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God Be in My Head

God be in my head, and in my understanding

Tune: GOD BE IN MY HEAD (Davies)
Published in 67 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI, Recording

Representative Text

God be in my head, and in my thinking.
God be in my eyes, and in my looking.
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking.
Oh, God be in my heart, and in my understanding.

Source: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: an African American ecumenical hymnal #164

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #1712
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 31 of 31)
Text

Ancient and Modern #642

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #235

Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #631

Text

Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #538

TextPage Scan

Common Praise #439

Text

Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #211

TextPage Scan

CPWI Hymnal #526

Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition #236

Hymns and Psalms #694

Text

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #543

Text

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #538

Hymns Old and New #166

Text

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #164

Page Scan

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #175

Tune InfoText

Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #678

Text

Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #679

Sing Glory #666

Audio

Small Church Music #1785

Text

The Book of Praise #572

Text

The Book of Praise #580

The Christian Life Hymnal #635

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #1712

Text

The Hymnal 1982 #694

TextPage Scan

The New English Hymnal #328

Text

The Song Book of the Salvation Army #953

TextAudio

The Worshiping Church #837

Text

Together in Song #549

TextPage Scan

Voices United #319

TextPage Scan

Voices United #430

Text

Worship (3rd ed.) #567

Worship His Majesty #324

Include 36 pre-1979 instances
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