As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Burke
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 10:48 PM

Refer to the old thread for mine. Most of what I sing is hymns or 'spiritual songs'

Neither How can I keep from Singing or Simple Gifts are Quaker Hymns. Simple Gifts is a Shaker song. How can I keep from Singing is words by Anne Steele late 1860's with music by Robert Lowry. Lowry's compositions can be found in many evangelical hymnals. The attribution to the Quakers was a mix up by Pete Seeger.

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: GUEST, WYSIWYG
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 10:36 PM

Here is the beginning of a wonderful journey through the land of hymnody, not so long ago:

CLICK THIS

Or in case my clicky failed, paste this URL into your browser:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=26348

This went to a part Two, and there should be a clicky on to it from the above. Maybe someone will go back into Part Two and add a clicky that comes to this thread, for people to use later on when searching hymn threads.

BTW, I was called "Praise" back then but have since had a name change that changed my post entries retroactively.

Have fun!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 09:09 PM

"The Halleuja Side"..."Only Remembered".."Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown"....."The White Pilgram"...."Beulah Land"...."Almost Home"....."Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet"..."Meeting in the Air"...."Cabin in the Corner of Gloryland"...

and almost anything by Mrs C.S. Morris...Pentacostal shouting and marching at its best!

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Matt_R
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 09:01 PM

Oops, it's called "The Love of God", not "What Can Seperate Us".

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Lanfranc
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 08:53 PM

"Dear Lord and Father of Mankind", sung to CHH Parry's beautiful tune "Repton".

"My song is Love Unknown", words by Samuel Crossman (1624-83), setting by John Ireland. IMHO one of the most exquisite marriages of words and music in existence.

"Just as I am", to the tune used in "Olivet to Calvary"

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 08:28 PM

Let The Lower Lights Be Burning

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: R!
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 08:08 PM

Pange Lingua and Tantum Ergo have always been favorites of mine. I love the sound of Latin hymns. Jerusalem is good, too.

Reen

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: GUEST,guestguestguest(intruder)pagan
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 07:27 PM

love church music, hate church...

have to put it this way...

Amazing Grace

Gaudete

and that St Patrick song that goes...

"hibernia's champion saint all hail, with fadeless glory crowned"

and i have been know to celebrate St Swithin's day, april 14

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 04:59 PM

It's Jerusalem, and it's Englands green and pleasant land.

My favourite for all sorts of reasons, the main being it's high and loud - Guide me O thou great Redeemer/Jehovah - to Cywm Rhondda. Had it at my wedding, my daughter's christening, my father's funeral, it just fits so many things.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: GUEST,Annette
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 04:48 PM

My favourite is may be not a hymn, but the song with "And we shall build Jerusalem, on Englands green and pastured land".

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Banjer
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 03:58 PM

Its hard to pick a favorite! I like most all the gospel hymns, and some that aren't considered church music. One of the latter that jumps readily to mind is Reno & Smiley's 'I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap'

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Hawker
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 02:39 PM

Yep, Love a lot of what has been said myself, and when you start thinking, theres loads (bit like traditional songs really - which they are of a fashion!)

Blessed Quietness is another God's Railroad to heaven is another - the tune is the same as Union Miners - and the reference to railroads gives you its age! God's aeroplane is Good fun too Let the light from the lighthouse....

Help!!!I could be here all night!!!!

Jerusalem has to be favourite too Oh, and I vow to thee my country

Defining a hymn may be a touchy subject! my old man has said the one we knew someone would.....it the opposite to a her (yawn)

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 02:37 PM

How great thou art and I vow to thee my country (which for someone as unpatriotic as me is a little bizarre, but my brother had it at his weddng and it brings back memories)

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Katcina
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 02:19 PM

In The Garden

My Grandma sang it to me when I was little and it still frequently runs through my mind.

KatC

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: nutty
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 02:16 PM

Now that, bflat, is another question -I would not attempt to give a definition of "a hymn"

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Matt_R
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 02:15 PM

On Eagles Wings
Come To The One
What Can Seperate Us?
You Are Not Alone

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Sourdough
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:55 PM

Faith of Our Fathers

and

Lead on Oh, King Eternal

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: bflat
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:55 PM

Nutty, if you feel The Magic Penny is a hymn then okay. It was a song written by Malvena Reynolds. I'm no scholar but I doubt it was intended for an audience of children which it certainly has become popularly used among.

Two of my favorites are Quaker Hymns: How Can I Keep From Singing and Simple Gifts.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: nutty
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:40 PM

The Hymn I most love to sing with children has to be THE MAGIC PENNY

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Sarah2
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:39 PM

I still love that Anglican children's hymn, "The Saints of God."

I sing a song of the saints of God
Patient and brave and true,
Who toiled and fought and lived and died
For the Lord they loved and knew.

...etc. (It's in the DT, I see.)

Sarah

Subject: RE: BS: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: nutty
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:36 PM

My great-grandmother taught me " The Old Rugged Cross " which I still love although it isn't heard very often these days

"Morning is Broken" never fails to bring joy to my heart but the hymns that gave me my love of harmonies, are probably the non-conformist ones - such as " And Can It Be" and "Blessed Assurance"

Subject: As it is Sunday...Favourite Hymn?
From: Hawker
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:27 PM

I was sat in church with my children this morning and we sang 3 hymns. The third was The Lord's My Shepherd.... and I found myself thinking it is a shame that this hymn is oh so often saved for funerals, I prefer to sing it to Crimmond than the usual chuch version, but it is a lovely hymn. I would be hard pushed to pick a favourite, but I love... There is a green hill far away Brightest and best and MOST of the Christmas carols!

What about you lot out there..... What is your favourite hymn? (You don't have to conform to a religion to like hymns!)

Happy Sunday, Lucy