Hymn Tune Writing Month

[artsyhonker]

Some people do something called "NaNoWriMo": National Novel Writing Month, in November.

I had the thought yesterday that I might do something similar but with hymn tunes. The idea is to write thirty of them in thirty days.

This post is a placeholder for collecting texts and doing bits of planning...

If you've written a hymn text and released it under a Creative Commons license, please feel free to leave it in comments, or link to it there. If there's an existing public domain hymn text that has a rubbish tune and you think it could do with another, please do likewise.

Comments

[marnanel]

This is actually the most recent hymn text I've written, but it may not be entirely serious.

As we see in your creation
creeping things upon the earth,
show us, with the caterpillar,
how to reach a second birth.

As the spider spins her cobweb
patiently to catch a fly,
grant us means to share your message
in the lives of passers-by.

As you granted limbs aplenty
to the peaceful millipede,
make our feet upon the mountains
swift to reach a world of need.

As the beetle digs the dunghill
seeking where its food is stored,
teach us that this world is refuse
set against our loving Lord.

[artsyhonker]

Fun :) As the tunes, not the words, are part of AcWriMo, I think I can still use it: other 8787 words will fit, after all!