Second Week of Advent
12/07/2021
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness.
We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing,
and we all do fade as a leaf:
our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away;
thou hast hid thy face from us:
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Back in my Episcopalian days they had a song meant to be used in the "folk" liturgy. The refrain, as I recall was
God likes me just the way I am
I turned out just fine
I don't know where they got that idea.
Here's another setting, not however including the words above. This one is by William Byrd. I had never heard of the performers, who call themselves the Gesualdo Six. That certainly indicates good musical judgment on their part.
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