Heavenly Father, Hear My Prayer

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Heavenly Father, hear my prayer. Day and night I'm in Thy care

Author: Anonymous
Tune: O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE (Thommen)
Published in 4 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Three Hymns of the Moravian Tradition

Representative Text

Heav'nly Father, hear my prayer.
Day and night I'm in Thy care.
Bless my friends and family
Let my home have room for Thee;
Bless al those with whom I play;
Help us love Thee every day.

Amen.

Source: Sing for Joy: a songbook for young children #124

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Author: Anonymous

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First Line:	Heavenly Father, hear my prayer. Day and night I'm in Thy care
Title:	Heavenly Father, Hear My Prayer
Author:	Anonymous
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE (Thommen)

Originally a folk song ("Sollen nun die grünen Jahre") dating from around 1700, O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE was used as a hymn tune in the Catholic hymnal Bambergisches Gesangbuch (1732). The tune name is the incipit of the text to which it was set in Johann Thommen's Erbaulicher Musicalischer Christen…

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ARFON (Minor)

ARFON is originally a six-phrase Welsh folk tune in minor tonality entitled 'Tros y Garreg." Named for a district on the mainland of northern Wales opposite Mon and Anglesey, the tune was published in Edward Jones's Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). In the later nineteenth century ARFON was associa…

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