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What are your favourite hymns? I am trying to pick some for the service. The family hymn is Guide Me O Thy Great Redeemer, which is always a good sing, but I need two more. In particular, I would like one out of the three song-spaces we have to be occupied by something that might be recognised by a wider group than just the born-and-bred Anglicans. Trouble is it has to be played on a church organ in an 11th century church so anything other than timeless gets shown up for what it really is. And, if the song lacks a certain requisite dignity the organ ends up sounding like a mighty wurlitzer and half the congregation get the giggles. I like Will The Circle Be Unbroken but the lyrics are hardly appropriate.
Are you able to come? If you do will you bring a uke? There will be many opportunities to play it.
R
Are you able to come? If you do will you bring a uke? There will be many opportunities to play it.
R
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ps. I could hear you singing!
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I've been thinking about your quandary. My two thoughts are, my current favorite sacred harp tunes, with words by the immortal Isaac Watts, is a good positively eco-friendly text perfect for the summer solstice:
'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand,
God of eternal power;
The sea grows calm at thy command,
And tempests cease to roar.The thirsty ridges drink their fill,
And ranks of corn appear;
The ways abound with blessings still,
'Thy goodness crowns the year.
(We sang that on the radio, but it can also be really pretty - 344 Rainbow) The Poem:
http://books.google.com/books
http://www.fasola.org/indexes
My second thought is you should write your own appropriate lyrics for The Circle Be Unbroken, &C.
Happy May Day,
Sandy Hussein
"Now when I die don't bury me at all
Just place me away in alcohol
My forty four lay by my feet
Please tell them I am just asleep"
-Carter Family
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