Enough of the nooze already! This hymn’s been in my mind all day, and to me that means I ought to post it. In the Sweet By and By–and who better to play it for us than our own esteemed colleagues, the Swanson Brothers, Joshua and Jeremy?
Kick back and let this gentle hymn wash over you… Ah! That’s good!
No one ever had a more mellow voice than Burl Ives–ideal for singing old-fashioned hymns: the kind of hymns that are still loved today, many years after they were written.
Hymns like this one–In the Sweet By and By.
Here’s another version of this lovely old-time hymn, this one by The Mennonite Singers–In the Sweet By and By. It’s awesome to me, the way they can blend human voices into a glorious musical instruments. Background sets by God the Father.
One more Burl Ives hymn, all right? In the Sweet By and By…
I’ve reached the age where there are more people waiting for me in the sweet by and by than are waiting for me here.
Okay! We’ve finally got Joshua and Jeremy singing, so let’s give them a big hand! Well, we can’t really do that on computers, but you know what I mean.
Published in 1868 and still going strong, In the Sweet By and By–performed here by Nathan and Lyle, with family and friends, in Denton County, Texas.
This hymn is coming to you this morning by the miracle of modern computer technology–if it works. It doesn’t always.
So, keeping our fingers crossed (’cause I’m not actually here), here’s In the Sweet By and By, performed by Nathan and Lyle with family and friends, in Denton County, Texas. I do wish I could be there for one of these hymn-sings.
It must have been tricky, getting all these Fountainview kids with their instruments, plus a big piano, onto a raft and out on the water–but the acoustics must have been worth it: a lake enclosed by mountains, a natural amphitheater. And we love those old-fashioned hymns–for instance, In the Sweet By and By.
I went out on my bike early this morning, and something about the quality of the light, I guess, brought this hymn to mind–and lovely days with much-loved people who are in this world no more–that, and God’s promise, which only God can perform, to renew and restore His whole creation, and to regenerate it in perfection.
In the Sweet By and By was written in 1868 by Sanford Bennet and Joseph Webster, performed today by Nathan and Lyle and friends and family in Denton County, Texas.
A dear old hymn from 1868: In the Sweet By and By.
I love the way these folks in Denton County, Texas, do hymns. For more, visit their website, http://music-folk-play-hymns.com/ .