# Just for Today

- Music: Jane Bingham Abbott (died 1934)
- Words: Samuel Wilberforce (died 1873)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6583477

## The words

Lord, for tomorrow and its needs,  
I do not pray; Keep me, my God, from stain of  
sin, Just for today; Let me no wrong or idle  
word Unthinking say; Set thou a seal upon my  
lips, Just for today;  
In pain and sorrow’s cleansing fires,  
Brief be my stay; Oh, bid me if today I die,  
Come home today; So for tomorrow and its  
needs, I do not pray, But keep me,  
guide me, love me, Lord; Just for today.  

Let me both diligently work, And duly pray;  
Let me be kind in word and deed, Just for today;  
Let me in season, Lord, be grave,  
In season gay; Let me be faithful to thy  
grace, Just for today.  

In pain and sorrow’s cleansing fires,  
Brief be my stay;  

(Oh, take me in thy loving arms Lest I should  
stray)  

So for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray,  
But keep me, guide me, love me, Lord;  
Just for today.  

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).