#762: Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy

[lutheranhymns]

So I ran across this one a couple weeks ago at communion, since the "holy holy holy lord" stuff fits in well there too. The meter is surprisingly tricky: it's a little bit like "America" from West Side Story, in that it alternates between 6/8 and 3/4. All the measures are the same length, but you're alternating between two groups of three ("I like to Be in a") and three groups of two ("me-ri-ca"). Here, the lyrics are basically the same thing ("holy, holy, holy...." you get the point) so it's not very intuitive where the stress should land. It was originally in Spanish, but that has the same issue.

The communion text is actually slightly different from this, that one also had parts for "amen, amen, amen, amen..." and other parts of the communion liturgy. (Edit February 9): but it also includes this text's verse about how God with is us in our (collective) struggles.