Be unto me (William Byrd)
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- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-05-25). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 107 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Be unto me
Composer: William Byrd
Lyricist: William Leighton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: AATB
Genre: Sacred, Sacred song
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule (1614)
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Original text and translations
English text
Be unto me O Lord a tower of strength,
against my mortall foe,
O guard and warde me with thy power,
which way so ever I shall goe.
Then shall my heart and soule rejoyce,
in God my Lord with cheerefull voyce.