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Lord I Lift Your Name On High
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Browse piano sheets by Rick Founds on Zen Virtual Piano. Rick Founds is a California songwriter whose musical life began in church. By the age of ten, he had composed several songs for Sunday school. He pursued guitar as a young person and continued studying through music courses in college. His wider body of work includes more than two hundred songs listed in CCLI’s Song Select, although Lord I Lift Your Name On High became especially closely associated with him. The 1989 composition began with reflection on an article about the water cycle. Founds connected the movement of vapor, clouds, rain and streams with Christ’s life, death, resurrection and ascension. At the time, he served as musician for a large California congregation. Maranatha! Music subsequently picked up the song, helping it reach churches beyond that setting. Founds has welcomed the different ways congregations make the song their own. Translations and musical adaptations have carried it into styles ranging from gospel and country to reggae, rap and hip hop.
Browse piano sheets by Rick Founds on Zen Virtual Piano.
Rick Founds is a California songwriter whose musical life began in church. By the age of ten, he had composed several songs for Sunday school. He pursued guitar as a young person and continued studying through music courses in college. His wider body of work includes more than two hundred songs listed in CCLI’s Song Select, although Lord I Lift Your Name On High became especially closely associated with him.
The 1989 composition began with reflection on an article about the water cycle. Founds connected the movement of vapor, clouds, rain and streams with Christ’s life, death, resurrection and ascension. At the time, he served as musician for a large California congregation. Maranatha! Music subsequently picked up the song, helping it reach churches beyond that setting.
Founds has welcomed the different ways congregations make the song their own. Translations and musical adaptations have carried it into styles ranging from gospel and country to reggae, rap and hip hop.
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By ten, he had written several songs for Sunday school at his church. He later pursued guitar and took music courses in college.
An article about the water cycle prompted him to reflect on Christ’s life, death, resurrection and ascension. That reflection informed his 1989 composition.
He has expressed pleasure at congregations translating the song and adapting it to different musical styles. Examples include gospel, country, reggae, rap and hip hop.