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Sadako Ogata 05

Courtesy of Arann Reformed Baptist Church (http://arann-reformed.com/) in Dublin, Ireland for this recording.

Psalm 1 (Tune: Spancil Hill)

Wrote this one bloody ages ago, but it made its proper Anvil debut at E3 2023 during the Virtue's Roar performance. The recording lacks a certain something compared to the live performance (such as another 15 bards all playing along).

This is another one that started off as an idea for a filk that I couldn't actually make work, but i liked some of the lyrics i had and so I just rewrote the music around it. 

The sharp eyed/eared may hear the ghost of the original inspiration in the lyrics of the second verse, especially if they are of a musical theatre persuasion. ;) 

My thanks to Emma for providing the epic backing vocals for this one (and for the gift of the portable studio device it was recorded on).

I still suspect that the scream at the end is too much, but it continues to make me smile and so I'll continue doing it in the field whenever I have the voice to belt it out. 

FUN FACT: The final vocals for this were recorded in my car after I drove to the middle of a building site with my porta-studio as I was too self conscious to the shouty-screamy vocals at home where the entire neighbourhood would hear.

What We Came For

10 Hold My Hand And We're Halfway There

Psalm 120 sung acapella From the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Recorded in Greenville Presbyterian Church (Free Church Continuing), USA.

3  What shall be giv'n thee? or what shall
       be done to thee, false tongue?
 4  Ev'n burning coals of juniper,
       sharp arrows of the strong.

 5  Woe's me that I in Mesech am
       a sojourner so long;
    That I in tabernacles dwell
       to Kedar that belong.

 6  My soul with him that hateth peace
       hath long a dweller been.
 7  I am for peace; but when I speak,
       for battle they are keen.

ThePsalmsSung.org

Psalm 120 (Tune: Dundee)

Points

Ch 10 40 to 42 2 weeks - 5 years

Glasgow C - Psalm 22:21, St David

PSALM 27 sung acapella from Sing Psalm (2003)(Produced by the Free Church of Scotland) Recorded at Dowanvale Free Church.

2 When evildoers threaten me
to take my life away,
My adversaries and my foes
will stumble in that day.

3 Although an army hems me in,
my heart will feel no dread;
Though war against me should arise,
I will lift up my head.

4 One thing I’ll plead before the LORD,
and this I’ll seek always:
That I may come within God’s house
and dwell there all my days—

That on the beauty of the LORD
I constantly may gaze,
And in his house may seek to know
direction in his ways.

What We Came For

Andrew Ruddick