We Come with Joy

Author: Delores Dufner

Benedictine Sister Delores Dufner is one of the best-known hymn writers in the church today. More than 20 different publishers in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia have included her texts in their hymnals and hymn collections. The popular hymn anthology, Sing a New Church, contains her distinctive, beautifully crafted texts set to familiar hymn tunes. Sister Delores frequently receives commissions to write hymn texts for special occasions and needs. In 1994 she completed a commission for the libretto, Choose Life (Uvacharta Bachayim), an opera/oratorio in commemoration of the Jewish holocaust, with music by Mona Lyn Reese. In 1996 she was one of five winners in an international English-language hymn competition to update Mary's… Go to person page >

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	We come with joy in Jesus Christ
Title:	We Come with Joy
Author:	Delores Dufner
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Copyright:	© 1994, GIA Publications, Inc.

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Tune

FOREST GREEN

FOREST GREEN is an English folk tune associated with the ballad "The Ploughboy's Dream." Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) turned FOREST GREEN into a hymn tune for The English Hymnal (1906), using it as a setting for "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Shaped in rounded bar form (AABA), FOREST GREEN has th…

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Arrangements

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Instrumental Yuletide Triptych Hymn Introductions and Descants for Trumpet and Organ - Set 3 Triptych on Forest Green for Violin and Organ More Instrumental >
Handbells In Glad Adoration! (Seven Reproducible Hymn Tune Settings) Hymns for Handbells, Vol. 1 A Joyous Alleluia More Handbells >