The Reign of God

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The reign of God, like farmer's field

Author: Delores Dufner
Tune: MCKEE
Published in 6 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	EARLY AMERICAN FOLK HYMNS FOR ORGAN (A C…

Choral
	Reign of God, The

Instrumental
	Sing It Simply (25 Congregational Hymn A…

Author: Delores Dufner

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First Line:	The reign of God, like farmer's field
Title:	The Reign of God
Author:	Delores Dufner
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1995, 2003, GIA Publications, Inc.

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Tune

MCKEE

MC KEE has an interesting history. According to a letter from Charles V. Stanford (PHH 512) to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (who arranged the tune for piano in his Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, 1905), MC KEE was originally an Irish tune taken to the United States and adapted by African American slaves. It…

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LAND OF REST (American)

LAND OF REST is an American folk tune with roots in the ballads of northern England and Scotland. It was known throughout the Appalachians; a shape-note version of the tune was published in The Sacred Harp (1844) and titled NEW PROSPECT as the setting for "O land of rest! for thee I sigh." The tune…

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