God Be In My Head

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Composer
John S. Dixon
Difficulty
Moderate radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked
Season
General Epiphany (day and season) Lent Season After Pentecost Communion
Voicing(s)
SATB
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano] Unaccompanied [a cappella]
Category
Anthems Communion Anthems Evening Service
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

SATB a cappella. What composer can resist setting this wonderful text from the Sarum Primer? We have a growing number of these settings and each is wonderful in its own way. John's is delightful — fresh and engaging and not too difficult. Always a wonderful benediction or a final communion hymn.

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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.