. . . From my ditty bag, where else?
I like to write new tunes for old texts and new texts for old tunes. Most aren't great hymnody, but some are worth singing now and then. Some twenty years ago, I set myself the task to see if any tune, however unlikely, could be made to bear a Christian text. I picked the unlikeliest tune I could find: the old fox-hunting song, "John Peel." I kinda like the results; it ain't profound, but it is fun to sing.
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