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Verse 1
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You're about to hear an example
Christian music got started.
but contemporary Christian music
isn't really new at all.
Christians have been using the music of their day
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from bar songs,
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I once met a girl and her
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name was Matilda,
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she hung like a bear
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and she looked like one too.
like Charles Wesley and Martin Luther
would have taken this very melody
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and used it to the glory of God.
it would have sounded like this.
We praise Thee, O God,
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our Redeemer, Creator,
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Thy tribute we bring.
we kneel and adore You.
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We bless your great name,
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your praises we sing.
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Now here's our idea of
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might have sounded like if it had been written
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and performed in the 1940s.
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We praise Thee, O God,
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our Re deemer, Creator,
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in grateful devotion,
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our tribute we bring.
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We lay it before you
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We kneel and adore you
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Your praise as we sing
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For the king that's really happenin'
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We praise thee, O God,
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and grateful devotion,
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our tribute we bring.
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Lay it before you,
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we kneel and adore you,
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we bless your great name
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and your praise as we sing.
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We lay it before you,
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we kneel and adore you.
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We bless your great name.
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Yes, we bless your great name.
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We bless your great name.
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And your praise as we sing
Now this is what we praise thee, O God,
would have sounded like if
it were written
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somewhere in the hills of Tennessee.
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We praise thee, O God,
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Grateful devotion we bring
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We lay before you, kneel and adore you,
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and your praise as we sing, oh yeah.
We worship you, God of our fathers,
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our battles we win.
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Our grateful devotion we bring.
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and your praise as we sing.
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Your praise as we sing.
If this hymn had been sung
on the beach in the 1960s,
I bet it would have sounded like this.
Look at those guys!
I want to see them!
it's always the same
the praises we
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Praise God
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Grateful, grateful devotion we bring
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Grateful, grateful devotion
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All our children we bring
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I'm thinking of food vibration
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Grateful, grateful devotion
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All our children we bring
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He's giving me exhortation
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Grateful, devotion
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All our children we bring
Music has changed a lot
during the past few hundred years,
but GLAAD sings the same
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We praise Thee, O God,
our Redeemer, Creator.
In grateful devotion
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We lay it before You,
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we kneel and adore You.
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We bless Your great name
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and Your praises we sing.
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Once it's united,
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our praises we offer
And gladly our song of true
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With strong arm will guide us,
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To thee, great Redeemer,
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forever we pray
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Hallelujah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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Forever be praise, hallelujah!
Forever be praise!
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