Cold Mountain- I'm Going Home

This is the ninth song from the soundtrack to the movie Cold Mountain, 2003. Traditional song. Performed by Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church.

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[mrsticks28]

This makes me feel in touch with my Lord... And whoever wrote substitute "muslims" and "72 virgins" is truly a flaming idiot. These lyrics don't advocate homicide bombing as a way to get to heaven. I hope to live many more years, but should that not happen, I am ready to meet my maker. Hope you can say the same, or do you feel you'll just be a clot of dust, moldering away with no hope of salvation.

[mbarrans]

@mammers wow...i'm glad i don't have to go through life with your skewed point of view. this is a song sung from the perspective that when it's our time, it's our time and we can't wait to be home with our Lord one day. All of this on earth is nothing compared to the glory of being with our Savior when HE so chooses to take us home. It's sad to read that folks like you not only don't have that hope, but have such tunnel-vision when it comes to faith and death.

[mh605]

@Tuckerx78 Haha! Maybe so.

[Tuckerx78]

@mh605 but IMAGINE. the middle east is the homeland of christianity. if this song were around then, it'd be like, the top hit of the 12th century!

[mammers11]

@mh605 Oh hey, it's been awhile since I heard from the Cold Mountain soundtrack people. But seriously, the commentary on this page is generally pious and dull. With some neo-Confederate piffle thrown in here and there...All I can say is, if one is incapable of simultaneously appreciating beautiful music while at the same time criticizing sinister lyrics, then one has no culture.

[mh605]

@Tuckerx78 A bit late, since the song was written in 1850.

[mh605]

@Grisbi6 see fasola.org to find singings near you. Anyone can attend. Free admission; no registration necessary.

[mh605]

@mammers11 Well, that definitely is the most out-there take on Sacred Harp that I've ever seen. Not a criticism, only an observation.

[mh605]

@DarkHorseDream This is the version from the movie.

[mh605]

@wombatweatheraxe1952 To continue my comment, The Sacred Harp has never been out of print; it has been updated in new editions every few years. When a new edition comes out, new songs are always added and some unused ones are taken out. So even though the book and the tradition contain some old songs, they contain new songs as well, written in that style. "I'm Going Home" was written by L.P. Breedlove in 1850.

[mh605]

@wombatweatheraxe1952 This is not quite accurate. This kind of community singing arose in colonial New England as a way to get people to sing better in the churches. In 1803, shaped notes were invented as a method of sight-singing. This method was used in many books. Still later, B.F. White published "The Sacred Harp" in 1842, and from the tradition that he created sprang all-day singing conventions. 

[NormbrettaMod]

@mbarrans

you're entitled to your faith. faith, at the end of the day, is hope and helps us when sided with reason too. saying your faith is truth and all others with different faiths are blind or evil is pathetic...