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Baptist Trainfan
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... and we're having it at our Carol Service on Sunday.
Your turn.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Yes it is, but its use is wider than that, as it comes from Scottish Paraphrases 1781 by John Morison which also means I think it must have been the third of the Christmas Carols allowed in the Canadian hymnbook Sober Preacher's Kid mentioned.
Jengie
This fantastic thread always gets me curious about hymns that I do not know, so I checked and it seems that this hymn also appears (in a limited fashion) within the C of E and ECUSA.
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Your turn.
Whose turn, you guessed it Baptist Trainfan
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Baptist Trainfan
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Tell me, my soul, full of God!
My soul's voice countless blessings;
I promised him the competition;
My heart rejoices in God my Savior.
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Jengie jon
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Tell out my soul by Timothy Dudley-Smith
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Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!
Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice;
tender to me the promise of his word;
in God my Savior shall my heart rejoice.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Ha! I think you may have got it from the same website I did - it has American spelling of "Savior" even tho' it's a British hymn!
Your go.
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Jengie jon
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You can check, as I linked to the website in the post!
Anyway a new one then as this is a bit specialised (a Scot should get it though):
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Baby crib,
Maria strange
abandoned children
and the Lord!
Children who have inherited
all the sin
we all losses
autumn calls
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Baptist Trainfan
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Hadn't realised it was Scottish - but you're quite right.
Child in the manger, Infant of Mary,
Outcast and Stranger, Lord of all,
Child Who inherits all our transgressions,
All our demerits on Him fall.
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Jengie jon
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Yes you are right.
It is popular in Scotland yet in my experience almost unknown in England despite John Rutter and Sarah Brighman having versions of it (discovered while googling for words for it)
My experience includes going to a Scottish University where when we mentioned we didn't know it we got "you don't know what?" back and attending a former Presbyterian URC, where I used the fact it was popular in Scotland to trace a copy for a Scot who'd failed to do so. It just never occurred to him that it might not be a common carol in England so he was reading through English Carol selection after English Carol selection.
Your turn.
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Baptist Trainfan
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This gets easier the further you get into it:
And celebrations will joy in singing and joy!
O praise our Redeemer, all living things on earth!
This is the birthday of Jesus, our King,
Who gave us salvation his praises we sing!
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Gracious rebel
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....looks like you forgot to translate the last two lines!
But since I can't remember how this one begins, I'll let someone else answer it
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Baptist Trainfan
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No, it's a whole verse. Often sung upstairs, looking down, possibly somewhere near Dorchester.
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Gracious rebel
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Sorry I wasn't clear. I realise it was a whole verse you posted. Just that the last 2 lines look almost completely unmangled, according to my vague recollection of this hymn. I can remember the tune but not exactly how it starts. That was all I was trying to say.
But now your mention of stairs and Dorchester has me completely confused!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Well, it is sometimes called the Dorset Church-Gallery Carol. Obviously my "clue" put your off the scent entirely.
Now someone should get it - hopefully!
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Jengie jon
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With the clue and boy I needed it spelling out, some help from Google I got this carol:
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Rejoice and be merry in songs and in mirth!
O praise our Redeemer, all mortals on earth!
For this is the birthday of Jesus our King
Who brought us salvation - His praises we'll sing!
I have sung it but not that often.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Yes, you are right. There is a good version of it sung by Maddy Prior and her Carnival Band - good raunchy folk-music stuff! I suspect it really needs to be played in a tithe barn in Tolpuddle or somewhere like that, complete with a set of viols, a shawm and a serpent!
I like West-Gallery music. Your turn ...
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Jengie jon
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This is well known so may be easy:
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Mothers and children in the light
on Christmas Eve,
Holy Night is calm.
Oh, honey, and by the end of peace,
peace, sleep,
sky, light, soft.
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Jengie jon
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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
This is well known so may be easy:
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Mothers and children in the light
on Christmas Eve,
Holy Night is calm.
Oh, honey, and by the end of peace,
peace, sleep,
sky, light, soft.
English->Hindu -> Korean -> Afrikaans -> Bulgarian -> Greek -> Chinese -> English
Jengie
Let me try reordering into the more usual order for the lines
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on Christmas Eve, Holy Night
is calm
Mothers and children in the light.
sky, light, soft Oh, honey,
and by the end of peace,
peace, sleep.
I am sure you know this German carol.
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kingsfold
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Looks somewhat like Silent night?
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Jengie jon
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Correct!
Strange how the fact the translation reordered the lines made such a difference.
Your go.
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Mamacita
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Well, darn it, "Silent Night" occurred to me, but I thought, no, it can't be. Well done you two!
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kingsfold
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Sorry - forgot I had to get back to this. Anyhow>
We are in East Kinigs Tuesday to provide gifts polished distance field Traverse Mountain Springs far following
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(I have no idea where Tuesday came from!!!)
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mousethief
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That couldn't be "We Three Kings" could it?
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kingsfold
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It could indeed. Over to you, Mousethief...
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kingsfold
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I takes my inspiration where I finds it...
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mousethief
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Well this didn't mangle as much as I'd have liked, but here goes. From English to English via Korean, Croatian, German, Chinese, and Slovak.
I would like to increase
I got a new height each
I am still connected to the prayer
Lord, high planting feet on the ground
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Baptist Trainfan
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I haven't a clue, although it sort of rings some bells.
Is it a Spiritual, by any chance?
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mousethief
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Well it's from the southern US tradition; I got it from a shape-note hymnal. It's not a traditional spiritual in that the hymnal gives the names of both the lyricist and the composer.
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Dennis the Menace
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Is it 'Higher Ground'??
"I'm pressing on the upward way
New heights I'm gaining every day
Still praying as I onward bound,
Lord plant my feet on higher ground."
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Good job! Over to you.
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Dennis the Menace
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This hasn't mangled all that well, fairly easy I think...
When we are in the light of the word of the Lord and although we are all people of goodwill still remains our trust and obedience and give glory to go on the road
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kingsfold
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Looks a bit like "Trust and Obey"
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Dennis the Menace
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it sure is, over to you.
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kingsfold
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Clear and the best children in the early morning darkness, and the support of celebrities adorning zikopeshe East, where our children can lead to frelsarans
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Dennis the Menace
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Could it be 'Brightest and Best are the sons of the Morning'?
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kingsfold
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Indeed it is. Your go.
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Dennis the Menace
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Good moring all, am having a time getting one to mangle and now have to rush off to work. Will back on board in about 10 hours form now.
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Dennis the Menace
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This one is very easy...
Rock ages Hisem With key Let Me Let You in my water and blood from you that the river flowed aspects of sin are two ways for medical rescue me from the guilt and power
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Mamacita
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quote:
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
let me hide myself in thee;
let the water and the blood
from thy wounded side which flowed,
be of sin the double cure,
cleanse me from its guilt and power.
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Dennis the Menace
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It is indeed. Your turn
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Mamacita
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Thanksgiving, the Lord Jesus, our great artists, the goal is, from a distance, the song of praise to deploy smart.
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Mamacita
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[stage whisper] Pssst! It's an Epiphany hymn! Some of you will be singing it this Sunday! [/stage whisper]
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Could it be this?
jesus shall reign where'er the sun
does his successive journeys run
his kingdom stretch from shore to shore
till moons shall wax and wane no more
It doesn't entirely fit the garbled version, but hey!
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Mamacita
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Nope. This one is particularly well-mangled! Look back at my post and see the first words in the two lines (as displayed on the screen). Put them together and you'll be close.
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Baptist Trainfan
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A search of the Internet comes up with this:
Songs of thankfulness and praise,
Jesus, Lord, to Thee we raise,
Manifested by the star
To the sages from afar.
But I've absolutely never heard of it! Might this be a "pond" thing?
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
A search of the Internet comes up with this:
Songs of thankfulness and praise,
Jesus, Lord, to Thee we raise,
Manifested by the star
To the sages from afar.
But I've absolutely never heard of it! Might this be a "pond" thing?
I'd entirely forgotten this, but no, this isn't a pond thing. I've sung this hymn more than once in CofE churches; I think it's in the NEH.
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Jengie jon
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I think Mamacita gave the reason away when she said it was an "epiphany hymn". Epiphany in non-conformist churches in England is something that rarely is noted (my home congregation change the colour of the runner on the communion table I think but they are very high).
So we don't use Epiphany hymns very often.
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
A search of the Internet comes up with this:
Songs of thankfulness and praise,
Jesus, Lord, to Thee we raise,
Manifested by the star
To the sages from afar.
But I've absolutely never heard of it! Might this be a "pond" thing?
Bingo!! Oremus lists it in a number of Anglican hymnals (which of course doesn't guarantee that it will actually be sung). I mentioned singing it this Sunday because the second verse mentions Jesus' baptism, which is celebrated in some places today -- although none of that was particularly helpful for shipmates in the Reformed tradition. So, over to you, Baptist Trainfan! Well found! [I do love this game and learning about people's favorites from so many traditions.]
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Baptist Trainfan
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Wow!
In view of the weather we've been having here in Britain, try this (very easy):
Summer sun is shining
Land and sea
Happy light is flowing
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