SONGS WE REMEMBER

Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) British singer and songwriter wrote the famous and endearing song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (1957) for his to be wife Peggy Seeger. According to Seeger his one great ambition was to write a song “that would sink so deep into the memory of a nation that they would forget who made it up… and he did just that.”
(I read this quote in: “A Primer For Forgetting” Lewis Hyde)

Many songs could be in this category: songs we never forget… or, Songs We Remember. Here are five old hymns in that category:
‘Amazing Grace’- John Newton 1772
‘How Great Thou Art’- Carl Boberg 1885
‘Abide With Me’- Henry Francis Lyte 1847
‘Be Thou My Vision’- Dallan Foragill ancient Irish melody 6th to 8th century
‘Great is Thy Faithfulness’- Thomas O. Chisholm and William M. Runyan 1923

So many more songs both secular and spiritual could be added… (I could have us all humming ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ for the next 48 hours)

“And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me.” Jesus