"All Creatures Strange Come to Our Church"

[Barbara Need]

Joel,

I'm not sure I understand your question. The lyrics to "All Creatures
Strange..." were written by a UU minister to the tune of "All
Creatures of Our God and King." One of a set of hymns he rewrote to
reflect UUism. I may be able to produce more of the lyrics to that
from memory, but I won't swear to it. (The one I liked best was "Come,
come to sleep; come to take notes. Come tell the preacher he
misquotes"!)

Barbara

On 8 Mar 2009, at 12:12 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> OK, now that I've seen the "lyrics", where does "all creatures
> strange" come from?  I was expecting something on the order of "all
> creatures great and small", which I see is from another hymn entirely.
>
> Joel
>
> At 3/8/2009 11:24 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
>> "All Creatures of Our God and King." Words allegedly by St. Francis.
>>
>> Barbara
>>
>> On 7 Mar 2009, at 11:14 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>
>>> At 3/7/2009 11:18 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
>>>> "All Creatures Strange Come to Our
>>>> Church".
>>>
>>> Coming from a different tradition, I'd like to know what the
>>> original
>>> for this one is.
>>>
>>> Joel

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