There are two songs in my "oratorio" to the Swedish folk tune Du (or O) Store Gud, to which "How great Thou art" is generally sung; the last line of the first one needs to be slightly elongated to accommodate the text:

WHAT SHALL WE DO?

(Leland Bryant Ross)

(Phœnician Sailors #1 and #3+)
What shall we do? Our doom is night upon us.
Some one of us has brought us fortune ill.
Go wake that Jew, and make him pray among us;
Perchance his god may save us if he will.

(Sailor #2)

Hey, let's draw straws to see who is to blame

For our impending wet demise,

Yes, let's draw straws and learn the culprit's name

And make him fish-food right before our very eyes.


Part (preceding Jonah 1:8) of my "comic worship oratorio" Jonah was a prophet (minor), 1997, © Liland Brajant Ros'

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O LORD, MY GOD, HOW COULD YOU BE SO THOUGHTLESS

(Leland Bryant Ross)

(Jonah)
O LORD, my God, how could You be so thoughtless,
So soft of heart, forgiving and so kind?
How could You, LORD? They'll think you spineless, gutless!
I should have known, O God, O—never mind!

Why should I care to live in shame like this!

Why, LORD, O why? I'd rather die!

I fled your call in fear of fame like this!

Is vengeance Thine? Well, You're a Wuss!

Part (following Jonah 4:5) of my "comic worship oratorio" Jonah was a prophet (minor), 1997, © Liland Brajant Ros'

I'm sure you can get a MIDI from The Cyber Hymnal, if you dig for it.

LBR