Apparently it’s Anglican. It was in our chapel hymnal at college. It was never used except when we were making fun of something...
God of Concrete
Words: Frederick R.C. Clarke
and Richard Granville Jones
God of concrete, God of steel,
God of piston and of wheel,
God of pylon, God of steam,
God of girder and of beam,
God of atom, God of mine:
all the world of power is thine.
Lord of cable, Lord of rail,
Lord of freeway and of mail,
Lord of rocket and of flight,
Lord of soaring satellite,
Lord of lightning’s flashing line:
all the world of speed is thine.
Lord of science, Lord of art,
Lord of map and graph and chart,
Lord of physics and research,
Word of Bible, Faith of church,
Lord of sequence and design:
all the world of truth is thine.
God whose glory fills the earth,
gave the universe its birth,
loosed the Christ with Easter’s might,
saves the world from evil’s blight,
claims us all by grace divine:
all the world of love is thine.
Heh. Glad I don’t know the tune so it can’t stick.
That’s almost the pattern of the kind of song I hate most, except the kind I really hate are the “We are concrete, we are steel, we are piston and the wheel” kind.
At first look, it seems kinda quirky, but when you ponder the words, you realize that it’s neat the way it puts God above all things, even those we humans, in our hubris, think are wonders of our own making.