#715: Christ, Be Our Light

[lutheranhymns]

The weird-ish thing about this song is that the verses are given a consistent meter, even though there's a lot of variation in syllables. Like, there are several notes that are written as one note tied to another, so that if you were to sing only one syllable, you just stretch it to take up the whole length, but if you sing two, you just repeat the same note. (light/shelter, truth/water, own/building). Despite this, the tune is "9896"...and refrain. Even though the refrain is the same every time so there isn't any approximation!