Index of Traditional and Gospel Hymns and Songs in The Faith We Sing

The following two tables contain listings of the traditional and the historical gospel hymns and songs in The Faith We Sing, including newly composed modern hymns in the classical, traditional style. While there are numerous characteristics of both genres of congregational song, the following characteristics are among the most commonly used. It should be noted that the most contemporary of the genre of contemporary black or white gospel music are not included in this listing of gospel hymns and songs. This special genre is distinctly different because of the great influence of jazz, ragtime, blues, and the considerable influence of contemporary, secular popular forms of the entertainment and recording industries. Both indexes here attempt to exclude contemporary praise and worship music, choruses, Taizé refrains, spirituals, global and ethnic music, and Scripture songs.

Traditional Hymns and Songs: 108 titles

• Form may include strophic or free poetry, rhymed or unrhymed.
• Simple harmonic structure, using primary chords, but there is also a more frequent use of dissonance and harmonic surprise in recent hymns.
• Mostly diatonic melodies, with more use of dissonant melody notes and wider leaps in recent years.
• Predominantly homophonic rhythm.
• Lack of syncopation; more syncopation recently
• Texts are more objective than subjective, using themes of the nature of God, the Trinity, the church, and the social gospel.

Title	Number
A Mother Lined a Basket	2189
All Who Hunger	2126
An Outcast Among Outcasts	2104
As a Fire Is Meant for Burning	2237
As We Gather at Your Table	2268
At the Font We Start Our Journey	2114
Baptized in Water	2248
Blest Are They	2155
Bring Many Names	2047
Broken for Me	2263
By the Babylonian Rivers	2217
Carol of the Epiphany	2094
Christ Beside Me	2166
Christ Has Risen	2115
Come and Find the Quiet Center	2128
Come Away with Me	2202
Come! Come! Everybody Worship	2271
Come, Let Us with Our Lord Arise	2084
Come, Share the Lord	2269
Deep in the Shadows of the Past	2246
Eternal Father, Strong to Save	2191
Faith Is Patience in the Night	2211
For All the Saints	2283
For One Great Peace	2185
The Fragrance of Christ	2205
Gather Us In	2236
Glory to God in the Highest	2276
God Claims You	2249
God Made from One Blood	2170
God Weeps	2048
God, How Can We Forgive	2169
Here Am I	2178
How Long, O Lord	2209
How Lovely, Lord, How Lovely	2042
I Am Your Mother (Earth Prayer)	2059
I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry	2051
In the Midst of New Dimensions	2238
In the Singing	2255
In Unity We Lift Our Song	2221
Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley	2112
Jesus, Tempted in the Desert	2105
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine	2099
Joy in the Morning	2284
Kyrie	2275
Lead on, O Cloud of Presence	2234
Let All Things Now Living	2008
Let Us with a Joyful Mind	2012
Light the Advent Candle (Advent Song)	2090
Like a Child	2092
The Lord Bless and Keep You	2280
Lord of All Hopefulness	2197
Lord, We Come to Ask Your Blessing	2230
Loving Spirit	2123
Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth	2050
My Song Is Love Unknown	2083
Now It Is Evening	2187
Now Praise The Hidden God of Love	2027
O Blessed Spring	2076
O God Beyond All Praising	2009
O Holy Spirit, Root of Life	2121
One Holy Night In Bethlehem	2097
Out of the Depths	2136
Praise the Lord with the Sound of Trumpet	2020
Praise the Source of Faith and Learning	2004
Sacred the Body	2228
The Servant Song	2222
She Comes Sailing on the Wind	2122
Sing a New Song to the Lord	2045
The Snow Lay on the Ground	2093
Spirit of God	2117
The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve	2241
Star-Child	2095
Stay with Us	2199
Sunday's Palms Are Wednesday's Ashes	2138
Swiftly Pass the Clouds of Glory	2102
The Lone, Wild Bird	2052
The Summons	2130
They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love	2223
Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne	2100
Time Now to Gather	2265
Together We Serve	2175
Two Fishermen	2101
Unsettled World	2183
Victim Divine	2259
Walk with Me	2242
We All Are One in Mission	2243
We Are God's People	2220
We Have Come at Christ's Own Bidding	2103
We Need a Faith	2181
We Sang Our Glad Hosannas	2111
We Sing to You, O God	2001
We Walk by Faith	2196
We Were Baptized in Christ Jesus	2251
What Does the Lord Require of You	2174
When Cain Killed Abel	2135
When God Restored Our Common Life	2182
When Jesus Wept	2106
When We Are Called to Sing Your Praise	2216
Who Is My Mother, Who Is My Brother	2225
Why Stand So Far Away, My God?	2180
Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice	2089
Within the Day-to-Day (A Hymn for Deacons)	2245
Without Seeing You	2206
Womb of Life	2046
Wonder of Wonders	2247
Would I Have Answered When You Called	2137
Wounded World That Cries for Healing	2177
You Are Mine	2218

Traditional Gospel Hymns and Songs: 16 titles Often include a refrain or chorus. Simple harmonic structure, mostly using primary chords. Predominantly major keys. Use of chromatic melodies with accidental neighboring tones. Use of straightforward rhythms, but also frequent use of dotted rhythms. Predominant homophonic rhythms, but also use of parenthetic echo rhythms. Lack of syncopation. Texts are often subjective in nature, making frequent use of themes of salvation, conversion, and personal holiness.

Title	Number
Bless His Holy Name	2015
Blessed Quietness	2142
From the Rising of the Sun	2024
Give Me a Clean Heart	2133
God the Sculptor of the Mountains	2060
His Eye Is on the Sparrow	2146
I'll Fly Away	2282
If It Had Not Been for the Lord	2053
Just a Closer Walk with Thee	2158
Lead Me, Guide Me	2214
The Lily of the Valley	2062
Living for Jesus	2149
My Life Flows On (How Can I Keep from Singing)	2212
Since Jesus Came Into My Heart	2140
Taste and See	2267
There Are Some Things I May Not Know (Yes, God Is Real)	2147