Jean Long here -
Lynda - in singing "If you miss the train..." and then the "How Long" - it seems to me we wrote words to only the verse three times.  And my enemies,,, starts the third verse.

Can't fit any words to fit the chorus -  "A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, you will hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

What a tune!  My group sang this in the 60s - with the Peter, Paul and Mary harmony, of course.

Hey - might make copies of "The Other Singers" CD available in October.

Great memories,
Jean

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Lynda C <lynda860@outlook.com> wrote:
Dear Ann and David,  I ran across this song today that was used in the Ecumenical Institute with apologies to the original authors of the music.  In the spirit of John Wesley of putting religious words to familiar secular songs, these words were put to songs.  

I can’t get the words and music to come out right on the "How Long" song from my memory.  I’ll be in Chicago this fall and I’ll try to get one of the songbirds to sing it for me.  Anyway,  I thought of your plea.    I’m enjoying reading “Hillbilly Elegy” by J. D. Vance which gives me hope that things do change.   

Praying for the G-20 event coming up this week in Brussels.  

Lynda 



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Singing the Prayer Song

PRAYER

Tune: Aravah (Hebrew)

 

When I see my life

ever is torn

 

And loved ones

violated

 

And my failures are daily reborn

 

Then sorrow with 

heaven is weighted

Yet I can gladly em-brace every hour

 

And praise God’s 

inequity

 

I can sing of my blessings that shower

 

My joy

inexpressible be.

Now here I stand

battered to and fro

 

The chaos within

yet surrounding

 

I cry out my want and 

the lack that I know

 

And power from with-

out feel uplifting.

The weight of the world

on my shoulders I bear

 

I echo the 

voices that cry

 

The path of Mankind

with my agony bent

 

And my God I’ll fight on

‘til I die.

And Psalm 13


PSALM 13

Tune: Five Hundred Miles

 

How long, O Lord, wilt thou quite forget me?

How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long must I suffer anguish in my soul,

grief in my heart, day and night?

How long shall my enemy lord it over me?

Look now and answer me, O Lord my God.

Give light to my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

​lest my adversary say, "I have overthrown him,"

​and my enemies rejoice at my downfall.

But for my part I trust in thy true love.

My heart shall rejoice, for thou hast set me free.

I will sing to the Lord, who has granted all my desire.

 



Jim Wiegel
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