Wonderful song, sound, and video! I have noticed numbers on the songs. Do all the Sacred Harp singers use the same book...i.e. would #32 be the same to all? This interests me. I just wondered. Thank you for this wonderful song and video.
@MyMoppet52 : Thank you for your comments. Two main editions of the Sacred Harp are in current use, the red 1991 edition and the blue Cooper revision; the two have most of their songs in common, and most, but not all, of these have the same page numbers. This song is on page 332 in both editions.
"Judge not that ye be not judged" is the phrase that comes to mind. Who are you to judge people as 'idiots', an intellectual perhaps? The power of the heart cannot be 'understood', the power of the heart has to to be experienced, and as such remains a unique and personal thing, not to be understood but accepted and this allows transformation to take place.
God has many boats saving people's souls, provided they agree to take the boat; but he does not despise any of his sons knowing that the road to their heart is mysterious, this music in my heart is beautiful anyhow and that people have faith singing it makes it even more beautiful. I am an intellectual and a poet and never lost Faith. I am sure some atheist intellectuals would like it too.
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That tends to happen when you're in a room of Saved people -- i.e. actual believers singing this for God, not atheist intellectuals singing it as "art music".
Actually, there is a growing trend of "intellectuals" singing "Sacred Harp" music, not for the lyrical content per say but for the folkish artistic aspect of it. There are even groups from Australia and Europe that have started to sing it. I've heard some of these groups. It's not the same. It lacks the conviction that these "Saved people" sing with.
Bottom line: Your comment is ignorant (anti-intellectual) and prejedice.
@snotbog1 If not for the rediscovery by the "intellectuals" in the past few decades, though, the shape-note tradition might have died out by now . . . folklore-society types, mostly atheist, agnostic, humanistic, unitarian, universalist, at any rate NOT what you would call "born again." But they've revived sacred shape-note for city as well as country people across the Nation and even around the world. So it seems to me that God has been using them, will they, nill they. AND . . .
Wonderful song, sound, and video! I have noticed numbers on the songs. Do all the Sacred Harp singers use the same book...i.e. would #32 be the same to all? This interests me. I just wondered. Thank you for this wonderful song and video.
MyMoppet52 1 year ago
@MyMoppet52 : Thank you for your comments. Two main editions of the Sacred Harp are in current use, the red 1991 edition and the blue Cooper revision; the two have most of their songs in common, and most, but not all, of these have the same page numbers. This song is on page 332 in both editions.
mudws 1 year ago
This is the first leader I have seen clearly love this tune. I was not interested in it until I watched this Bud Oliver leading it
ClaireConrad 1 year ago
"intellectuals" are blinded by their "buddha mind " of limited delusion. Only idiots don't understand the power of the Heart. Sad.....
fairman1952 2 years ago
"Judge not that ye be not judged" is the phrase that comes to mind. Who are you to judge people as 'idiots', an intellectual perhaps? The power of the heart cannot be 'understood', the power of the heart has to to be experienced, and as such remains a unique and personal thing, not to be understood but accepted and this allows transformation to take place.
pugwashsecond 2 years ago
Marvelous! Thank you!
foifou 2 years ago
wow I will be calling this one next time I sing!
salsa838 2 years ago
Thank you. I've been so homesick for Sacred Harp, this video is so comforting to me.
Kikipotamus 3 years ago 2
God has many boats saving people's souls, provided they agree to take the boat; but he does not despise any of his sons knowing that the road to their heart is mysterious, this music in my heart is beautiful anyhow and that people have faith singing it makes it even more beautiful. I am an intellectual and a poet and never lost Faith. I am sure some atheist intellectuals would like it too.
belamoure 3 years ago 2
@belamoure i love it lol not that i'm that intellectual do ,but i'm the anti christ himself lol . it's just beautiful
smokesalot007 2 years ago
one can almost feel the faith- robust strong luminous -like angel's wrath.
belamoure 3 years ago
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That tends to happen when you're in a room of Saved people -- i.e. actual believers singing this for God, not atheist intellectuals singing it as "art music".
29vjGKfg783Gownc 3 years ago
Actually, there is a growing trend of "intellectuals" singing "Sacred Harp" music, not for the lyrical content per say but for the folkish artistic aspect of it. There are even groups from Australia and Europe that have started to sing it. I've heard some of these groups. It's not the same. It lacks the conviction that these "Saved people" sing with.
Bottom line: Your comment is ignorant (anti-intellectual) and prejedice.
snotbog1 2 years ago 2
@snotbog1 If not for the rediscovery by the "intellectuals" in the past few decades, though, the shape-note tradition might have died out by now . . . folklore-society types, mostly atheist, agnostic, humanistic, unitarian, universalist, at any rate NOT what you would call "born again." But they've revived sacred shape-note for city as well as country people across the Nation and even around the world. So it seems to me that God has been using them, will they, nill they. AND . . .
ClaireConrad 11 months ago
@ClaireConrad
True. Who knows, maybe the lyric content in these songs will put a stone in their shoe.
snotbog1 11 months ago