We Would Be One

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We would be one as now we join in singing

Author: Sam Wright
Tune: FINLANDIA
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Choral
	This Is My Song - Guitar part

Handbells
	Finlandia - Handbell Part

Representative Text

1 We would be one as now we join in singing
our hymn of love, to pledge ourselves anew
to that high cause of greater understanding
of who we are, and what in us is true.
We would be one in living for each other
to show to all a new community.

2 We would be one in building for tomorrow
a nobler world than we have known today.
We would be one in searching for that meaning
which bends our hearts and points us on our way.
As one, we pledge ourselves to greater service,
with love and justice, strive to make us free.

Source: Singing the Living Tradition #318

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Author: Sam Wright

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First Line:	We would be one as now we join in singing
Title:	We Would Be One
Author:	Sam Wright
Meter:	11.10.11.10.11.10
Language:	English

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Tune

FINLANDIA

In 1899 Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (b. Hameenlina, Tavastehus, Finland, 1865; Jarvenpaa, near Helsingfors, Finland, 1957) wrote a musical score for six historical tableaux in a pageant that celebrated and supported the Finnish press against Russian oppression. In 1900 Sibelius revised the music…

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