Social Justice Songs
UM Hymnal
109 Creating God, Your Fingers Trace
120 Your Love, O God
150 God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
305 Camina, Pueblo de Dios
425 O Crucified Redeemer
426 Behold a Broken World
427 Where Cross the Crowded Ways
428 For the Healing of the Nations
431 Let There Be Peace on Earth
432 Jesu, Jesu
433 All Who Love and Serve Your City
434 Cuando el Pobre
435 O God of Every Nation
436 The Voice of God Is Calling
437 This Is My Song
439 We Utter Our Cry
440 Let There Be Light
441 What Does the Lord Require
450 Creator of the Earth & Skies
519 Lift Every Voice & Sing
533 We Shall Overcome
552 Here, O Lord Your Servants Gather
560 Help Us Accept Each Other
579 Lord God, Your Love Has Called Us
581 Lord, Who Love Through Humble Service
592 When the Church of Jesus
The Faith We Sing
2048 God Weeps
2059 I Am Your Mother
2092 Like a Child
2094 Carol of the Epiphany
2095 Star-Child
2104 An Outcast Among Outcasts
2130 The Summons
2172 We Are Called
2174 What Does the Lord Require
Jeffrey Rowthorn
Anders Frostenson
Catherine Cameron
Cesareo Gabaraín
Timothy Rees
Timothy Dudley-Smith
Frank Mason North
Fred Kaan
Sy Miller & Jill Jackson
Tom Colvin
Erik Routley
J.A. Oliver/M. Manzano
William W. Reid, Jr.
John Haynes Holmes
Fred Kaan
Frances Davis
Albert F. Bayly
Donald Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
Traditional
Tokuo Yamagachi
Fred Kaan
Brian Wren
Albert F. Bayly
Fred Pratt Green
KEDRON
Laras Ake Lundberg
HOLY MANNA
Cesareo Gabaraín
LLANGLOFFAN
Max Miller
GERMANY
CWM RHONDDA
Sy Miller & Jill Jackson
Ghanan folk song
CHARLESTOWN
J.A Olivar/M Manzano
LLANGLOFFAN
MEIRIONYDD
FINLANDIA
PADERBORN
Robert J.B. Fleming
Erik Routley
UFFINGHAM
J. Rosamond Johnson
Spiritual
Isao Koizumi
John Ness Beck
CAREY’S SURREY
BEACH SPRING
KING’S WESTON
Psalm 148; God’s concern for creation & discrimination.
God’s love calls to live boldly for justice.
Concern for flawed modern existence & care for world.
Resurrection—promise of new creation in world.
Crucifixion & our guilt for war & destruction.
Prayer for peace; draws on Hebrew prophets.
Call for City of God in urban malaise.
Concern for human rights around the world.
Prayer for peace & harmony.
Call to serve those in need, our neighbors.
Call to respond to urban turmoil.
Matt. 25 & Emmaus; God at work in unexpected places.
Call for God’s justice in broken world.
Isaiah 6:8; Call to respond to injustice in the world.
Prayer for global peace & cooperation.
Call for action on global peace & environmental justice.
Prayer for global peace & freedom.
Micah 6:8; do justice, love mercy, walk with God.
Confession of our pride & folly leading to injustice.
Black National Anthem—long road to freedom
Protest song for justice & reconciliation.
Call for global cooperation & peace.
Prayer for human cooperation & reconciliation.
Call to serve in midst of socio-economic injustice.
God’s love leads to serving people in need.
Call for church to engage its community.
Shirley E. Murray
Shirley E. Murray
Dan Damon
John Bell
Shirley E. Murray
Richard Leach
John Bell
David Haas
Jim Strathdee
Carlton Young
Per Harling
Dan Damon
John Bell
Carlton Young
LLANGLLOFFAN
KELVINGROVE
David Haas
Jim Strathdee
Laments abuse to children, women & animals.
“Earth Prayer”; care for environment.
Advent/Christmas; Children’s Sabbath.
Unexpected divine incarnation—among poor & obscure.
Advent/Christmas; concern for children & marginalized.
Solidarity with poor and powerless.
Risking commitment to God’s justice.
Micah 6:8; call to do justice and jubilation.
Micah 6:8; call to do justice.
Lloyd Stone/Georgia Harkness
2177
2178
2180
2181
2183
2184
2185
2186
2187
2192
2194
2219
2228
2235
2241
Wounded World That Cries for Healing
Here Am I
Why Stand So Far Away
We Need a Faith
Unsettled World
Enviado Soy de Dios
For One Great Peace
Song of Hope
Now It Is Evening
Freedom Is Coming
O Freedom
Goodness Is Stronger Than Evil
Sacred the Body
Siyahamba
The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve
Upper Room Worshipbook
18
Canticle of the Turning
20
Holy Is Your Name
81
Restless Weaver
133
When All Is Ended
140
O Day of Peace
145
Down by the Riverside
155
The Earth and All Who Breathe
156
We Lay Our Broken World
168
We Humans Build a Frame
169
Abundant Life
171
Sound a Mystic Bamboo Song
177
Till All the Jails Are Empty
189
Touch the Earth Lightly
Lord, Whose Love Through Humble Service
204
257
Psalm 34 (The Cry of the Poor)
278
Psalm 62 (God Is My Rock)
321
Psalm 122 (I Rejoiced When I Heard Them Say)
419
Peace Is Flowing Like a River
Zion Still Sings For Every Generation
68
God Weeps
102
World Without Walls
Shirley E. Murray
Brian Wren
Ruth Duck
John Thornburg
David Sparks
Jorge Maldonado
Shirley E. Murray
Alvin Schutmaat
Fred Pratt Green
South African
Spiritual
Desmond Tutu
Ruth Duck
South African
Delores Dufner
Hal Hopson
Dan Damon
MORNING SONG
CRIMOND
Hal Hopson
Cuban folk
Jim Strathdee
Argentinian folk
David Haas
Rory Cooney
David Haas
O.I. Cricket Harrison
Brian Wren
Carl Daw, Jr.
Spiritual
Ruth Duck
Anne Briggs
Ruth Duck
Ruth Duck
Bill Wallace
Carl Daw, Jr.
Shirley E. Murray
Albert Bayly
John Foley, SJ
Juan Antonio Espinoza
Bernadette Farrell
Folk
Rory Cooney
WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
HOLY MANNA
ENGEL BERG
THE GIFT OF LOVE
Shirley E. Murray
Mark Miller
Newlove Annan
David Robb/Amanda Husberg
John Bell
W. Daniel Landes
LAND OF REST
Economic justice; equitable health care.
Concern for homeless; worker justice.
Laments suffering of poor & marginalized persons.
Concern for racial diversity and justice.
Call to be faithful in social trials & injustice.
Call to ministry of love, justice & peace.
Commit to small steps of service & justice.
Call to ministry of peace, joy, love in world.
Love of neighbor—lonely, neglected, hungry.
Liberation from oppression.
Liberation from tribulation & oppression.
Affirm God’s resistance to evil.
Respect for bodies; concern for physical abuse & violence.
Commit to bold ministry.
Call to ministries of justice.
ICH HALTE TREULICH STILL
ICH HALTE TREULICH STILL
HOW CAN I KEEP
HOW CAN I KEEP
I-to Loh
John Bell
BUNESSAN
BEACH SPRING
John Foley, SJ
Juan Antonio Espinoza
Bernadette Farrell
Advent; Magnificat; promise of social change.
Advent; Magnificat; hope in God’s justice.
“Weaving” environmental & political justice.
Praise for promise of God’s justice in the world.
Claiming peace to overcome war & division.
Commit boldly to peace; no war.
Concern for creation; environmental justice.
Lament for broken world, communities, relationships.
Faithful response to terror & destruction.
Partnership with God to bring abundance to all.
Serving Christ in poor, common & unexpected places.
Call to justice ministry in many/all situations & settings.
Call to environmental justice & harmony.
God’s love leads to serving persons in need.
God’s concern for the poor.
Call to do justice in the world.
God’s promise of peace & justice.
God’s promise to liberate marginalized.
Laments abuse of children, women & animals.
Call for racial justice & reconciliation.
112
113
130
We Are Real People
Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Right Hand of God
Donn Thomas
James Weldon Johnson
Patrick Prescod
Donn Thomas
J. Rosamund Johnson
Noel Dexter
Cry for South African liberation.
Black National Anthem—long road to freedom.
God at work in world for justice & reconciliation.
Worship & Song
3018 Creation Sings
3020 God of the Bible
3121 If You Believe and I Believe
3122 Christ Has Broken Down the Walls
3124 How Shall I Come Before the Lord
3125 Peace for the Children
3126 Everything That Has Voice
3127 I Have a Dream
3128 Whatever You Do
3129 Touch the Earth Lightly
3149 A Place at the Table
3157 Come, Let Us Dream
3159 Let Our Earth Be Peaceful
Shirley E. Murray
Shirley E. Murray
Zimbabwean
Mark Miller
Dean McIntyre
Doreen Lankshear-Smith
Shirley E. Murray
Pamela Pettitt
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
Shirley E. Murray
Shirley E. Murray
John Middleton
Shirley E. Murray
WHY WE SING
Tony Alonso
arr. John Bell
Mark Miller
O WALY WALY
Doreen Lankshear-Smith
Marty Haugen
Charles H. Parry
CRADLE SONG
Swee-Hong Lim
Lori True
O WALY WALY
Carlton Young
Celebration of music that resonates in all creation.
God at work through us for justice.
Prayer for freedom for all people.
God’s promise of freedom & reconciliation.
Micah 6:6-8 paraphrase
Prayer for peace for diverse beings in the world.
Call to work for peace.
Call to fulfill ML King & God’s dream of peace & justice.
Matt 25: we are called to action on behalf of needy.
Call to environmental justice & harmony.
Claim sanctity and worth of all people.
Luke 4:18; call to fulfill God’s dream of justice for all.
Call to action making peace in the world.
Shirley E. Murray
Shirley E. Murray
Rodolfo Gaede Neto
Brian Mann
Per Harling
Rodolfo Gaede Neto
Claim sanctity and worth of all people.
God’s grace empowers us to global transformation.
Confession & cry to overcome injustice around world.
Federico Pagura
Scott A. Ressman
Ray Makeever
Federico Pagura
Communion; share bread with hungry.
Matt. 25; call to bring justice to the outcasts.
Invitation to live life fully in all dimensions.
Call to acts of peace-making; anti-war & anti-violence.
Affirm dream of God’s realm of justice that I work for.
Claim promise of children free to claim their identities.
Affirm God at work for justice in the world.
Prayer for peace for the world’s children.
Advent; Jesus comes with promise of new earth & justice
Canon affirming justice is song of community
Cry for peace.
For Everyone Born: Global Songs for An Emerging Church
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18
19
For Everyone Born
God, In Your Grace
Pelas dores deste mundo
Other Sources
Bendice, Señor, nuestro pan
Come Sweet Justice
Come to the Water
Creation of Peace
Dream God’s Dream
For All the Children
God of Justice, God of Mercy
Hope for the Children
Jesus Christ, Hope of the World
Justice Round
Paz, Queremos Paz
Until All Are Fed
We Share a Hunger
Yarabba ssalami
Bryan Sirchio
David Lohman
Jane Parker Huber
Douglas L. Clark
Joao Carlos Gottinari
Thew Elliott
Traditional
Tommy Brown/Bryan McFarland
Jill Kristen Warner
Palestinian
Louis Gilio/Scott Ressman
Ray Makeever
Carolyn McDade
Bryan Sirchio
David Lohman
HYFRYDOL
Henri Hemy
Joao Carlos Gottinari
Thew Elliott
Bryan McFarland
Jill Kristen Warner
Confess our inability to feed the hungry as Jesus fed crowd.
Expressing our commitment to justice & peace.
Call God to send peace into the world.