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The melody of the refrain is almost exclusively climbing up the C-major scale (no sharps or flats, so easy to play on a piano). Which means it was one of the first things I "sightread" when I was learning how to read sheet music.

Also, not very often that you see parentheses in the text! "Immanuel" means "God with us," and so the last verse says "God (Immanuel) everywhere!" (Chrome doesn't like this spelling of that proper name but it's one of those Hebrew words you can transliterate in a bunch of different ways.) I suspect that another reason I gravitated toward this as a little kid, besides the easy scale, was that as a littler kid I had gone to "Immanuel" pre-kindergarten, and once I moved before first grade sort of wrongly internalized that my difficulty making friends was mostly due to being the new kid rather than just bad at socializing, so I had a weird kind of nostalgia for everything to do with my hometown. #autisticblogging

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