#812: Faith of Our Fathers

[lutheranhymns]

There's an interesting second-person update here. The original had "thee" everywhere, but the chorus changes it to "you" without problems; "we will be true to you till death." But the verse needs to keep it as "thee," to rhyme with "free."

Some of the culture-war bargaining can wait till next round, but a search suggests that even this version has already seen a lot of adaptations; the original verses were specifically about restoring/defending Catholicism in England and Ireland, so there were a bunch of verses about fighting for the specific brand of faith to prevail. So this one is more universally applicable.