Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten from Vaya con Dios

Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten Words: Georg Neu­mark, 1641 (Wer nur den lie­ben Gott lässt wal­ten); first pub­lished in his Fort­ge­pflantz­er mu­sik­al­isch-po­et­isch­er Lust­wald (Je­na, Ger­ma­ny: 1657). Ca­ther­ine Wink­worth trans­lat­ed the words from Ger­man to Eng­lish in 1855, and pub­lished them in the Cho­rale Book for Eng­land, 1863. Music: Neumark, Georg Neu­mark, 1641. The tune is said to have been used for 400 dif­fer­ent hymns.
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