GOD BE IN MY HEAD

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Cypress Choral Music · God Be In My Head – by Andrew Balfour

featuring Camerata Nova (Winnipeg)

LYRICS

God be in my head,
And in my understanding;
God be in mine eyes,
And in my looking;
God be in my mouth,
And in my speaking;
God be in my heart,
And in my thinking;
God be at mine end,
And at my departing.

The medieval French original from the frontispiece of a Book of Hours (1514).
The English translation from the Sarum Primer of 1558,
and then in John Cosin’s A Collection of Private Devotions.