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"How Great Thou Art" is a Christian hymn based on an original Swedish hymn entitled "O Store Gud" written in 1885 by Carl Boberg (1859–1940). The English version of the hymn and its title are a loose translation by the English missionary Stuart K. Hine from 1949.
Of his works, "O store Gud" ('O Great God'), upon which "How Great Thou Art" is based, the best known. The song is a natural romantic description of God's creation, which in each chorus ends with the songwriter wanting to cry out that God is great. It was written after Boberg experienced a thunderstorm at the Kalmar Strait. [4]
Psalm 8 inspired hymn lyrics such as Folliott Sandford Pierpoint's "For the Beauty of the Earth" which first appeared in 1864 and "How Great Thou Art", based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Boberg in 1885.
For the 75th anniversary of the hymn "How Great Thou Art," copyright owners of the song asked worship leader Matt Redman to record a new verse.
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How Great Thou Art: Gospel Favorites from the Grand Ole Opry is a live album of the Grand Ole Opry special of the same name, and features Alan Jackson, ...
Disc one contains the entirety of his two albums released respectively in 1960 and 1967, His Hand In Mine and How Great Thou Art. The other five tracks contain the four-song EP Peace in the Valley from 1957, incorporated later that year into his first Christmas album , and the 1965 hit single " Crying in the Chapel " which reached No. 3 on the ...
How Great Thou Art" is a hymn by Carl Boberg. How Great Thou Art may also refer to: Albums. How Great Thou Art (Elvis Presley album), 1967;