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39. O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

Text Information
First Line: O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise
Title: O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Author: Charles Wesley (1739, alt.)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Tune Information
Name: AZMON
Composer: Carl Gotthelf Gläser (1828)
Adapter: Lowell Mason (1839)
Meter: CM
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Adapt. Modern Psalmody, 1839


Text Information:

Charles Wesley wrote this hymn on the first anniversary of his conversion experience. In its original version it had eighteen stanzas. It is the first hymn in most Methodist hymnals


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