#492: Eat This Bread, Drink This Cup

Time signature is 4/4, except there's one random 2/4 measure thrown in the refrain. Key signature is a little weird; the refrain is in D major (two sharps, C and F). The verses are written the same way, ending on A, which is the fifth note of the D scale. That's fine. Except, C and F are almost never sharp in the verses--they have "natural" written in every spot but one, and that one has a (not strictly necessary) sharp sign to be like "no, this one really is F sharp." They could almost have saved on ink by just getting rid of the key signatures and naturals and just writing in that F-sharp as if it was in A minor. But then, that doesn't quite get the "feel" across either! (I go back and forth on whether there is an abstract "feel" of the key to get across in sheet music. Some days I'm strictly formalist and like "any of the ways of writing this are equivalent." Some days it's like..."I don't think the verses are actually in A minor, but I couldn't tell you what they are 'actually' in, if anything."