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You can hear Shirley Murrayβs hymn Give thanks to life in this weekβs selection of listener requests. And Ludwig van Beethovenβs tune βOde to Joyβ is set to a hymn by Henry van Dyke: Joyful, joyful we adore thee.
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SONG: MORNING HAS BROKEN
Artist: Choir of Kingβs College, Cambridge
Words/Music: Eleanor Farjeon/Trad
Recording: EMI 948306
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the word
Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day.
SONG: JOYFUL, JOYFUL, WE ADORE THEE
Artist: Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, Utah
Words/Music: Van Dyke/Beethoven
Recording: Bonneville 519602
Joyful, joyful, we adore You,
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flow'rs before You,
Op'ning to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sa
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