Comfort, comfort now my people CWBII 238

I’ve blogged: 237 My Soul in Stillness Waits (Haugen)

(in Gather Australia 280 but better set out in CWBII and with chords!)

This is another traditional song for Advent from CWBII. The text is from 1671 based on Isaiah 40:1-5 was written by Johannes G. Olearius and translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in 1863.

The tune is FREU DICH SEHR/ GENEVAN 42, written by Louis Bourgeois in 1551. The words and tune are public domain. The tune is basically 6/4 with some 4/4 bars in the middle. The version I have in Worship puts in barlines for people like me who struggle without them. Apart from having no chords the sheet music in CWB is identical to the version from Hymnary below.

Oh dear my version is much too slow, this is much better.