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"Get Me to the World on Time" is a song written by Annette Tucker and Jill Jones for the American garage rock band, The Electric Prunes. The song was released in March 1967 following the success of the band's previous single, " I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) ".
"Get Me to the Church on Time" is a song composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, where it was introduced by Stanley Holloway. It is sung by the cockney character Alfred P. Doolittle, the father of one of the show's two main characters, Eliza Doolittle .
The hymn is often sung as part of the Remembrance Day service in Canada and on similar occasions in the United Kingdom, including at the annual Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London. The hymn tune "St. Anne" ( common metre 86.86) to which the text is most often sung was composed by William Croft in 1708 whilst he was the organist ...
"In Christ Alone" is a popular modern Christian song written by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, both songwriters of Christian hymns and contemporary worship music in the United Kingdom. The song, with a strong Irish melody, is the first hymn they penned together. [1] [2] The music was by Getty and the original lyrics by Townend. It was composed ...
In that version, the lyrics were unchanged, but the tune was then called "Thaxted" (named after the village where Holst lived for many years). The editor of the new (1926) edition of Songs of Praise was Holst's close friend Ralph Vaughan Williams , which may have provided the stimulus for Holst's cooperation in producing the hymn.
Slane is also the melody of another well-known hymn, "Be Thou My Vision," and of the hymn "Lord of Creation, to Thee be All Praise" by J. C. Winslow, whose lyrics are similar. [3] There are two variants of this tune; the text of "Lord Of All Hopefulness" fits a metre of 10.11.11.11, and an anacrucial version of Slane must be used (with an ...
The lyrics for the hymn were written by Ainger. [1] 1. God is working his purpose out as year succeeds to year: God is working his purpose out, and the time is drawing near; nearer and nearer draws the time the time that shall surely be, when the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea. 2.
Its popularity began to spread in 1969 when it was included in the "100 Hymns for Today" supplement of Hymns Ancient and Modern, one of the standard Church of England hymnbooks of its day. The Methodist church included it (albeit as second choice) in the 1983 Hymns and Psalms, and it was the main choice in the 1986 New English Hymnal. It has ...