Today's hymn is a folk song of the sort that can go on forever, so long as people think up new verses for it. And it's an American spiritual, loved the world over.
I found an amazing Louise Armstrong version, with Jewel Brown singing back-up. Oh my!
And I appreciate your remark about the beauty of the voice being a separate thing from the quality of the singing, itself. Just as our Lord ‘writes straight with crooked lines,’ so does beautiful song come from broken singers…..God is good!
I began college in the 70's, at Tulane University. To be honest, I couldn't take the heat and humidity, and had to leave. But boy! The music in the French Quarter .. out on the street! .. was amazing. Really famous musicians were still there in those days.
Hahaaaaa! I spent a few days trying to figure out what hymns featured bird song! And "Sing a Song of Sixpence" got stuck in my head. But Fr. Bailey's comment above gives me a good line, which harkens to those four and twenty in the pie: "Oh when those birds begin to sing, O when those birds begin to sing!"
I found an amazing Louise Armstrong version, with Jewel Brown singing back-up. Oh my!
And I appreciate your remark about the beauty of the voice being a separate thing from the quality of the singing, itself. Just as our Lord ‘writes straight with crooked lines,’ so does beautiful song come from broken singers…..God is good!
I should add—not at a club, just playing up a storm on a street corner.
I began college in the 70's, at Tulane University. To be honest, I couldn't take the heat and humidity, and had to leave. But boy! The music in the French Quarter .. out on the street! .. was amazing. Really famous musicians were still there in those days.
When my late husband saw Louis Armstrong playing at Mardi Gras some time in the late ‘50s when he was in the Air Force.
Lucky him!
Not quite apocalyptic but how about
Oh when the birds sing out God’s praise…..
In "Give Me that Old Time Religion," I liked "It was good in the fiery furnace!" and "It was good in the rising waters!"
When I first saw the caption, I tried to think of a blackbird verse I might have heard. :)
Hahaaaaa! I spent a few days trying to figure out what hymns featured bird song! And "Sing a Song of Sixpence" got stuck in my head. But Fr. Bailey's comment above gives me a good line, which harkens to those four and twenty in the pie: "Oh when those birds begin to sing, O when those birds begin to sing!"