Two nights running I’ve heard this hymn, embedded in a TV show I happened to be watching. I take that as a sign that I ought to post it.
This is my favorite rendition of John Bunyan’s hymn, To Be a Pilgrim, by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. Belt it out there, Maddy! We need all the hymns we can get.
With no hymn requests coming in yesterday, I fall back on one of my favorite hymns to start today–John Bunyan’s hymn, To Be a Pilgrim, sung by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. Yes, I’ve posted it more than a few times before–but who’s counting?
I felt a special need for this particular hymn today. We’re living in tough and screwy times. But so did John Bunyan: and he wrote Pilgrim’s Progress, and this hymn, to help himself and us to get through them.
So here it is–To Be a Pilgrim, performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. And as a wise Christian lady once said: When times are tough, sing louder!
I’m so glad one of you included this in “Favorite Hymns”–John Bunyan’s hymn, To Be a Pilgrim, played and sung the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
There’s always room on the list; so if you have a favorite hymn you’d like to have posted here, just let us know.
After all the stress and craziness of this week, I think we deserve a quiet train ride on the Goathland Railroad, over the North Yorkshire moors.
He Who Would Valiant Be is John Bunyan’s hymn, To Be a Pilgrim, with a few of the words changed.
I haven’t posted this in a while, have I? To Be a Pilgrim, sung lustily and with good spirit by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band–I found myself singing it yesterday, as I drove to the White Castle. But I’m sure you would rather hear Maddy Prior.
Now they want us not to go grocery-shopping. What are we supposed to do for food?
Antidote: He Who Would Valiant Be, by John Bunyan, also known and loved as To Be a Pilgrim–complete with peaceful train ride over the North York Moors on the Goathland Railroad (steam locomotive and all).
Requested by Joshua, one of my very favorite hymns, To Be a Pilgrim, by John Bunyan: and belted out but good by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. The hymn may be better known as He Who Would Valiant Be, with slightly different lyrics; but we have it here as John Bunyan wrote it.
Among people who know me well, the word “optimist” is not likely to spring to mind. But as a member of the Chalcedon Foundation’s ministry, I can’t indulge that aspect of my personality. I have to try to be a cheerleader. My editor, Susan, thinks that’s a very funny position for me to occupy.
Listen to the hymn while I collect my thoughts. John Bunyan and Maddy Prior are better morale officers than I could ever be.
This is a dark period in history. I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t know that. We try to defend our Christian culture, but the ungodly attack from all directions. And I wind up writing about it, which doesn’t exactly pump me up and which I’m sure is no picnic for my readers. But we can’t just stand there and say everything is peachy, can we?
Everything is not peachy, and we might as well know it. If the human race were actually to do all the things that the ungodly insist we do, it would surely go extinct. Even if they got their world government, it would soon have no one left to govern.
What can any of us say? Trust in God and in His word, pray, comfort and support each other, speak nothing but the truth, put our heads down and work in Christ the King’s service–and grab a laugh when we can get it.
Because the last laugh will be God’s: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh (Psalm 2: 4).
I love this hymn and just have to post it now and then–To Be a Pilgrim, by John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim’s Progress. Performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. It’s the kind of hymn that adds some spark to your bark!
Also known as He Who Would Valiant Be.