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Subject: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Oct 00 - 01:54 PM I have been leading the singing and choosing the music for our Saturday night service for several years now, and have mostly played what I like. Something is missing sometimes, in how I do it. Can you help me out? Tell me your favorite hymsn, here or in PM or e-mail, and why, and then I will sing them thinking of you and I bet it will shift something into place that has been heading for its place for a long time. And it will also be a way I pray for you... I pray when I sing, and even more so when I practice. I may need help with tunes. Still all so new to me. So if you know I tune I can't find, can I call you up to hear it? I have a HUGE word book, but fewer tunes throughout all my other books! My fantasy is all of you, and others, on my lawn, and spread out over the surrounding hills as needed, among the cows and the deer and the foxes, and of course we all have microphones! Or huge voices!!! And we are swapping hymns until we run out of new ones, and I memorize them all instantly, and people coming and going in an endless supply... um, I guess we'll need a cook... and portapotties.... and a videographer... Oh. OK. Real life. Your hymns. Please? ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Uncle Jaque Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:00 PM Sis: I'm looking forward to just such a Holy jam... but probably not in this old World! See you there, if not before. Shalom: "Uncle" |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:06 PM Of course! But your favorites....? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Mrrzy Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:20 PM Has the 23rd Psalm ever been put to music? No, you aren't seeing things, this is really me... that is such beautiful poetry... |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Mark Clark Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:22 PM Susan, I know this isn't what you mean but, for the record, my favorite hymns are:
More to your point, I'm very fond of:
I've tried to steer clear of "Gospel" songs that aren't really "in the hymnal" so to speak. - Mark |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:37 PM Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it, Mount of Thy redeeming love. Here I raise my Ebenezer; Here by Thy great help I've come; And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God; He, to rescue me from danger, Interposed His precious blood. O to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above. Here's a midi at the Cyber Hymnal, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing I love the "Prone to wander" words. Sing it for me Praise! |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Jim Krause Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:45 PM Currently, my favorite hymn is Shiloh by William Billings (1746-1800?). Mostly anything by Billings is great stuff to sing, such as Chester, or Northfield. |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: DougR Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:49 PM Amazing Grace Abide With Me Oh God Our Help In Ages Past Beautiful Saviour (Fairest Lord Jesus) DougR |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: MMario Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:54 PM Current Favorites: Here I am, Lord On Eagle Wings
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:00 PM Hate to be "picky" Praise, but the tune you sing the hymn too is important too! I have heard some sung to different tunes and must be really conservative cause I dont like em when they aint sung my way....Just for the record here are my favourites. Yours, Aye. Dave
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Quincy Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:01 PM Oh Susan, Don't get me started!!!! Can we have a top ten please? How Great Thou Art I stand Amazed in the Presence Jesus Loves Me (this I know) What a Friend we have in Jesus Blessed Assurance Amazing Grace When We All Get To Heaven In The Garden To God Be the Glory Old Rugged Cross
Guess I'd better stop there! |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: kendall Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:07 PM My favorite is "Let the lower lights be burning" I recorded this for Folk Legacy back in '74 or '75. Good old Folk Legacy..it is still available on cassette. |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: GospelPicker (inactive) Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:12 PM Some of my favorite and most inspirational hymns are: I Love To Tell The Story He Lives Leaning On The Everlasting Arms Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus He Arose In The Garden What A Friend We Have In Jesus Victory In Jesus At Calvary In My Heart (There Rings A Melody) There are obviously many more I could list, but those are just 10 of my really favorite ones; They are, for the most part, uptempo. They lift my spirit and make me feel closer to God because His Spirit really does empower me to get excited about going out and sharing the great blessed news of the Gospel with anyone who will listen. Praise The Lord!! GospelPicker @:()>[+]
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Cobble Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:14 PM 23rd Psalm to the tune Crimond. Mrs. Cobble |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: hesperis Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:15 PM Dylan loves me, yes I know, For a Little Hawk told me so... (Oh, I am going to be in SOOO much trouble when he sees this post!) Praise - I'll come back later with some real good ones for you. Some of my favorites have been mentioned already. |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:15 PM Mark, my husband is an Episcopal priest with a great love for the Greek heritage of worship and liturgics. My favorite Bible translation is as close to Greek word pix as I can get for now. And I bet my husband knows those. We have thought of doing an occasional Taize-style service, and I bet those ones you mentioned first belong there. You may hear from us for details. Everyone else-- yes, and please, keep them coming. I know almost all the tunes mentioned so far. More detail on why these mean so much to you would help me focus them. Mrzzy, there is a lovely version of that psalm I have, where the words are rearranged just enough to make the tune fit, and I will try to catch that one on tape for you. Mary in KY, you knew I was thinking of my promise to you when I started this thread? I will sing for you. Name it and I will sing it. I love it that you posted the words here... you were singing it to me so I could sing it for you. I heard you. Do you have any old tapes of you singing? If so please PM me for address. And PM me your address too please. It will be awhile, but there will be tapes. Bad quality. But I will sing for you. soddy, I don't know them. What do you suggest? I have just one Bilings hymn, When Jesus Wept, right? Doug, I'll have top see if that last one is in my collection. Didn;t know there was anojtyehr hymn to that tubne. Mmario, I know those, sort of, but I would rather duet with you. *G* So I'll get started on them... Dave, I'll have to look those up. But you know I need you to do the last one properly. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: mrs_zezam Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:23 PM Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven Crown Him with Many Crowns Be Thou My Vision all of the Alleluia hymns |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:29 PM Oh goodie, more posting while I posted. I have to lie down now or I would answer you each individually. But you GP, better practice up. I'm counting on you to do those with me, in as many trips as it takes! I'll sing with you on as many as I can, in my range. High. Up there. ~S~ |
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Subject: ADD: Never Grow Old ^^ From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Oct 00 - 04:02 PM I have this one in my harvesting bin, but I don't see that it has ever been posted. Maybe the search isn't working. -Joe Offer- NEVER GROW OLD (Words & Music: James Cleveland Moore, 1930) I have heard of a land on the faraway strand, 'Tis a beautiful home of the soul; Built by Jesus on high, there we never shall die, 'Tis a land where we never grow old. Refrain Never grow old, never grow old, In a land where we'll never grow old; Never grow old, never grow old, In a land where we'll never grow old. In that beautiful home where we'll nevermore roam, We shall be in the sweet by and by; Happy praise to the King through eternity sing, 'Tis a land where we never shall die. Refrain When our work here is done and our life-crown is won, And our troubles and trials are o'er; All our sorrow will end, and our voices will blend, With the loved ones who've gone on before. Moore was a singing teacher in Spaulding County, Georgia. "Heavenly Highway Hymns" shows the copyright date as 1930, but some sources show it as early as 1914. ^^ |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Oct 00 - 04:14 PM I have a long list of favorites that I sing at Mass, mostly fairly recent songs from Oregon Catholic Press and GIA (which used to be the Gregorian Institute of America). Some of their stuff is a little trendy, but they have a lot of good stuff. I tend to like the songs that are based on Scripture, because they tend not to be so trendy and trite. I know at least three versions of the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my shepherd"), none traditional. Other good subjects for church music are the Beatitudes ("Blessed are the peacemakers") and the Prayer of St. Francis ("Make me an instrument of your peace") - and I don't know traditional versions of them, either. I also occasionally sing some Gregorian chant. I suppose my favorite traditional Catholic hymn is "Where Charity and Love Prevail" (Ubi Caritas). One traditional tune that I do sing in church is SLANE ("Be Thou My Vision"), which I sing as Lord of All Hopefulness. I sing a lot of the standard anthems that all churches sing, and I and like them just fine, but they're not particular favorites of mine. I sing the gospel stuff outside church, because it generally has an evangelical theology that doesn't fit the Catholic liturgy. Here are some of the gospel songs I've been singing lately:
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Mark Clark Date: 11 Oct 00 - 04:16 PM Susan, Feel free to send me email if you would like any music in the formal Liturgical vein. As choir director of an Orthodox Church, I've got quite a lot of it, mostly in English and Arabic but some is Greek. I don't think I have any with with words in Russian but I can probably get some if you want that. - Mark |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Burke Date: 11 Oct 00 - 05:13 PM If your favorites list runs to over 100, can they still be considered favorites?
Here a few in the Episcopal Hymnal 1st line followed by tune name if I know it: Praise, if your word books list meters you can do what's been done as long as English metrical hymns have been around, find a tune with the same meter that you like & use the new words. I'd love to come to your party, but for me it would have to last a couple of days. Even in a 2 day Sacred Harp convention with @80 per day and few repeats, there are favorties we don't get to. Don't know how far you are from Ithaca, but I'll renew the invite I made a while back to come to our convention on Friday evening & all day Saturday. Come for as much or as little as you have time for. The 23rd Psalm has many metrical versions: My Shepherd will supply my need; The King of Love my shepherd is; The Lord's my Shepherd I'll not want. I think there are more, but I can't come up with anymore right now.
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Bill D Date: 11 Oct 00 - 05:15 PM "Only Remembered"...."Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown"...."The Hallejah Side".... (even a heathen HAS to love some of those songs!) |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: mousethief Date: 11 Oct 00 - 05:37 PM Oh the Deep Deep Love of Jesus And Can it Be All Hail the Power to the tune used in IVCF's Hymns III Amazing Grace For the Beauty of the Earth I know that my redeemer lives Holy Holy Holy Probably others but I'm listening to the ball game and can't think.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: DonMeixner Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:03 PM In the Garden Holy, Holy, Holy, Oh, Holy Night |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: thosp Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:10 PM Masters' Boquet peace (Y) thosp |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: GUEST,winterbright Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:16 PM AMAZING GRACE!!! But a new one I just found in the Methodist hymnal - "Something Beautiful" goes: Something beautiful, something good; All my confusion He understood; All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife; But He made something beautiful of my life. Written by Bill Gaither, I think; the tune is awesome. |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: mrs_zezam Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:22 PM Lord of the Dance Morning Has Broken Simple Gifts Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:25 PM We have been doing a lot of these. Lots we haven't tho! And winterbright, yes, we do that Gaither one and a lot of others by them or from their Gaither Gospel Series. Seen that on TV? Must see. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Wesley S Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:33 PM Precious Lord Take my hand, Down in the valley to pray, John the Revelator and a bunch of the songs that our group leader has written - I will lift up my eyes, and others to follow. |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: GUEST,winterbright Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:34 PM Also: Precious Lord, Take My Hand; Wade In The Water; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (which I first heard as a child on Gene Autry's cowboy show); I Come to the Garden; His Eye Is On the Sparrow; When the Roll is Called Up Yonder... (Would you believe I'm a Unitarian?!!) |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: bflat Date: 11 Oct 00 - 06:47 PM There are so many favorites already mentioned but dating back to 1864 or earlier is: How Can I Keep From Singing. I also love the Shaker hymns for their simplicity, as in: Simple Gifts. A favorite spiritualis: Let Us Break Bread. And the first hymn I learned is the sweetest i.e., Amazing Grace. Thanks Praise for the thread. Made me stop and hear so many hymns, albeit in my head. bflat |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: kendall Date: 11 Oct 00 - 07:02 PM I fell in love with "Softly and tenderly" when I heard it sung in the movie, Trip trip Bountiful. It's ok for a Unitarian to like hymns Pat. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: AND CAN IT BE THAT I SHOULD GAIN (Wesley) From: bbc Date: 11 Oct 00 - 07:24 PM And Can It Be That I Should Gain (Charles Wesley) And can it be that I should gain An interest in the Savior's blood! Died He for me who caused His pain! For me who Him to death pursued? Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? He left His Father's throne above (so free, so infinite His grace!), Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race. 'Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out me! 'Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out me! Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in Him, is mine; Alive in Him, my living Head, And clothed in righteousness divine, Bold I approach th'eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own. Bold I approach th'eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own. Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? This has been one of my favorites for sometime. We may start doing it in our Christian folk quartet. Joe, we are still singing (& finding blessing in, every time!) Deep Settled Peace, but we sing the last verse in plural now. Has a softer feel to it, not so finger-pointing. love, bbc --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 11 Oct 00 - 08:54 PM Sooz... I'll try but honest, you dont want to hear my versions of the others either LOL..... I do sing Eternal Father with feeling though.... almost every day of my life... and you all know why... Yours, Aye Dave (hoping God understands my sense of humour or I'm F***ed) |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 11 Oct 00 - 09:18 PM Praise - I'll send you a PM with more hymns and a little story about why each one has personal meaning for me. Some of the stories involve other people and are just too personal to put on the 'net.
Have you thought about medleys? The last three hymns are in the 1975 Baptist Hymnal. I'm Methodist, but played the piano in a small ecumenical Baptist church in Alabama for several years. That's where I learned so many of the old Southern hymns. We had a request Sunday once a month, and invariably I had to sight read a hymn I didn't know! My signal to the songleader was to play it through once if I didn't know it. I remember a few that had to be doubled in tempo. For large group singing, I like Sine Nomine (For All the Saints), How Firm a Foundation, Finlandia (Be Still My Soul), Brethern We Have Met to Worship. The first and last have beautiful descants. I could go on... |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Parson Date: 11 Oct 00 - 09:41 PM Hi Praise, Great thread. Thanks. Let me add a couple to the list & make an aside comment to Winterbright (Pat, I think.) My favorite HYMNS are 1. All time favorite: "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" because in the changing fortunes of life He is the one stable thing for me. No matter what, He is faithful. 2. "It Is Well" (with my soul.) Partly because of the story about how it came to be written, but mostly for the third verse. It's awesome. "My sin, (Oh the bliss of this wonderful thought!) My sin, not in part, but the whole; is nailed to His Cross & I bear it no more. Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Oh my soul!" Now, I'm going to knock your socks off. There is another song, not a hymn, written by the Newgrass Revival that I have only heard at Fiddler's Conventions but I would be tempted to sing in an informal worship service. It's called "Dancing With The Angels." (Just like old Daniel, in the Lion's Den.) Pat, we have one, & only one Hymn in our Baptist Hymnal, written by a Unitarian, no less. It's "In The Cross Of Christ, I Glory." Which is pretty amazing for a Unitarian, I guess. Finally a friend told me that a friend of his always signs his correspondence, "Be There." It means, "Make your plans to be in Heaven." So I say to all of you: Be There! Randall |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: alison Date: 11 Oct 00 - 09:54 PM Be Thou my vision slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: GUEST,Murray MacLeod Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:15 PM |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:18 PM This is great. Plan on hearing from me on some of the tunes. Mary, YES. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: GUEST,Murray MacLeod Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:19 PM Alison, I would agree, that "Be Thou my Vision " is a beautiful hymn, but could we please have some recognution on this thread that most if not all of the tunes for these hymns were hijacked from much older traditional songs (in this case "The Banks of the Bann" ) Murray |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Jon Freeman Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:24 PM Priase, learn Welsh (not that I have). Calon Lan (pure heart) sung well is probably the best Hymn I know of. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Nathan in Texas Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:31 PM I'm with Parson in that the third verse of "It is Well With My Soul" is probably at the top of the list. Other favorites that haven't been listed above are: "I Am Resolved" (I've been playing this fast and loud as an autoharp solo. It's great.) "He Leadeth Me" "God Leads Us Along" "Make Me a Blessing"
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Sorcha Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:55 PM Morning Has Broken has to be at the top of my list. Played on flute at our wedding. The Holy City. Was my dad's favorite, and I can still hear him singing it in a deep baritone. Amazing Grace--not exactly a favorite, as it guts me every time I hear it, esp on pipes. Played at too many memorials and funerals, but it needs to be on the list. How about: Will the Circle Be Unbroken because it is just so much fun to sing? Joshua Fit (sic) the Battle of Jericho--same reason |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: John Hardly Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:16 PM When I Survey The Wondrous Cross Incidentally, in a folk music forum it should be pointed out that this is beautiful beyond measure sung to the tune of "The Water Is Wide". If you had tuned in to HearMe tonight I'd have played it for you! John millring Hardly |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:23 PM If I could make this f***ing computer behave, Mr. Hardly, I'd have been there, and sung a few myself. Your tip on that tune swap is priceless. Love the words to "Survey," but find the tune a pain in the patoot. Love the other tune, tired of the words. Perfect! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: John Hardly Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:31 PM Praise, Hymns is what Ah plays! I'd love to sit down with you a play through 'em all! Call me John--Mr's too formal for a guy like me;>) John |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Ferrara Date: 12 Oct 00 - 12:25 AM So many. I love "I Am Resolved," because my mother used to sing it while she did housework. Always makes me think of her. Also the phrase, "Things that are higher, things that are nobler, these have allured my sight" is very like my mom's outlook. Sweet Hour of Prayer. Not a hymn, I think, a religious parlor song. Whispering Hope. Ditto. Dwelling in Beulah Land, and Angel Band. |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: Marion Date: 12 Oct 00 - 01:34 AM Here's my top ten list. To me "hymns" means older songs, usually with at least four verses sung only once each, and usually found in hymnals. Shorter, newer songs that are often sung more than once and often appear on overheads I call choruses or worship songs - are you looking for favourite choruses as well?
Holy Holy Holy Marion |
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Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Oct 00 - 01:35 AM John, where you at? I forgot... ~S~ |
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