O God, we give ourselves today

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O God, we give ourselves today

Author: Anthony Nye
Tune: MARTYRDOM (Wilson)
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	Praise, My Soul (Psalm Hymns for Piano 4…

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First Line:	O God, we give ourselves today
Author:	Anthony Nye
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Publication Date:	1977
Copyright:	Words by permission of Clifford Howell SJ

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MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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