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SDAH 356: All Who Love and Serve Your City

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SDAH 356

All who love and serve your city,
All who bear its daily stress,
All who cry for peace and justice,
All who curse and all who bless.

Text
Text

1
All who love and serve your city,
All who bear its daily stress,
All who cry for peace and justice,
All who curse and all who bless.

2
In your day of loss and sorrow,
In your day of helpless strife,
Honor, peace, and love retreating,
Seek the Lord, who is your life.

3
For all days are days of judgment,
And the Lord is waiting still,
Drawing near His friends who spurn Him,
Off’ring peace from Calv’ry’s hill.

4
Risen Lord, shall yet the city
Be the city of despair?
Come today, our judge, our glory;
Be its name “The Lord is there!”

Hymn Info
Hymn Info


Biblical Reference
(b) Isa 55:6 (d) Eze 48:35

Author
Erik Routley (1917-1982)

Performance Suggestions
Unison

Copyright
Words copyright 1969 Galliard Ltd. Used by permission of Galaxy Music Corporation, New York, sole US agent. Music copyright 1969 by Hope Publishing Co., Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Hymn Tune
BIRABUS

Metrical Number
8.7.8.7.

Composer
Peter Cutts (1937-)

Year Composed
1962

Hymn Score

Piano Accompaniment

Notes

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This was the first hymn written by Erik Routley (1917-1983); SEE ON SDAH 13) who is considered to be probably the most dominating force in twentieth-century church music.  In October 1966 Routley was at a music workshop in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland.  He was trying to compose a tune, but in the next room another composer was at who was unable to compose without singing out loud.  Frustrated, Routley turned to hymn writing.  He thought of a beautiful tune by Peter Cutts that had no text, and at the time of the American cities that were suffering from riots (specifically, Oakland, California).  The result was this text, which was published in the second volume of Dunblane Praises, 1967.  It is a hymn of caring and concern for the people and the problems of the cities, showing the peace and love that Jesus gives as the answer.  Routley also wrote SDAH 13 “New Songs of Celebration Render,” and the tune SHARPTHORNE, SDAH 571.

 The tune BIRABUS was composed by Peter Cutts (1937- ; see Biographies) in the fall of 1962 to be used the following January with the text” In the cross of Christ I Glory” at the student Christian Movement Congress in Bristol, England. The tune name was the pet name given to the vehicle used by the composer and eight others while returning to England from a student conference I Austria in the summer of 1962. This tune is haunting and “different,” yet easy to sing and memorize.  

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