Make Room within My Heart, O God

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Source: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #675
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Author: Bryan Jeffery Leech

Bryan Jeffrey Leech was born in Middlesex, England in 1931. He came to the United States in 1955 and studied at Barrington College and North Park Seminary. He was ordained in 1961 and served in the Covenant Church. He composed more than 500 songs. Dianne Shapiro Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Make room within my heart, O God
Title: Make Room within My Heart, O God
Author: Bryan Jeffery Leech (1973)
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Language: English
Copyright: © 1973 Hope Publishing Company
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Tune

KINGSFOLD

Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs] (1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having…

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FOREST GREEN

FOREST GREEN is an English folk tune associated with the ballad "The Ploughboy's Dream." Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) turned FOREST GREEN into a hymn tune for The English Hymnal (1906), using it as a setting for "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Shaped in rounded bar form (AABA), FOREST GREEN has th…

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MASSACHUSETTS (Davis)

Katherine Kennicott Davis (b. St. Joseph, MA, 1892; d. Concord, MA, 1980) composed MASSACHUSETTS in 1962 for The Methodist Hymnal (1964), in which it was set to Charles Kingsley's "From Thee All Skill and Science Flow." Davis named the tune after her home state. MASSACHUSSETTS exhibits the classic s…

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Timeline

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Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
TextAudio

Baptist Hymnal 1991 #491

Baptist Hymnal 1991 #491
Text

Celebrating Grace Hymnal #675

Celebrating Grace Hymnal #675

Hymns of the Saints #182

Hymns of the Saints #182
Text

The Worshiping Church #559

The Worshiping Church #559

Worship Together #201

Worship Together #201
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