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Name that hymn
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I am trying to find out the name of a hymn with the following lyrics - see below. If anyone can ID it for me... it would be very appreciated. Its quite old and any suggestions as to title etc. will be most welcome. Many thanks.
Mary Mother great and tender
stretch from heaven thy loving hands
to the children of the tropics
to the sunny Philippines
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I recall it as Mary Mother, great and tender, stretch from heaven thy loving hands
To the many helpless children, lost in darkest heathen lands
Children who have never known thee
Or thy son's redeeming love
Cannot recall the last two lines,
then there were lots of verses that went round the world.
It was in a blue book entitled hymns for catholic schools
I was singing it in school assemblies in the early 60's.
I have not been able to find the book or any on line listing of the lyrics
I always called it 'Mary Mother Great and Tender', never knew it under any other title.
The above looks like an adaptation
Not sure this will help
To the many helpless children, lost in darkest heathen lands
Children who have never known thee
Or thy son's redeeming love
Cannot recall the last two lines,
then there were lots of verses that went round the world.
It was in a blue book entitled hymns for catholic schools
I was singing it in school assemblies in the early 60's.
I have not been able to find the book or any on line listing of the lyrics
I always called it 'Mary Mother Great and Tender', never knew it under any other title.
The above looks like an adaptation
Not sure this will help
Hymn Our Lady of the Missions
Paderborn Gersangbuch 1765
The verses go round the world (at least the world as it was known to Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century).
The references to the children of the tropics, to the sunny Philippines come from other verses
v2 starts
From the prairie and the forest, from the islands of the main
From the glories of the tropics, from the palms of Afric's plain
and v3 starts
In the groves of far Jamaica, in the sunny Philippines
Paderborn Gersangbuch 1765
The verses go round the world (at least the world as it was known to Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century).
The references to the children of the tropics, to the sunny Philippines come from other verses
v2 starts
From the prairie and the forest, from the islands of the main
From the glories of the tropics, from the palms of Afric's plain
and v3 starts
In the groves of far Jamaica, in the sunny Philippines
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