Father Up Above
Author: Mabel Jones Gabbott
Composer: Gladys Ericksen Seely
Languages (18)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Fader se til os
- Dutch: O, Vader zie met liefd’rijk oog
- English: Father Up Above
- Finnish: Oi, katso lastes puolehen
- French: Veille sur nous
- German: O Vater, blicke heut auf uns
- Icelandic: Ó, Drottinn uppi á himnahæð
- Indonesian: O, Bapa Pandanglah Kami
- Italian: Padre lassù
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Velsign oss med din kjærlighet
- Portuguese: Pai, Que Estás nos Céus
- Samoan: Tama O I Luga
- Spanish: Oh Padre en lo alto
- Swedish: Fader se till oss idag
- Tongan: ʻE Tamai ʻI ʻOlunga
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Most common tunes for “Father Up Above”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “Father Up Above” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1951 or earlier.
Public domain (not renewed)
Earliest known source: The Children Sing (1951).
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net:
De Kinderen Zingen (1951), no. 18; The Children Sing (1951), no. 40.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
O Father, look on us today And bless us with thy love. In Jesus’ name we humbly pray, O Father up above.
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