The fun comes when someone asks for something they can remember from school days some sixty years past and they tell you it went like:
'dum de dum , de dum de dum,
Jesus keep me in thy sight, and guard me,
through the coming night.'
Now I know there will be many who have reached for their buzzers to place the answer 'The day is past and over' (setting St Antolius) but for many of us who weren't doing church before the second world war - it is a struggle.
Another recent struggle was found in the words, 'Lamb of God, Redeemer Blessed grant them your eternal rest.'
Ideas anyone (there is a prize ;-))
And here's part of the resource department:
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I put those lines into google and came up with a likely contender on www.historichrichhymns.com The first line is Lord to whom the spirits live.
Anc and Mod 1922 ed no 748.
Any good?
Metre of words is 88.88.88, suggested tunes at historichymns.com are Barragh (John Chetham, Book of Psalmody, 1718) (as KirstenM suggests), or Christcurch (Rev Sir Frederic A G Ouseley). Cyberhymnal adds South Cerney (WH Hadow, English Hymnal 1906 number 359).
Hmmm, interesting ;-)
I'll leave it to soak a little longer
How about 486 (A&M 1950) - the Samuel Wesley hymn:
O Lord, to whom the spirits live?
The line being:
O Lamb of God, Redeemer Blest,
Grant them eternal light and rest.
Set to Brecknock 88.88.88
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