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Thread #145687 Message #3377112
Posted By: Haruo
16-Jul-12 - 01:03 PM
Thread Name: Seeking maritime hymns
Subject: RE: Seeking maritime hymns
Here are some suggestions that have come in from the United Methodist Music Facebook group:
Joyce Gaines: The Navy Hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," is a beautiful hymn and prayer. The music is by Rev. John B. Dykes with words by William Whiting. ... "The Good Old Gospel Ship" and "Peace, Be Still" (from the Cokesbury) also follow the theme. ...
Scott Spencer: "Blue Boat Home"
Taylor Watson Burton-Edwards: Here are several ways forward... Use our "Reverse Lectionary" to find the Church calendar dates when particular scriptures citing the theme you're looking for are used. The "Reverse Lectionary" is here:
Then, go to those dates or those weeks in our Lectionary Planning Helps (we've got everything posted for the past three years) and look at the hymn suggestions for that week. Our Lectionary Planning Helps page is here: When you get there, just look in the left column for the year you need (we have archives there as well!). Our Lectionary Hymns helps include a wide variety of official and unofficial UM hymn sources.
Or... use the texts you find there on textweek.com or other lectionary-related sites to find texts and tunes
Or... use the topic or the scripture references to look up songs in The Hymnary-- an online database of just about every hymnal published in the last 200 years, here:
United Methodist Book of Worship Scripture Readings Listed According to the Books of the Bible | GBO www.gbod.org General Board of Discipleship
Leland Bryant Ross Good idea. I hadn't thought of using the lectionary in reverse like that (I always consult it, at Vanderbilt, when planning special music for a Sunday service). Thanks, TWBE.
Taylor Watson Burton-Edwards: That's why we have the Reverse Lectionary available on our site! It makes the UM version of the lectionary more useful for non-lectionary worship planners as well. Spread the word that we have it!
Lee Roorda Schott: Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me. There's a contemporary version where you can actually feel the motion of the waves.
Lee Roorda Schott: I Will Make You Fishers of Men. I learned it that way in Sunday School. When I use that tune now, I change it to I Will Make You Fish for People, for reasons I hope are obvious.
Leland Bryant Ross: I understand the motivation for that change, Lee, but it doesn't follow the cadence well for me, at least the way I learned the tune.
Lee Roorda Schott: You just have to adjust a bit. :)
Jo Dene Romeijn-Stout: When the storms of Life are Raging, Stand By Me. Love Lifted Me. When the Waves Are Crashing (W&S 3144). We Sailed a Ship with a man named Jonah (to tune and in style of What do you do with a Drunken Sailor).
Leland Bryant Ross: Thanks, Jo Dene Romeijn-Stout, I hadn't seen that Jonah song before. It turns out to be by E J Bash, ©1964 ALC, for those who need to know. I once wrote a whole (what I called a) Comic Worship Oratorio on Jonah, "Jonah Was a Prophet (Minor)" which had a number of usable texts, will remind myself to use some as appropriate. Probably the best is to "The PhÅ"nician Merchant Tar" to the tune of "British Grenadiers", but unfortunately it's about faith in Ashtoreth, Baal and Moloch...
Pat Hawn: Lord, You Have Come To The Lakeshore.