God Be In My Head

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Composer
Richard Shephard
Difficulty
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Season
Season After Pentecost Lent Communion Epiphany (day and season) General
Voicing(s)
2-part
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

Two equal voices and organ. A drop-dead gorgeous setting of the famous prayer from the Sarum Primer (1558), with lots of harmonic suspensions. 

Audio
Lyrics

God be in my head and in my understanding.
God be in my eyes and in my looking.
God be in my mouth and in my speaking.
God be in my heart, and in my thinking.
God be at my end, and at my departing.