Our Glee Club did a full chorus version of this beautiful song in the 1950s, and it's been a favorite of mine ever since. Chris and Elliott, together again, mixed themselves into an equally majestic chorus, and the arrangement is right up their alley -- full of dissonances slowly resolving themselves before taking off again. Chris, I know, put many such chords in his own arrangements, and they sorta became a Home Free signature as well. Thank you for bringing this beauty to yet another audience! Happy Christmas to you!
I love this melody. It got used by a swedish poet and musician in a song on my side of the Atlantic in the 1960ies and when I was checking out that song, I discovered that the melody was collected by an American musician in the Appalachians in 1933. He got the first lines from a local girl and then worked out the rest of the hymn. The Swedish song is a totally different thing, just using the same melody, which I love for its own merit.
I must admit it looked like an English churchyard at the beginning to me, though that might have been assuming too much. The song on the other hand, I think is American, I don't remember hearing it growing up, though it is beautiful.
Our Glee Club did a full chorus version of this beautiful song in the 1950s, and it's been a favorite of mine ever since. Chris and Elliott, together again, mixed themselves into an equally majestic chorus, and the arrangement is right up their alley -- full of dissonances slowly resolving themselves before taking off again. Chris, I know, put many such chords in his own arrangements, and they sorta became a Home Free signature as well. Thank you for bringing this beauty to yet another audience! Happy Christmas to you!
I love this melody. It got used by a swedish poet and musician in a song on my side of the Atlantic in the 1960ies and when I was checking out that song, I discovered that the melody was collected by an American musician in the Appalachians in 1933. He got the first lines from a local girl and then worked out the rest of the hymn.
The Swedish song is a totally different thing, just using the same melody, which I love for its own merit.
I must admit it looked like an English churchyard at the beginning to me, though that might have been assuming too much. The song on the other hand, I think is American, I don't remember hearing it growing up, though it is beautiful.