Church official shares a major factor in the hymn selection for new Latter

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The popular song “ Do As I’m Doing ” helps joyful children all over the world work out their wiggles before many Sunday classes in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Some of the youngest kids in the church’s global Primary organization know the words, but it turns out that nobody actually knows who wrote them.

That’s a catch to including some hymns and songs in the new hymnbook the church is releasing in chunks.

Securing the legal permission to use a piece of music can be tricky, and it will affect what hymns wind up in the new “ Hymns — For Home and Church ," said David Channer, deputy general counsel in the church’s Office of Gene