 Johann Crüger set the hymn (transcribed below) as one of 161 hymns in his 1649 collection "Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien" (Sacred church melodies).\new Staff { \clef treble \time 2/2 \key f \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t
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Nun1 bit2 -- ten wir1 den2 hei -- li -- gen Geist1
um2 den rech -- ten Glau -- ben al -- ler -- meist,1
daß2 er uns be -- hü1 -- te2 an un -- serm En1 -- de,
wenn2 wir heim1 -- fahrn aus die -- sem2 E -- len1 -- de.Ky4.