Lyr Req: The Love of God

Subject: The Love of God
From: lloyd64
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 09:06 AM

The love of God, how rich and pure....

This was requested at my last Gig ("Singing", as we call them in North Carolina), can anyone help?

lloyd62

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Love of God
From: Wolfgang
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 09:21 AM

from the Cyber hymnal: Love of God

Wolfgang

Subject: Lyr Add: THE LOVE OF GOD (Frederick Martin Lehman)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 10:04 AM

.... which has it like this:

THE LOVE OF GOD
by Frederick Martin Lehman

Based on Romans 8:35:
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.


Refrain:
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints' and angels' song.


When years of time shall pass away, and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray, on rocks and hills and mountains call,
God's love so sure, shall still endure, all measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam's race—the saints' and angels' song.

Refrain

Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.

Refrain



SOURCE: CYBER HYMNAL

NOTES:
Frederick Martin Lehman wrote this song in 1917 in Pasadena, California, and it was published in Songs That Are Different, Volume 2, 1919. The lyrics are based on the Jewish poem Hadamut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, a cantor in Worms, Germany; they have been translated into at least 18 languages.
Music: "Love of God," Frederick M. Lehman; arranged by Claudia Lehman Mays (the author's daughter).

MIDI at Cyber Hymnal as linked above.

SH

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Love of God
From: lloyd64
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 11:31 AM

Thats it!!!!!!

Thanks to you both.

and for the record I was told it is not a Singing but a singen.

lloyd62

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Love of God
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 11:51 AM

My pleasure. Lovely words. Can't hear it on this computer but I bet it's wonderful.

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Love of God
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 11:41 AM

A lovely alternate version of the words can be heard on A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, sung by Garrison Keillor and the Durango Children's Chorale. The show credits indicate:

new words: Garrison Keillor (c) 1998 Garrison Keillor

The words are pretty unclear as I hear them here. Can anyone help hear them or find them?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Love of God
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Mar 04 - 11:20 PM

Here's my attempt. I think I got part of it right, anyway.

LOVE OF GOD
(As sung by Garrison Keillor and the Durango Children's Chorale)

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star
Down to the depth where sinners (?) fell
'Tis not for labor, love or men (?)
These mercies we receive.
His love has found its fertile ground
If we will but believe.

CHORUS: O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints' and angels' song (?).

But love is in the hills around.
It calls us from the evening breeze.
In fields and meadows it resounds
Beyond our mortal boundaries.
[Next 4 lines unintelligible.]

CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Love of God
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Mar 04 - 11:50 PM

Thanks. That gives me enough to take another whack at it, unless someone else would like to....

~Susan