Diary entry 6.6.21, 'Be Thou My Vision on the Road'

Multi-tracked violin, home recordings created, performed and recorded by Alison Blunt.

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The traditional melody, 'Slane' is an old Irish folk tune associated with the ballad "With My Love on the Road" in Patrick W. Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909). It became a hymn tune when it was arranged by David Evans (PHH 285) and set to the Irish hymn "Be Thou My Vision."

The hymn lyrics are believed to have been written by the sixth century Irish poet, Dallán Forgaill. Mary Elizabeth Byrne, M.A. (July 2, 1880 – January 19, 1931) translated the Old Irish Hymn, "Bí Thusa 'mo Shúile," into English as "Be Thou My Vision" in 1905.

The number of verses and some of the phrases differ in various sources.
 
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
naught be all else to me save that thou art;
thou my best thought in the day and the night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,
I ever with thee and thou with me Lord;
thou my great Father, and I thy true heir;
thou in me dwelling, and I in thy care.

Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight,
be thou my armour, and be thou my might,
thou my soul's shelter, and thou my strong tow'r,
raise thou me heav'nward, O Pow'r of my pow'r.

Riches I need not, nor all the world's praise,
thou mine inheritance through all my days;
thou, and thou only, the first in my heart,
high King of heaven, my treasure thou art!

True light of heaven, when battle is done,
grant heaven's joy to me, O bright heav'n's sun;
Christ of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.

Be Thou My Vision on the Road

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Mixed and mastered by Christopher Willits and Ryan Kleeman at Overlap Studio
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4th track from the upcoming debut album "Se Vino del Cielo" by Tropico del Cancer.
Album release on the 4th of May 2018 via bandcamp.

Played, mixed and produced by Juan Pino (marimba, calabasa, vocals).
Mastered at Lava Studio by Christopher Juul.

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In the last 6 years I have been traveling to the Andes and the rain forest of Ecuador and Colombia, to the Alps, to Lapland and to the Ganges’ banks. Back in Copenhagen at my garden-home-studio, alone with all kind of acoustic instruments, I gathered impressions, compositions, poems and improvisations. This I named Tropico del Cancer.
5 tracks made it to what is now my debut solo album. Looking at it I realized it represents these 6 years’ journey to this point of my life: the birth of my daughter; from being on my own to the meeting with my wife and finally the little one coming down from the sky. Se Vino del Cielo...

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