Monday, April 20, 2009

The Lord's My Shepherd

Verne Eke (Fremont Baptist's organist) and I have tentatively settled on a main theme (Psalm 23) and rough date (October) for a first attempt at an Evergreen hymn sing. I eagerly await nominations from the floor of songs based on that Psalm that it would be good to sing. Some of those already in the hopper (which doesn't mean they will all be used) include:
  • Malotte's 23rd
  • Lucie Campbell's The Lord is My Shepherd
  • John Peterson's Surely Goodness and Mercy
  • Ralph Carmichael's New 23rd
  • God Leads Us Along
  • The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Dominus Regit Me? St. Columba?)
  • The Scots 23rd ("The Lord is my Shepherd, in naught am I wanting")
  • My Shepherd Doth Supply My Need
  • Bwana Mungu ni Mchunga Wangu (Swahili, by Samweli Syengo)
  • The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want (Crimond)
  • He Leadeth Me
  • There Were Ninety and Nine
  • ... name a couple dozen others please ;-) - I'm especially interested in treatments from the hymnic explosion of the late twentieth century, and in non-English-language treatments susceptible of englishing.
Leland aka Haruo