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CWM RHONDDA
The hymn tune CWM RHONDDA, (pronounced koom rrhawn-tha) to which we sing "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah", was written by John Hughes in 1905 or 1907, for the annual singing festival, Baptist Cymnfa Gnau at Capel Rhondda, Pontypridd, Wales. It was printed in leaflets for that occasion.
Originally named RHONDDA for Rhondda Valley, a great mining valley in Wales, Hughes added CWM, or valley, when he found there was already a tune by that name. Although there is a story that this tune was written with chalk on a piece of tarpaulin, more likely is his wife's recollection that he wrote it in the Salem chapel one Sunday morning.