Prepare the Way, O Zion CWB II 245

I’ve blogged the next few in CWB II already:

242 O Come, O Come Emmanuel

243 Open the Heavens, Lord (Brian Boniwell gets a well deserved Advent slot!)

244 On Jordan’s Bank the Baptists’s Cry

“Prepare the Way, O Zion” is another fairly ancient Advent hymn from a text by Frans Mikael Franzén. CWB II uses the translation by Charles P. Price, which was itself an adaption of the translation by Augustus Nelson. The tune in BEREDEN VAG FOR HERRAN, a seventeenth century Swedish tune, which I have also seen called MESSIAH.

Hymnary have the Price text at their site.

I like this tune a lot for its invention and uplifting nature.

That didn’t stop me from cribbing the chords from the MIDI file on Hymnary and attacking it with fake BIAB organ.

This is the same music as CWB II with the original “Nelson” translation. (NB the first line of the melody is repeated – does that it make it the blues?)