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Good Songs to Sing At Church

Update: We’ve created a list on Grooveshark of a bunch of the songs we sing at church, you can listen to them all here.

At theStory we try to sing songs that are honest and real along with our songs of adoration and praise.  Sometimes the typical chorus’ that we tend to sing from Tomlin or Hillsongs just don’t cut it.  So we have gone through our music to find what we think are great songs to sing in church on a Sunday morning with our community.  These songs are written from people who I would consider poets (not just people who can put words together that rhyme cliche.  So I hope you like our collection and I’ll try to keep it updated as we ad to it.  All the songs I have listed here you can download for free and read the lyrics below.

Update: I re-posted a few more songs here, so there might be some more on there that might be on interest to you.  Leave a comment if you have any songs that are particularly of interest to you, we’re always open to trying new ones.

Jesus by Page France | MP3

I will sing a song to you
And you will shake the ground for me
And the birds and bees and old fruit trees
Will spit out songs like gushing streams

And Jesus will come through the ground so dirty
With worms in his hair and a hand so sturdy
To call us his magic we call him worthy
Jesus came up through the ground do dirty

I will sing a song for to you
And you will stomp your feet for me
And the bears and bees and banana trees
Will play kazoos and tambourines

And Jesus will dance while we drink his wine
With soldiers and thieves and a sword in his side
And we will be joy and we will be right
Jesus will dance while we drink his wine

Jesus will come through the ground so dirty
With worms in his hair and a hand so sturdy
To call us his magic we call him worthy
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty
Jesus came up through the ground so dirty

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Thrice – Come all you Weary | MP3

Come all you weary with your heavy loads
Lay down your burdens find rest for your souls
Cause my yoke is easy and my burden is kind
I’ll take yours upon me and you can take mine

Come all you weary, move through the earth,
You’ve been spurned at fine restaurants and kicked out of church;
I’ve got a couple of loaves, so sit down at my feet,
lend me your ears and we’ll break bread and eat

Come all you weary
Come gather round near me
Find rest for your souls

Come all you weary, crippled you lay
I’ll help you along you can lay down your canes
We’ve got a long way to go but we’ll travel as friends
The lights growing bright further up, further in

Come all you weary
Come gather round near me
Find rest for your souls

Rest for your souls

Come all you weary
Come gather round near me
Come all you weary
Come gather round near me
Find rest for your souls
Rest for your souls
Rest for your souls

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Braddigan – City on a Hill | MP3

Will you come quick upon the hill
We”ll break some bread and we’ll all take our fill
We have the greatest reason of all
We’ll build a city or we’ll fall

Haven’t you heard that we are free?
Haven’t you traced the steps back from Calvary?
We have the greatest reason of all
We’ll build a city or we’ll fall
We’ll build a city without walls

So bring all your hammers, your nails, and your tools
Bring all you can spare and what you might use
And now loose your grip; we’ll not need our hands today
We’ll build a city as we pray

So bring all your hammers, your nails, and your tools
Bring all you can spare and what you might use
And now loose your grip; we’ll not need our hands today
We’ll build a city as we pray

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Consider the Ravens by Dustin Kensrue | MP3

I’ve got bills to pay
Taxman on my tail
Just keep prayin’ that
the check’s in the mail

There are times it seems
when everything’s lost
and I’m moaning, I’m tossed
and I see..

between the river and the ravens I’m fed
between oblivion and the blazes I’m led
So father give me faith, providence and grace
Between the river and ravens I’m fed
Sweet deliver, oh you lift up my head
and lead me in your way

I’ve grown sick and tired
of trying to stand still
I’ve learned to let the wind
pull me where it will

Throw myself into
the will of the wait
I can never be great
’til we’re free

between the river and the ravens I’m fed
between oblivion and the blazes I’m led
So father give me faith, providence and grace
Between the river and ravens I’m fed
Sweet deliver, oh you lift up my head
and lead me in your way

Although I’m walking through
the valley of the shadow of death
evils all around
It’s coming from the right and the left

Trust that I will see
the glory above
Oh, your banner of love
flies over me

between the river and the ravens I’m fed
between oblivion and the blazes I’m led
So father give me faith, providence and grace
Between the river and ravens I’m fed
Sweet deliver, oh you lift up my head
and lead me in your way

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To Be Alone with You by Sufjan Stevens | MP3

I’d swim across lake Michigan
I’d sell my shoes
I’d give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room

To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you

You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your goals

To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree

To be alone with me you went up on the tree

I’ll never know the man who loved me
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Oh God Where Are You Now by Sufjan Stevens | MP3 (coming)

Oh God, hold me now
Oh Lord, hold me now
There’s no other man who could raise the dead
So do what you can to anoint my head

Oh God, where are you now?
Oh Lord, say somehow
The devil is hard on my face again
The world is a hundred to one again

Would the righteous still remain?
Would my body stay the same?

Oh God, hold me now
Oh God, touch me now
There’s no other man who could save the dead
There’s no other God to place our head

Would the righteous still remain?
Would my body stay the same?

There’s no other man who could raise the dead
So do what you can to anoint my head

Oh God, hold me now
Oh Lord, touch me now

Chariot by Page France | MP3 (coming)

Swing, like a chariot
At the trumpet call
When we’re all unsaved, swing
Like a wrecking ball
Like the heart of god
What a mystery
Filled with the wedding feast
For the snakes and beasts
With the angel teeth, swing
Come and carry us
Come and marry us
To the blushing circus king
And dance like elephants as he comes to us
Through a fiery golden ring
With a violin and a song to sing
As he brings for us our wings
Now he’s one of us
Plays the tambourine
Breaks the bread for us
And sings
Will you wait for us
Will you stay for us
Will you grace us everything
You’re a wrecking ball
With a heart of gold
We will wait for it, swing
Like a chariot
Swing it low for us
Come and carry us away
So we will become a happy ending
So we will become a happy ending
Fire come and carry us
Make us shine or make us rust
Tell us that you care for us
We need to hear a word for us
Let your body stand with us
Or let our ribs return to dust
Chariot you swing for us
We think that you can carry all of us
So we will become a happy ending
So we will become a happy ending
So we will become a happy ending
So we will become a happy ending

11 thoughts on “Good Songs to Sing At Church”

  1. Hey man, I stumbled across your site today, awesome stuff, we seem very similar in our styles (in regards to church) I’m near Belleville ontario.. i’ve added you to msn with your gmail address, dunno if you use it or not would be cool to chat sometime though.

  2. Sweet, I was looking for the lyrics and an mp3 for City on a hill. (I had already found the Page France) And I grabbed the Thrice MP3 for good measure too.

    Thanks Nathan.

  3. you messed up on the jesus you put do dirty its supposed to be so dirty well it’s pk we all make mistakes i from Crossville,TN i love church i was wondering if you would like to sing a my church for fun we, WILL ALL LOVE YOU IF YU DO PLZZZZZZZZZZZ GRACE INDEPENDEENT CHURCH OF CRIST PLZZ OR SEND me some stuff from church 494 rhondendrum cir.

  4. Great song choices. We sing or have considered singing most of these songs. My question is what do you do for copyright issues? Do you just sing the songs or do you post the lyrics for the song for your congregation to sing along? I always wonder about these things so I wanted to know how you deal with it.

  5. im supposed to sing a church song and i’ve gone to so many websites to find the perfect one. i don’t know any of these.

    1. a good song to sing for church is walking in his foot steps. not alot of people know it but im sure if you learn the lyrics you can be the best singer your church. its a really pretty song.

  6. What’s up,I read your new stuff named “Good Songs to Sing At Church — Nathan Colquhoun” like every week.Your story-telling style is awesome, keep up the good work! And you can look our website about free anonymous proxies.

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