources: Traditional spiritual
You Hear the Lambs A-Cryin'
[My Savior spoke these words so sweet]
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Verolga Nix (b. 1933) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 31332 31133 21713 Used With Text: You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'
[My Savior spoke these words so sweet]
You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'
Hymnal: Lift Every Voice and Sing II #110 (1993) First Line: My Savior spoke these words so sweet Lyrics: Refrain:
You hear the lambs a-cryin’,
hear the lambs a-cryin’,
hear the lambs a-cryin’
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
1 My Savior spoke these words so sweet,
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
sayin’ Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep.”
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]
2 O Lord, I love thee, thou dost know;
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
O give me grace to love thee more.
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]
3 O wasn’t that an awful shame?
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
He hung three hours in mortal pain.
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain] Topics: Hymns and Songs Jesus Christ our Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [My Savior spoke these words so sweet]
You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'
You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'
Hymnal: Songs of Zion #128 (1981) First Line: My Savior spoke these words so sweet Lyrics: Refrain:
You hear the lambs a-cryin’,
hear the lambs a cryin’,
hear the lambs a-cryin,’
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
You hear the lambs a-cryin’,
hear the lambs a cryin’,
hear the lambs a-cryin’,
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
1 My Savior spoke these words so sweet,
O Shepherd, feed my sheep,
sayin’, "Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep.”
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]
2 O Lord, I love Thee, Thou dost know;
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
O give me grace to love Thee more.
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]
3 Wasn’t that an awful shame?
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
He hung three hours in mortal pain.
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]
Topics: Negro Spirituals and Afro-American Liberation Songs Languages: English Tune Title: [My Savior spoke these words so sweet]
You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'
You Hear the Lambs A-Cryin'
Hymnal: Songs of Light #5 (1977) First Line: My Savior spoke these words so sweet Topics: Mission and Outreach Languages: English Tune Title: [My Savior spoke these words so sweet]
You Hear the Lambs A-Cryin'
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Arranger of "YOU HEAR THE LAMBS" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
Verolga Nix
1933 - 2014 Person Name: Verolga Nix (b. 1933) Harmonizer of "[My Savior spoke these words so sweet]" in Lift Every Voice and Sing II Verolga Nix (Apr. 6, 1933-Dec. 9, 2014) Born in Cleveland, Verolga moved with her family at an early age to Philadelphia. She studied for two years at New England Conservatory of Music and then earned a music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1955. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Bennett College in 2000. After retiring from twenty years as a full-time music teacher in Philadelphia public schools she served as minister of music at several churches in Philadelphia, trained and conducted many choirs and served as a seminar leader nationwide. She was a member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), National Association of Negro Musicians and the Hymn Society in U.S. and Canada. In 1980 the United Methodist Church asked her to co-edit with J. Jefferson Cleveland the supplemental hymnal Songs of Zion. She published nearly 200 original songs an arrangements.
(further details in The Philadelphia Tribune, Dec.19, 2014 obituary).
Mary Louise VanDyke
Verolga Nix
