Soccer and Song Two (with a lovely twist)

 


Sir Bobby Charlton, English footballer exquisite, and mensch.

I wrote the other day about "Abide with me" as one of his funeral hymns.

Another was "How Great Thou Art".  It's not one of my favourite hymns, but then again it wasn't my funeral!

They sang "Jerusalem"  (Blake/ Parry)  "And did those feet in ancient times, &c".  'Tis one of those songs which is half way on the tongues of even secularised English women and men. Sadly it's also  become a jingoistic song for the English left and right political parties; Labour and Conservative.

But what about the "dark satanic mills"?  My English literature teacher in High School believed that Blake (the Romantic), was railing against the rationalistic mills of Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

( Incidentally the Episcopal Church Hymnal 1982 uses the Parry tune for a hymn which begins with "Oh Day of Peace"  but it's rarely sung.)

My lovely twist and goose bump moment when I saw that a wonderful adaptation of Psalm 23 was sung at the funeral.

It's known as Brother James' Air.

Oh my goodness I learned this as a nine year old when my school choir sang it as arranged for sopranos and altos.

It haunts me to this day.   Thanks to Sir Robert Charlton's family for stirring up a precious memory.

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