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Song Bibliography

This is a brief list of some of creation-honoring songs and hymns that you may find in several denominational hymnals – especially those listed as “Traditional Songs/Hymns.” You will find many of the “Contemporary Songs/Hymns” in Gather Comprehensive cited at the end of this list. The songs/hymns are listed by either title or first line. In parenthesis, after each title, you’ll find, where available: (1) composers and/or arrangers, and (2) tune titles in italics.

Traditional Songs/Hymns
Contemporary Songs/Hymns
Songbooks and Hymnals
Link to Creation-honoring Hymns

Traditional Songs/Hymns

All creatures of our God and king (St. Francis of Assisi/Lasst uns erfreuen)
All things bright and beautiful (Alexander/Royal Oak)
Beautiful Savior (Seiss/St. Elizabeth)
The Doxology (Old 100th)
For the beauty of the earth (Pierpoint, Monk/Lucerna Laudoniae and a Shaker tune)
For the healing of the nations (Kaan, Wade)
God who made the earth (Rhoades/Sommerlied, Cura Dei)
God who touchest earth with beauty (Edgar/Spiritus Christi)
I sing the almighty power of God that made the mountains rise (Watts/Forest Green)
Immortal, invisible, God only wise (Smith/St. Denio)
Joyful, joyful we adore Thee (Van Dyke, Hodges, Beethoven/Ode to Joy)
Let all things now living (Davis/The Ash Grove)
Morning has broken (Farjeon/Bunessan)
Not here for high and holy things (Studdert-Kennedy/Morning Song)
Now the green blade riseth (Campbell, Crum/Noel Nouvelet)
O all ye works of God (Tucher/Irish)
Psalms 104 (various)
Saint Patrick’s Breastplate (various)
The spacious firmament on high (Addison, Haydn/Creation)
The works of the Lord are created in wisdom (Idle, Kremser)
‘Tis the gift to be simple (18th century Shaker Song/Simple Gifts)
This is my Father’s world (Babcock, Mercer Street)
We plow the fields and scatter (Claudius, Wir Pflugen)

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Contemporary Songs/Hymns

Abundant Life (Duck, Haugen)
All You Works of God (Haugen)
Canticle of the Sun (Haugen)
Come, Holy Spirit (Taize, Berthier)
Creation Story (Haugen)
Creating God, your fingers trace (Rowthorn/Wilderness)
Earth and all stars (Brokering)
For the fruit of all creation (Green, Jackson/East Asklam)
The Garden Song (Mallett)
Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte)
God of the sparrow, God of the whale (Vajda)
God, who stretched the spangled heavens (Cameron/Holy Manna)
Jubilate Servite (Taize, Berthier)
May We Praise You (Foley)
Mothering God (Janzen, Foley)
Now join we in praise to our Creator (Kaan, Laycock)
On Holy Ground (Pena)
One Ohana (One Great Family) (Haugen)
All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir (Staines)
Praise the Spirit in creation (Hewlett, Dearnley and Hurd/Finnian and Julion)
Song at the Center (Haugen)
Sing Out Earth and Skies (Haugen)
Spirit of Gentleness (Manley)
The Earth Is the Lord’s (Oliano, Ikhalan)
Touch the Earth Lightly (Murray, Gibson)
When in our music God is glorified (F.P. Green, Stanford)
World Without End (Bell/Scottish)

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Songbooks and Hymnals

· Gather Comprehensive (hymnal), GIA Publications. This hymnal has a section devoted to “creation.”

· A Hymn Festival About the Earth, by David Schelat and Elaine Reisner, in The Hymn, Vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 29-31. A complete service based on prayers, hymns, and meditations taken from a wide variety of cultures.

· Open the Door: Songs for Liturgy and Liberation and Walk Across the Water: Songs for Living Faith, by Ray Makeever, published by Open Door Press; contact: Ray Makeever, P.O. Box 3005, Dubuque, IA 52004

· Songs for Young Children, by Mary Lu Walker, published by Paulist Press, Paramus, NJ. This songbook contains several songs that celebrate God’s world. Order through your local bookstore.

· Walk Lightly on the Earth: Apprenticing a Conscience for North America, by John Pitney, available through Alternatives for Simple Living. Lively creation-care songs for children and adults, performed by Pitney – a United Methodist minister.