Let Children Hear The Mighty Deeds

Text by Isaac Watts

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About this hymn

Date: 1719
Tune: Lea
Composer: James Lea Summers
Key: A
Meter: 8 6 8 6

Historical background

This edition is preserved in the Open Hymnal Project at source revision d35811b2d5c9. Contributor and publication details below are reproduced from the score metadata rather than inferred.

Theology & Scripture

The source index associates this text with Activity, Children (see also God's Children - the Faithful), Christian Home/Family, Education, God, Majesty & Power of, God's Children - the Faithful (see also Saints, People of the World).

Ps 78:5-8 · Deut 4:9-10 · Deut 6:7 · Deut 11:19-20

Musical background

Lea is presented in the source key of A, with four documented parts.

Sources & rights

Verified for United States on 2026-10-13. Public domain — source score marking

Words: Isaac Watts, 1719. Music: 'Lea' James Lea Summers, (1837-1881). Setting: "The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal" (Ohio Synod), 1908. copyright: public domain. This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2007 Revision.