Sunday Hymn Post

An online friend told me she was an only child, and she and her mother sang together for hours on long car trips, and her mother taught her harmony by singing this song together. Today she is a lovely young mother of lovely young children herself, and she is using the same song to teach her own children to sing harmony. I had never heard it before. It's a pretty little tune with a sweet children's version of Psalm 23 for the lyrics:

God's Sheep Am I
(in God's Green Pastures)

# In God's green pastures feeding by His cool waters lie;
Soft in the evening walk my Lord and I,
All the sheep of His pasture
Fare so wondrously fine; His sheep am I.

* Sisters: Waters cool,
Brothers: In the valley;
Sisters: Pastures green,
Brothers: On the mountain,
Sisters: In the eve...ning
Brothers: In the evening
Everyone: Walk my Lord and I

* Sisters: Dark the night,
Brothers: In the valley,
Sisters: Rough the way,
Brothers: On the mountain,
Sisters: Step by step...
Brothers: Step by step.
Everyone: My Lord and I.

# Through the streets of the city in the darkness of the night,
Far from the fold, He heard my lonely cry.
Now I sit at His table in the palace of light;
His sheep am I.

Midi file

guitar chords

Saxophone

A charming home video found on youtube:


A less home-video quality but also charming foreign language version (Chinese, I think, but I sometimes confuse Chinese with Korean, wretched American that I am)


Finally, a lovely but frustrating instrumental version by an ensemble group (too much background chatter):