Our Father Which Art in Heaven (Lord's Prayer)

DESCRIPTION: "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallow-ed be thy name, Thy kingdom come Thy will be done Hallow-ed be thy name" "Hallow-ed hallow-ed hallow-ed hallow-ed Hallow-ed be Thy name, Thy kingdon come Thy will be done Hallow-ed be thy name"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad) US
Roud #15338
RECORDINGS:
Artricia Gordon, "Lord's Prayer" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #372, recorded 11/26/2022)
Venice Talbot, Louise Neptune, Lovey Gilman, Martha Saunders, Henry Thomas, "Our Father Which Art in Heaven" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [304 words]: King James Matthew 6:9-10: "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed by thy name. Thy kindom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."
Herskovits has this as a Spiritual Baptist hymn; on WITrinidadVillage02 the verse and chorus, as in the description, are repeated as a quick hymn with clapping and beating a stick on the wood floor in rhythm. The tune is not the one I usually hear for this hymn. Zane discusses the hymn's importance among the St Vincent Converted [Spiritual Baptists] (Wallace W. Zane, Journeys to the Spiritual Lands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 25, 27). - BS
There are of course many musical settings of the Lord's Prayer, which I make no attempt to distinguish even when they paraphrase slightly for the sake of meter or rhyme. Most are based on the King James Bible, though I wouldn't be surprised if there are Catholic versions with a different text. This is a little ironic, because the King James translation has a couple of peculiarities. One is the line "Give us this day our daily bread." The Greek word translated "daily," Greek επιουσιος, occurs only in Matthew 6:11 and the parallel in Luke 11:3; no one knows what it means. The Latin Vulgate translated "supersubstantial," which is hardly more meaningful (it looks like a fancy attempt at a calque of the Greek: epi-ousous=upon-being); the early Curetonian Syriac version offers "perpetual"; the Peshitta and Harkleian Syriac versions gave "necessary"; other ancient witnesses made other guesses. And the final phrase in the version in Matthew, "For thine is the kingdom..." is almost certainly a later liturgical addition; the earliest witnesses, ℵ B D Z 1 and most Latin translations, omit. So do most modern translations, including the New Revised Standard Version. - RBW
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