As summer yields her hidden fruit
And autumn cedes her golden charm
To winter days and frosty nights;
As long hours of aestivation
Through equal days of light and dark
To long shades of hibernation
Do resign; to escrivation
My pen does now with will embarque
To inscribe for you a meet word
To which with good will all shall hark:
For in august tones on a summer day
The new year’s ingression shall not inveigh,
But rather for your health and good essay.
| Now, Zacchaeus was a very little man, and a very little man was he. He climbed up into a sycamore tree, for the Saviour he wanted to see. And when the Saviour passed that way, he looked up in the tree, and said: Now Zacchaeus, you come down, for I’m coming to your house for tea. I am coming to your house for tea. Yes, I am coming. I am coming to your house today for tea. Now Zacchaeus went a very little way and a very little way went he; and when he welcomed Jesus in, some changes we would see. ‘I’ll split my goods in half’, he said; ‘Give one half to the poor; I will pay back what I’ve cheated you and times it all by four!” | Jesus said to him, today salvation has come to your house For the Son of man Has come to seek and save the lost Now, Zacchaeus was a very little man, and a very little man was he. but Jesus who was sent to us came to die on the Roman tree He came to look for those who were lost to find and save them all; and what he did for Zacchaeus he can do for you and me For God so loved the world He gave his Son to come and save us, So believe in him; receive eternal life |
You may have sung Zacchaeus to this tune once or twice before, but if not…
Words: Traditional/Unknown
Music Lambton Whorm Traditional/John Bull
The copyright of this arrangement of the music is held by Stuart Moffatt (© 2022).
The midi file was produced using Noteworthy Composer.
The mp3 was produced using Myriad software.
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Whilst Saturn sings above the tree
Jupiter jives in mystery
And Mars meanders in the sky.
The crooked Moon hangs upon the cloud
Which Venus feigns to not come nigh
Where Mercury rests within her shroud.
Left
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return
And come with singing unto Zion
And everlasting joy shall be
upon their heads. upon their heads.
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return
And come with singing unto Zion
And everlasting joy shall be
upon their heads. upon their heads.
They shall obtain They shall obtain
gladness and joy gladness and joy
And sorrow and sighing
shall flee away. shall flee away.
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return
And come with singing unto Zion
And everlasting joy shall be
upon their heads. upon their heads.
Right
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return
And come with singing unto Zion
And everlasting joy shall be
upon their heads.
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return
And come with singing unto Zion
And everlasting joy shall be
upon their heads.
They shall obtain
gladness and joy
And sorrow and sighing
shall flee away.
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return
And come with singing unto Zion
And everlasting joy shall be
upon their heads.
Music: Ruth Lake Words: Ruth Lake © 1972
The copyright of this arrangement of music a cappella is held by Stuart Moffatt (© 2022).
If you wish to perform it then to be safe you are likely to need a CCLI licence or hard copies of Scripture in Song, or another book containing this work, though the writer remembers learning the song from another who merely had a guitar and a voice, and seems to think that that might have been before 1972, but then the song may have been in circulation before it appeared in print.
For the avoidance of doubt, the version here is for educational purposes to illustrate the use of a close coupled group of female voices to bring to life a gospel song.
The midi file was produced using Noteworthy Composer.
The mp3 was produced using Myriad software.
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Nothing happened
The day has arrived*; the dragons are unleashed. How excited are you? Two bank holidays and a weekend, and still it is May the twenty second for some. It is time to reveal the finale, having come across Lambton Worm, a tale about a young squire who went fishing on a Sunday morn when he should not have done with terrible consequences for the people who lived on both sides of the Wear, Coco thought Coco would paraphrase some of it with another dragon tale about a different young squire (young ‘un) in a not so proper dialect sung in an awful Geordie accent.
Continue readingCoco came across the Lambton Worm recently, in proper dialect sung in a wonnerful Geordie accent. It is a tale about a young squire who went fishing on a Sunday morning when he should not have done with terrible consequences for the people who lived on both sides of the Wear.
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Come all you virulent strains
Of singers to unite.
Vibrant songs bring hymns of praise
In joyful aires tonight.
Delightful is the day
Perhaps we may reflect
And ponder in a way
Regarding time elapsed,
‘Til at the end we do repair
Soon to rejoice – another year.
Ruth, the Moabitess is an opera.
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There was no interference
It was a news report this morning that suggested a song with refrain to Auld Lang Syne:
