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29 May 01 - 12:42 AM (#472088) Subject: Nearer My God to Thee From: GUEST,Louis Lee Would you please find me the lyric of the song Nearer My God to Thee . Thaks a lot . Louis Lee llee@active.com.hk
Lyrics sent by e-mail. -Joe Offer- |
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29 May 01 - 01:06 AM (#472092) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: Helen Hi Louis,
The lyrics are
A really good search engine to use is put the title, or any phrase you are searching for in double quotes, e.g. "nearer my God to thee". Helen |
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17 Aug 01 - 01:41 AM (#529926) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: Genie If you have not found the lyrics yet, please email me at genie@hotmail.com. [You can find the words and music in just about any Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, etc., hymnal.] |
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17 Aug 01 - 04:54 AM (#529970) Subject: ADD: Autumn (hymn) From: Mark Cohen "Nearer, My God, to Thee" is often said to be the song played by the band on the Titanic as it went down. I don't know if that's the reason that Louis Lee was interested in it. But here is a fascinating account from a book called "The Sinking of the Titanic, and Great Sea Disasters", published in 1912, soon after the disaster: As the vessel disappeared, the waves drowned the majestic hymn which the musicians played as they went to their watery grave. The most authentic accounts agree that this hymn was not "Nearer, My God, to Thee," which it seems had been played shortly before, but "Autumn," which is found in the Episcopal hymnal and which fits appropriately the situation on the Titanic in the last moments of pain and darkness there. One line, "Hold me up in might waters," particularly may have suggested the humn to some minister aboard th edoomed vessel, who, it has been thought, thereupon asked the remaining passengers to join in singing the hymn, in a last service aboard the sinking ship, soon to be ended by death itself. Following is the hymn: God of mercy and compassion! Look with pity on my pain: Hear a mournful, broken spirit Prostrate at Thy feet complain; Many are my foes, and mighty; Strength to conquer I have none; Nothing can uphold my goings But Thy blessed Self alone. Saviour, look on Thy beloved; Triumph over all my foes; Turn to heavenly joy my mourning, Turn to gladness all my woes; Live or die, or work or sufer, Let my weary soul abide, In all changes whatsoever Sure and steadfast by Thy side. When temptations fierce assault me, When my enemies I find, Sin and guilt, and death and Satan, All against my soul combined, Hold me up in mighty waters, Keep my eyes on things above, Righteousness, divine Atonement, Peace, and everlasting Love. It was the musicians of the band of the Titanic -- poor men, paid a few dollars a week -- who played the music to keep up the courage of the souls aboard the sinking ship. "The way the band kept playing was a noble thing," says the wireless operator. "I heard it first while we were working the wireless, when there was a rag-time tune for us, and the last I saw of the band, when I was floating, struggling in the icy water, it was still on deck, playing 'Autumn.' How those brave fellows ever did it I cannot imagine." Aloha, Mark |
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17 Aug 01 - 09:41 AM (#530096) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: katlaughing Thanks, Mark, that is fascinating and sent chills up my spine. NMGTT is also sung at every Bethel meeting/ceremony of Job's Daughters, an org. for young women sponsored by the Masons. I well remember the beauty of kneeling with my fellow "Jobies", in white robes, with only candlelight and singing this beautiful hymn in our clear, sweet voices. It has a special place in my heart. Thanks, kat |
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18 Aug 01 - 04:17 AM (#530682) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: masato sakurai On the music played on the Titanic, J. Marshall Bevil wrote a paper "And the Band Played On: Hypotheses Concernng What Music Was Performed Near the Climax of the Titanic Disaster." It was very interesting to me. |
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18 Aug 01 - 12:25 PM (#530801) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: Pinetop Slim Geez I love the neat stuff that turns up here. Definition of thread creep: The bridge to serendipity. |
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18 Aug 01 - 05:01 PM (#530876) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: Mark Cohen Masato, that is a fascinating paper, and I think the conclusions makes perfect sense. First, "Songe d'Automne" (not the hymn "Autumn"), and then at the end a setting of "Nearer, My God, to Thee". Whatever the details, though, I agree with kat -- it is a terrifying scene to imagine. And yet, one that can give the musicians among us, I think, a small sense of pride. Aloha, Mark |
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18 Aug 01 - 05:21 PM (#530879) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) If anyone is interested in the origin of "Nearer...", the music is by Lowell Mason and words by Sarah F. Adams, 1841. |
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18 Aug 01 - 05:32 PM (#530886) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Apparently stories differ and no one knows for certain what was played if anything. The evidence is the old "someone said the radio operator said..." See the site http://members.aol.com/Aravantis/titanic/som.htm |
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19 Aug 01 - 10:17 AM (#531121) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nearer My God to Thee From: masato sakurai I thought Bevil's conclusions quite convincing. As a reference, I link to another site. In addition to Lowell Mason's familiar BETHANY tune (midi version), you can hear less familiar ones (AMERICA, HORBURY, LIVERPOOL, Arthur Sullivan's PROPIOR DEO, and ROTHWELL) here.
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