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This month's Free
Tablature is Lyrics - Sarah Flowers Adams, 1841 Music - Lowell Mason, 1856 ("Bethany")
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"Nearer My God to Thee" was written in 1841 by Sarah Flower Adams, a singer, actress, and poet from London, England. When she was forced to retire from the stage due to various health issues, she turned to writing poetry. A minister named William Johnson Fox, who happened to be a friend of the family, was working on a new volume of hymns for his newly formed church, and asked Sarah to write some new hymns for it. The words for "Nearer My God To Thee" was one of those. The original melody that was paired with poem was written by Sarah's older sister, Eliza. Fox sent a copy of the hymn book to a friend of his named James Clarke, who was the minister for a Church of the Disciples congregation in Boston, MA.
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text for "Nearer My God to Thee" soon appeared in a number of other hymnals,
paired with a variety of different melodies. In 1856, the hymn came
to the attention of Lowell Mason, who was a music teacher in a Boston area
public school. He was so taken with the words that he was inspired to
write a new melody for them, which he titled "Bethany". Paired with
Mason's tune, the hymn quickly spread to a number of other major denominational
hymnals, including the official Presbyterian hymnal. Mason is often
credited as being the founder of music education in the American public school
system, and also went on to write more than 1600 additional hymns, including "My
Faith Looks Up to Thee", "From Greenlands Icy Mountains", and the Christmas
carol "Joy to the World".
The hymn has also been included in a number of historical footnotes. The last words of President William McKinley, as he lay dying from an assassin's gunshot in 1901, were reported to be "Nearer, my God, to Thee, E’en though it be a cross, has been my constant prayer.”
It is also reported to be the tune played by the band aboard the Titanic in 1912 as it sank after striking an iceberg.
Here's a link to a YouTube video of wonderful version of this tune performed by violinst Andre Rieu.
In music and friendship,
--Tull
Lyrics
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me;
Still all my song would be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
Though like the wanderer, the sun gone
down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
There let the way appear steps unto
heav’n;
All that Thou sendest me in mercy giv’n;
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
The with my waking thoughts bright with
Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise;
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
Or if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upwards I fly,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
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