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I've just written a hymn tune, without having words first. I was writing my to-do list for next week, wrote down "compose a hymn tune" and it just came to me. After a week or two of not being able ot concentrate much on composing this is something of a relief!

It's 76 76 D (matches Jerusalem the Golden) but with a bit of a twist in the last line, so that the emphasis is on a different syllable. It's in triple time, with an anacrusis at the beginning of each line of text.

Here is the pulse with the accented syllables in allcaps:

one TWO three four five SIX sev
one TWO three four five SIX
one TWO three four five SIX sev
one TWO three four five SIX
one TWO three four five SIX sev
one TWO three four five SIX
one TWO Three four five SIX sev
one two THREE four five SIX

Does anyone have a text I could use for it? Or want to write one? It's in a major key and is a hopeful, comforting little thing.

In general, I prefer to work with Creative Commons licensed texts.

(I could alter the last line so it fits an ordinary 76 76 D tune a bit better, of course. But I like it as it is.)

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