Albert
Hay
Malotte's setting of "The Lord's Prayer" has resulted in one of the world's most beloved devotional songs. Composed in 1935, the music was in the process of being rejected by a publisher when famed singer John Charles Thomas performed it on a radio broadcast, from the composer's own manuscript. Soon a music dealer in Pittsburgh got so many requests for the sheet music that he phoned in an order for 500 copies to the astounded publisher, who desperately ransaked his mail room to find the score before it could be mailed back to Malotte. Fortunately for all, he did.
The following bible selection shows
Malotte's musical adaptation of Our Lord's words in black:
1. And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
2. And he said unto them, When ye pray, say,
Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
In earth As it is in heaven.
3. Give us this day our daily bread,
4. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil:
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory Forever, Amen. Amen.
[Luke. Chapter 11. (KJV)]
