Oh Lord, my God

When I, in awesome wonder

Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder

Thy power throughout the universe displayed

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in

That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing

He bled and died to take away my sin

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

WTAF?! We used to sing it on Sundays back in the day, not really 1900s or 2000s though, no wonder it fell out of fashion! It took me a while to realise how utterly bonkers it is, when you deconstruct it, it could be about superman, or some fantasy perverted schoolmaster, it’s euphoric for sure, dated of course,  it it’s from 100+ years ago, we sang it in the 60s &70s, they probably still do in older churches where the dreaded tambourines haven’t taken over! I love quality & always have done, our church singing was pathetic apart from Bob Hayward, he was at the back, I assume he liked church cos it was somewhere he could come and sing loudly, you can’t do it at home, not at that volume – our congregation would be 30 or so miserable sounding wingers well out of tune, backed by an organ that had to play so softly or else drown us out entirely, we were a tuneless mess, we just sounded uninspiring, dying ex humanity, but then Bob’s thunderous voice would come in “Then sings my soul, to thee how great thou art” totally saved the day! 30+ souls accepted into heaven all thanks to one man!🙏

  Best (& only reference) I came up with was the film Zulu, British empire circa 1800s! Were we really still there? Many seemed to think we were, no one really gave it thought, no need! We already know the answer!

thing is, no one ever stops to think, who is this superman character you sing of? Today’s politics are crazy, I prefer to look back on past craziness than today’s, it seems safer to think about the past as it’s now so irrelevant, but really it’s the same, I know it, but I still go there for escapism, one day we will realise there is no yesterday or today, it’s all now, but until then, everything is fucked & we may as well carry on!