No hymn requests this morning, but that’s okay–here’s a hymn I wanted, found myself softly whistling it to myself last night: Light of the World, by Charles Wesley. Sung the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
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‘It Came Upon a Midnight Clear’ (English Melody)
I didn’t know there was another melody that goes with the lyrics of It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, so I got quite a surprise when I heard this–by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. Lovely melody! Given its finished form by Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame. The melody we’re used to in America is about 30 years older, published in 1850.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.