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03 Aug 08 - 07:24 PM (#2404575) Subject: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: GUEST,fiddler434 Help! My husband and I are suppose to play the Naval Hymn at the funeral of a friend. He would like to have someone out there help with the cords. We are playing it in the key of C. |
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03 Aug 08 - 07:53 PM (#2404586) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: curmudgeon If you can read music notation, it's in virtually every standard hymnal. A few years back at th e Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, when the evening concert was held in a church, Danny Spooner directed the audience to the number in the hymnal and led the song with full participation - Tom |
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03 Aug 08 - 08:00 PM (#2404587) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: GUEST I have the sheet music, but still need the guitar cords |
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03 Aug 08 - 09:05 PM (#2404610) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: Cap't Bob You wil find them at: http://www.higherpraise.com/lyrics6/e/6258.htm Most like will have to make a few adjustments. Cap't Bob |
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03 Aug 08 - 09:30 PM (#2404614) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: Cap't Bob The following may be of some help on the above link. (C)Eternal Father (F) strong to (C)save, whose arm hath bound the (G)rest(D)less (G)wave. who (G7)bids the (C)mighty (A7)ocean (D)deep (B7)its (Em)own appointed (B7)limits (Em)keep The way the chords are written seem o.k. for the remainder of the lyrics ~ the only problem is that the (B7) is shown a bit late .in the second, third, and forth verse . Example 2nd verse "....(B7)Wher(Em)ever 3rd verse...... (B7)save (Em)all... 4th verse ...... (B7)pro(Em)tect..... Cap't Bob |
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04 Aug 08 - 01:20 AM (#2404658) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: GUEST,Marymac90 I know this was a thread about the chords or music of the hymn, but I just want to throw in my two cents worth about the lyrics. Most service songs seem to talk about how brave, tough, etc, our troops are. This song actually admitsand talks seriously about how we are sending troops into harms way, and they might not all come back. I think that makes it unique, and it's a great opening line for conversations about the wars we're currently in, etc. Smooth sailing, Marymac |
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04 Aug 08 - 01:51 AM (#2404661) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: GUEST thanks so much Cap't Bob!!!!! |
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04 Aug 08 - 11:22 AM (#2404884) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego I have lived in a Navy town for over 41 years. My wife's father and grandfather were both career officers, Captain and Rear Admiral, respectively (I was enlisted Army). Both were aviators and carrier commanders. We have gone to a number of funerals, theirs and those of old family friends. That hymn, taking into account all the family separations, long voyages and sea battles of that generation, still chokes me up whenever I hear it done well, especially by a Navy choir. |
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04 Aug 08 - 11:41 AM (#2404910) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: greg stephens Marymac90 writes: "This song actually admits and talks seriously about how we are sending troops into harms way, and they might not all come back." I have never connected this hymn with sending troops into harms way, though I suppose it could read that way. I have always seen it as being about the perils of the sea, not the perils of being in the navy., All(OK, most) sailors use and venerate this hymn, fishermen, lifeboatmen whatever.YOu fefinitely don't need a naval uniform. There is a tiny reference at the end that includes hostilities as one of the dangers of the sea, but that is all: "From rock and tempest fire and foe Protect them wheresoe'r they go". But perhaps the author was a naval man, and was thinking more of war than I was? |
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04 Aug 08 - 05:04 PM (#2405173) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Greg Stephens: You are, of course, quite right to note that the song was not originally intended simply for warriors - naval personnel, et al. It was, most especially in the age of wooden ships and imperfect navigation, a prayer shared by all who travelled on the sea or who had to combat the elements to save lives. |
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04 Aug 08 - 06:16 PM (#2405236) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: Malcolm Douglas The words were written c.1860 by William Whiting, master of Winchester College Choristers' School, and the melody by John Bacchus Dykes, a clergyman. Neither seems to have had any obvious seafaring connections, though Dykes was born in Hull. Of course, there can't be that many people in England who don't have maritime connections somewhere in the family, so it is (or at least, was) an ever-present concern. |
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27 Apr 12 - 10:32 PM (#3344250) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Naval hymn From: GUEST,Mark I sang with the "Bluejackets Choir" when I was in Great Lakes boot camp. About fifty of the best voices I've ever sung with. The Navy Hymn has a range of dynamics that will give any vocalist the chills. |