The Wind That Stirs the Sea to Sing

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The wind that stirs the sea to sing

Author: Thomas H. Troeger
Tune: MCKEE
ONE LICENSE: 101919
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Piano/Organ
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Author: Thomas H. Troeger

Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The wind that stirs the sea to sing
Title:	The Wind That Stirs the Sea to Sing
Author:	Thomas H. Troeger
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 2015, Oxford University Press

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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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