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Thread #124545   Message #3276484
Posted By: Mr Happy
19-Dec-11 - 08:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins:How Great Thou Art - anybody know Swedish?
Subject: RE: How Great Thou Art - anybody know Swedish?
Swedish tune titled, O STORE GUD

X: 1
T: How Great Thou Art
C: Old Swedish folk tune
P: English words: Stuart K Hine 1899
N: Translated (more or less) from the Swedish lyrics by Carl Boberg in 1886.
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Bb
V: 1
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w: 1.~O Lord my God, when I in awe-some won-der Con-sid-er
w: 2.~When thru the woods and for-est glades I wan-der And hear the
w: 3.~And when I think that God, His Son not spar-ing, Sent him to
w: 4.~When Christ shall come with shout of ac-cla-ma-tion And take me
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w: all the works Thy hands have made, I see the start, I hear the might-y
w: birds sing sweet-ly in the trees, When I look down from loft-y moun-tain
w: die, I scarce can take it in, That on the cross, my bur-den glad-ly
w: home, what joy shall fill my heart! Then I shall bow in hhum-ble ad-o-
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w: thun-der, Thy pow'r thru-out the un-i-verse dis-played!
w: brand-eur And hear the brook and feel the gen-tle breeze,
w: bear-ing, He bled and died to take a-way my sin!
w: ra-tion And there pro-claim, my God, how great Thou art!
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w: Then sings my soul, my Sav-ior, God, to Thee; How great Thou
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w: art, how great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Sav-ior, God, to
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w: Thee; How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
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