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Thread #9726 Message #1996082
Posted By: GUEST,JTT
14-Mar-07 - 04:03 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hail Glorious St. Patrick
Subject: RE: Hail Glorious St. Patrick
If you want to hear it, there's a great album of all those Irish hymns, Faith of Our Fathers.
It has Hail Glorious St Patrick (which my mother always blaimed for the fact that it usually hails and rains on the parades on St Patrick's Day), and other camp classics such as Holy God, We Praise Thy Name, Salve Regina, The Bells of the Angelus, and the gloriously pagan Queen of the May - "Bring flowers the fairest, bring blossoms the rarest, from garden, and valley, and woodland and vale; our glad hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling, the praise of the loveliest flower of the May..."