MamaT's Monday Music

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And a little taste of music from our Easter mass, though certainly NOT on guitar. (I must admit I'm crazy about it on guitar, and wish I could play it, just like this guy does!) I'm giving you the youtube video of the music, and a bonus of the words! Lucky ya'll.

Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,
Wheat that in the dark earth many years has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

In the grave they laid Him, Love Whom we had slain,
Thinking that He'd never wake to life again,
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

Up He sprang at Easter, like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Up from the dead my risen Lord is seen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

When our hearts are saddened, grieving or in pain,
By Your touch You call us back to life again;
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

You know how you always secretly plan your funeral, and think, "Yeah, that's one of my funeral hymns!" (What, you don't do that? Yes you do. You know you do.) Well, this is one of mine.

Enjoy!

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We just rehearsed this in our parish choir for use during the Easter season. We are using a very interesting harmony from the Oxford Book of Carols. A beautiful piece! Thanks for posting the beautiful guitar cover.

Oh....I love that. I too plan my funeral music, but now, with an elderly mother, I'm planning hers.
Not in a morbid way, but I saved the words and music for when I need it. She has picked the hymns she loves (all Easter hymns I think) but I'll want something I pick I'm sure.

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