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Text:O Father, You Are Sovereign
Author:Margaret Clarkson
Tune:AURELIA
Composer:Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Media:MIDI file

4795. O Father, You Are Sovereign

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Text Information
First Line: O Father, You are sovereign
Title: O Father, You Are Sovereign
Author: Margaret Clarkson (1980)
Meter: 76.76 D
Language: English
Source: These lyrics won a hymn writing contest in Christianity Today.
Copyright: © 1980 Hope Publishing Company, 380 South Main Place, Carol Stream, IL 60188 (800-323-1049). Used by permission.
ONE LICENSE: 55682
Notes: These lyrics won a hymn writing contest in Christianity Today. Alternate tune: ST. THEODULPH, Melchior Teschner, in Ein andächtiges Gebet (Leipzig, Germany: 1615)
Tune Information
Name: AURELIA
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1864)
Meter: 76.76 D
Incipit: 33343 32116 54345
Key: E Major
Source: Se­lect­ion of Psalms and Hymns, by C. Kem­ble, 1864
Copyright: Public Domain



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