Liland -It would take 2 minutes for me to let you hear how 'O for a Thousand Tongues; goes to Lyngham. It wll take a bit longer to do it by typing.
In my (basically Nonconformist) circles, Lyngham is the normal tune for this hymn. It is so set in Mission Praise (ISBN 0 551 01092 4)and in Songs of Fellowship (ISBN 0 86065 936 4). Mission Praise doesn't have the words lined up with the music, whereas Songs of Fellowship does. If you already have the words and the music, Mission Praise won't give you anything new.
Lyngham is designated as C.M. in The Baptist Hymnbook (where 'Come Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs' is set to it), and as 8 6 8 6 Extended in Mission Praise. I'm curious as to what you normally sing to Lyngham - is it a Common Meter hymn ?
I suppose the problem with fitting the words to the tune is that there are more tune lines than word lines. The solution is that some of the lines are repeated. Doing my best to show where sylabbles are extended, it is sung as follows:
O for a tho-o-o-o-ou-sand to-ongues to-o sing
My great Redeemer's praise
My gre-e-e-e-eat Redeemer's praise
The glories o-o-of my Go-od a-and King
The triumphs of his grace
The triumphs of his grace
The triumphs of his grace
The triumphs of his grace
This missing out the echo sung by the ladies under 'the triumphs of his grace, displaced by half a bar, and the full-blooded singing from an enthusiastic congregation that the words demand.Does that make any sense? If not, send me your e-mail address by personal message, and I'll somehow get a copy to you.
The Baptist Hymnbook (sorry, no ISBN, my copy predates the system, used to be published by the Psalm and Hymn Trust, London) sets O for a Thousand Tongues to University and to Lydia. I don't like Lydia so much, and I'm not as familiar with it, but using the same sort of notation as above:
O for a tho-o-ousand tongues to-o sing My gre-at re-ede-e-emer's praise The glories of my God and ki-i-ing The triumphs of his gra-a-a-ace The tri-i-i-umphs o-of hi-is grace
Hope that helps.
Bradypus