"Wäre Gesanges voll unser Mund" (If our mouth were full of song) is a Christian hymn with text by Eugen Eckert, written in 1999, and a melody by Alejandro Veciana.
A hymn of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, it is part of regional sections of the common German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, and of other songbooks.
The text of "Wäre Gesanges voll unser Mund" was written by the Protestant theologian and minister Eugen Eckert from Frankfurt, derived from a prayer in Hebrew, "Nischmat Kol Chaj" from Festtägliches Gebetbuch (the Frankfurt Haggadah) of 1892.
[1][2] The song, of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, appeared in regional sections of the common German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, in the Diocese of Limburg as GL 814.
The repeated call in the refrain, "dich, Gott" ("you, God") is a leap upwards of a fifth to D, the highest note which is held for more than one measure.