#807: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Jun. 29th, 2020 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsI sort of want to say my high school band did an arrangement of this, which would be an odd thing for them to do, but maybe it was some kind of "old British songs" arrangement? Like Vaughan Williams, but not that.
Anyway, it features a mention of "Ebenezer," which is actually sort of a word when it's not referring to Scrooge--it references a monument that the prophet Samuel built to God, attributing success in battle to God's help. In the hymn, it rhymes with "pleasure," which Scrooge's name does not, but I can't tell if that's a slant rhyme or if the Biblical word is actually a perfect rhyme.
It also has a couple mentions of wandering: "wandering from the fold of God...bind my wandering heart to thee." This gave rise to me parodying it for a video game that my online sports friends were playing, since our soccer team was the "Atlanta Wanderers." As has been mentioned, soccer fans are weird.
Anyway, it features a mention of "Ebenezer," which is actually sort of a word when it's not referring to Scrooge--it references a monument that the prophet Samuel built to God, attributing success in battle to God's help. In the hymn, it rhymes with "pleasure," which Scrooge's name does not, but I can't tell if that's a slant rhyme or if the Biblical word is actually a perfect rhyme.
It also has a couple mentions of wandering: "wandering from the fold of God...bind my wandering heart to thee." This gave rise to me parodying it for a video game that my online sports friends were playing, since our soccer team was the "Atlanta Wanderers." As has been mentioned, soccer fans are weird.
