Hymn - Resignation

Subject: Hymn - Resignation
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 03 May 04 - 07:44 AM

yesterday the closing hymn at church was to the American Folk Tune 'resignation'

VERY familiar tune - and I'm sure there is at least one popular secular song set to it - but I cannot thing what it is. Several others in the congregation thought the same.

Anyone have any ideas?

Subject: RE: Hymn - Resignation
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 03 May 04 - 07:53 AM

midi and a southern Harmony hymnn at the link

url=http://www.ccel.org/s/southern_harmony/sharm/sharm/hymn/t=Resignation.html

Subject: RE: Hymn - Resignation
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 03 May 04 - 08:21 AM

I don't know of a popular, secular song........but.......I love this tune!!!

Hear another midi here. (My Shepherd Will Supply My Need)

And also, I have a dulcimer CD, Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer, in which Jean Ritchie (we love you Jean) plays a medley of Resignation and Goin' to Boston.

Subject: RE: Hymn - Resignation
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 May 04 - 05:28 PM

Sounds a little like Lone Pilgrim.

~S~

Subject: RE: Hymn - Resignation
From: Burke
Date: 03 May 04 - 07:30 PM

This is one that I knew before I ever got into folk hymns. Virgil Thomson did an arrangement in the 1930's that may have helped with its spread. He also used it in the film score for The River. There are many, many more as you can see if you search the first line in Google. Did your church use "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need" or other words? I suspect it is now in a lot of hymnals. It's in the Episcopal

The same basic tune is in the Sacred Harp with the title of Irwinton & different words. This was actually in the earliest edition of Sacred Harp, taken out & put back in with the 1991 edition. I wish we used the "My Shepherd" words.

Subject: RE: Hymn - Resignation
From: Burke
Date: 03 May 04 - 07:56 PM

Sorry that link did not work. Let me try again:

Irwinton