Who Would Ever Have Believed It

Author: Iona Community

The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by the Rev George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions in the Christian church. Its headquarters are in Glasgow, Scotland, where its publishing house Wild Goose Publications is also based, but its main activities take place on the island of Iona, and to a lesser extent also on Mull, in Argyll and Bute. The community began as a project led by George MacLeod, at that time Church of Scotland minister in Govan, Glasgow, to close the gap which he perceived between the Church and working people. He took a group of ministers and working men to Iona to rebuild the ruined medieval Iona Abbey together. The community which grew out… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Who would ever have believed it
Title: Who Would Ever Have Believed It
Author: Iona Community
Language: English
Copyright: Words © 1988 Iona Community; used by permission of GIA Publications, Inc.

Tune

AE FOND KISS


TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA

First associated with this text in Fredrik Engelke's Loftangeroch andeliga wisor (1873), TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA is probably a Swedish folk song, but versions of the tune were also sung in Germany in the early 1800s. This charmingly simple tune needs light accompaniment, perhaps just recorders 1 and…

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Instances (2)TextImageAudioScore
Chalice Hymnal #213Text
Common Praise #199Text