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SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Tune Sources: Traditional English melody Tune Key: d minor or modal Incipit: 11552 32157 17564 Used With Text: Listen to My Words, O LORD

James and Andrew, Peter and John

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949; Graham Maule, b. 1958 Meter: Irregular Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Evangelism; Faith, Trust and Commitment; Grace and Providence; Harvest Festival; The Local Community; The Serving Community; The Wholeness of Creation; The Witnessing Community; Year C Easter 3 Scripture: John 21:1-13 Used With Tune: SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Listen to My Words, O LORD

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 5 Used With Tune: SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Hear My Words, O Gracious LORD

Meter: 7.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Blessing; Conflict; Evening; Grace; Hostility; Law; Lies; Morning; Prayer; Ten Commandments 8th Commandment (You shall not give false witness) Scripture: Psalm 5 Used With Tune: SCARBOROUGH FAIR Text Sources: Crown and Covenant Publications, alt.

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James and Andrew, Peter and John

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949; Graham Maule, b. 1958 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #338 (2000) Meter: Irregular Topics: Evangelism; Faith, Trust and Commitment; Grace and Providence; Harvest Festival; The Local Community; The Serving Community; The Wholeness of Creation; The Witnessing Community; Year C Easter 3 Scripture: John 21:1-13 Languages: English Tune Title: SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Hear My Words, O Gracious LORD

Hymnal: Christian Worship #5A (2021) Meter: 7.7.8.7 Topics: Blessing; Conflict; Evening; Grace; Hostility; Law; Lies; Morning; Prayer; Ten Commandments 8th Commandment (You shall not give false witness) Scripture: Psalm 5 Languages: English Tune Title: SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Listen to My Words, O LORD

Hymnal: The Book of Psalms for Worship #5c (2010) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Scripture: Psalm 5 Languages: English Tune Title: SCARBOROUGH FAIR

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Author of "James and Andrew, Peter and John" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink