Singing the Lord's Prayer

I was thinking it would be nice to sing the Lord's Prayer as part of our worship service. Does anyone have a melody or arrangement for this? Looking for something modern kind of like City Harmonic although that one might be too much for people to sing along to. I briefly searched YouTube but didn't find anything I liked.

Praise the lord witha tele and everything will work out

The version by Selah is probably the best I have heard, but would be hard to pull off unless you have a real singer.

I have never heard a version I really like. You should write one.

The Lord's Prayer is a difficult one to sing.

One of my favorites dates from the 1960s folk mass, the "Rejoice" (http://www.amazon.com/Rejoice-Music-Worship-Twentieth-Century/dp/B000M9TH0I) folk mass by Herbert Draesel, Jr. We actually had an electric guitar in church in 1971.

Father Draesel is currently at All Saint's Episcopal Church in Lakewood, New Jersey.

The best "modern" version I have ever heard pretty much goes like this: it starts off with a very strong drum beat (lots of kick and toms, no cymbals. Think the intro to "Hosanna" by Hillsong United). This continues throughout the song. After two bars the guitar plays a distorted power chord, and sustains it for two more bars. Then the singing begins. At the beginning of each line the guitar does his power chord thing. At the end, after a third "amen", the drums stop abruptly at the "n" sound, and at the exact same moment the guitar rings out one last chord, and lets this trail away into the next song. Great for medley type worship sets.

The bridge to 'Manifesto' by City Harmonic is the Lord's Prayer. It's also a really simple song. Need a capable pianist

This was really popular when I was younger. I even have it on one of those Hits of the 70s albums.

http://youtu.be/gGpnkPqjudM

Had not heard this version before:

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The Lord's Prayer is a difficult one to sing.

One of my favorites dates from the 1960s folk mass, the "Rejoice" (http://www.amazon.com/Rejoice-Music-Worship-Twentieth-Century/dp/B000M9TH0I) folk mass by Herbert Draesel, Jr. We actually had an electric guitar in church in 1971.

Father Draesel is currently at All Saint's Episcopal Church in Lakewood, New Jersey.

I remember that. We sang it in the late '60s and early '70s at a parish where my father was minister. I still have Dad's copy I think. Later, my Dad wrote his own.

There are settings for the Lord's Prayer in many hymn books, including modern ones. My parish uses a responsorial version that's kinda nice though perhaps a little old fashioned sounding to those used to modern P&W stuff.

Easy, yet melodic congregational singing is important (and in my opinion, especially so for those things we are expected to verbalize often). Perhaps choose the specific version of the words you like and try writing a melody to fit.

Peace, Mike.

We do an arrangement by Matt Sheperdson that's pretty cool.

We Catholics do it in chant when we sing it.

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Bit of an old thread, but I've been away.

As it is in Heaven by Matt Maher is a good one.
I've also used the old school version by Albert Hay Malotte, I did an arrangement based on what I found in a hymnal. I did the Malotte version with my Tele and I jazzed up the chords a bit and used some funky voicing but man, did the folks SING! Probably because it was somewhat familiar and not something they're invited to sing along with very often. My keyboard player said he'd never heard that version outside a funeral service.

I don't know if this is real or not, but hopefully he won't be singing...
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