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Phemie said:
I think you’re looking for “This Day God Gives Me”
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I got the book, can’t find what I was thinking of, and the one you mentioned above just doesn’t seem familiar. You’d think I’d remember some of the words, but I don’t. There’s another one to the same tune, called Baptized in Water.

I just read the words to Away in a Manger, and it looks like the same thing I’ve been singing since 1950.
 
With O Come, O Come… I’ve only been used to seeing 4 verses: Emmanuel; Rod of Jesse; Dayspring; & Key of David. CBW III has the other 3 verses and puts them in the order that the O antiphons are said. Unfortunately they’ve also modernized the language so we no longer see thou, thee, thine or thy.

ccel.org/contrib/latin_hymns/Veni_Veni_Emmanuel.html

As for the Bible, it was the NAB that I checked to see the copyright symbol and, as I said, I was quite surprised to find it there. In Canada we use the NRSV for the lectionary – for now at least. When the new lectionary comes out with the changes that Rome has ordered, there will not be a Bible translation on earth with the exact same translation as our lectionary. I don’t know why they didn’t just keep the Jerusalem Bible translation we had before the NRSV. Oops, perhaps I do, it wasn’t politically correct enough for the feminists.
 
daeve said:
I got the book, can’t find what I was thinking of, and the one you mentioned above just doesn’t seem familiar. You’d think I’d remember some of the words, but I don’t. There’s another one to the same tune, called Baptized in Water.

I just read the words to Away in a Manger, and it looks like the same thing I’ve been singing since 1950.
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Here’s the “new and improved” Away in a Manger:

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.
The stars in the night sky looked down where he lay.
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.

The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.
but little Lord Jesus no crying he makes.
I love you Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
and stay by my side till morning is nigh.

The first two stanzas are anonymous; however, the third was written by John T. McFarland. They didn’t change the words to the third verse in the new version. While they tweaked verses 1 and 2, I just didn’t see the need for the editing. The original version was just as nice.
 
benedictgal said:
Here’s the “new and improved” Away in a Manger:

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.
The stars in the night sky looked down where he lay.
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.

The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.
but little Lord Jesus no crying he makes.
I love you Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
and stay by my side till morning is nigh.

The first two stanzas are anonymous; however, the third was written by John T. McFarland. They didn’t change the words to the third verse in the new version. While they tweaked verses 1 and 2, I just didn’t see the need for the editing. The original version was just as nice.
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Ok…I seem to recall the poor Baby wakes, no night – just sky-y – and thee instead of you.

Well, if those are the changes, yep, I do see them. I guess they didn’t bother me enough to even remember them. You hear you and your instead of thee, thy, thine. I have a DVD with the Rosary and the Divine Chaplet. I play it in the car on my long drive home everyday. I’m saying Blessed Art Thou, and they’re saying Blessed Are You…I don’t even notice that anymore.
 
Cat Stevens doesn’t exist anymore…He is now Yosef Islam and he is borderline miltant.
 
daeve said:
I got the book, can’t find what I was thinking of, and the one you mentioned above just doesn’t seem familiar. You’d think I’d remember some of the words, but I don’t. There’s another one to the same tune, called Baptized in Water.

I just read the words to Away in a Manger, and it looks like the same thing I’ve been singing since 1950.
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If that’s
Baptized in water
Sealed by the Spirit
Cleansed in the blood of Christ our King…

we sing that to SCHONSTER HERR JESU not BUNESSAN.

“Away in a Manger” hasn’t been in our last two Canadian Book of Worship and I don’t think it was in the first one either. It doesn’t strike me as a very liturgical text, more suitable for private prayer than Mass.
 
benedictgal said:
Here’s the “new and improved” Away in a Manger:

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.
The stars in the night sky looked down where he lay.
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.

The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.
but little Lord Jesus no crying he makes.
I love you Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
and stay by my side till morning is nigh.

The first two stanzas are anonymous; however, the third was written by John T. McFarland. They didn’t change the words to the third verse in the new version. While they tweaked verses 1 and 2, I just didn’t see the need for the editing. The original version was just as nice.
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“The baby awakes” is what I learned some 48 years ago but I think it was “bright sky” which really makes a lot less sense than night sky.
 
benedictgal said:
That’s why I cringe every time I hear a hymn set to Morning Has Broken. It’s just awful.
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But since he wrote neither the lyrics nor the music but recorded a song which had been written in 1922, I don’t see a problem. Well, I don’t see a problem with using it but I just loathe the tune and it has nothing to do with Cat Stevens/Yousseff whoever.
 
Phemie said:
“The baby awakes” is what I learned some 48 years ago but I think it was “bright sky” which really makes a lot less sense than night sky.
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Actually, the version I learned was:

the stars in the skyyy (emphasis on the “i” sound).

Christmas carols didn’t really pop up until about the 19th century, although there are some which appeared back in the 17th. While Away in a Manger may not have the obvious “liturgical” undertones, it is fitting for the Christmas season and there is nothing doctrinally challenging about the song, per se.
 
Phemie said:
If that’s
Baptized in water
Sealed by the Spirit
Cleansed in the blood of Christ our King…

we sing that to SCHONSTER HERR JESU not BUNESSAN.

“Away in a Manger” hasn’t been in our last two Canadian Book of Worship and I don’t think it was in the first one either. It doesn’t strike me as a very liturgical text, more suitable for private prayer than Mass.
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Those are the same words, in the Breaking Bread Hymnal, set to Bunessan. I don’t know the other melody you refer to, at least not by name. Hum a few bars and maybe I’ll recognize it.
 
On Christmas, I deliberately chose to do the first verse only of several carols specifically so those that new them could sing them the traditional way. I had the numbers available for everyone else, but I sang the traditional words.

"Peace on the Earth!! Good will toward MEN!!!
 
daeve said:
GOOD JOB! I recognized the melody immediatley. We sing Blessed by Your Sacrifice to that melody. My book has St. Elizabeth as the composer. Underneath the song it says, Music: trad.Silesian Melody; Hoffman and Richter’s Schlesische Volkslieder, Leipzig, 1842

Yes, that`s what the CBW III says too.
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