It's deputy blogging time!
Today I was working with some recordings of mine. One of them was an arrangement of 'Come, Christians Join to Sing'. However, there seemed to be a character limit in the filename, and so one possibility for the name was 'come christians join to sin.wav'
Naturally, this mistake was promptly corrected, but I began to wonder about the rhyme. The hymn goes:
Come, Christians, join to sing
Alleluia, amen
Actually, 'Come, Christians, join to sin' is a much better rhyme! Compare, sin-amen, sing-amen. I have to wonder if the hymnodists noticed this. I bet they did, but sometimes one just has to compromise on word choice to stay theologically consistent.
Deputy blogger out!
Labels: hymn
"...Thou shalt commit adultery..."
Oh, those crazy hand-printers.
: 14 August, 2006 17:55H-m-m... Sadly, for some, that's for the other six days a week, once they've done their religious duty and joined to sing!
Thanks for the interesting comment. Caught my eye because, today, as I write, is the 196th anniversary of the birth of the author of the hymn in question (Christian Bateman).
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