# Bitten

- Music: Ludwig van Beethoven (died 1827)
- Words: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (died 1769)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/5115311

## The words

Gott, deine Güte reicht  
so weit, so weit die Wolken gehen;  
du krönst uns mit Barmherzigkeit,  
und eilst, uns beizustehen.  
Herr! meine Burg, mein Fels, mein Hort,  
vernimm mein Flehn, merk auf mein  
Wort;  
denn ich will vor dir beten! denn ich will vor  
dir beten!  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).