Listened to the album that features this song in the car this afternoon. It’s worth posting again as a Sunday song. From the Jill Phillips and Andy Gullahorn album Christmas. The lyrics: 1. Nations that long in darkness walked Have now beheld a glorious light; On them who dwelt in shades of death The light …

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Pacific Gold adapted lyrics from the hymn Work For The Day Is Coming for a song recorded on their album Sing My Welcome Home. You can listen in the player. These lyrics fit the advent theme. We know that a day is coming Down a path of pain The one who arrived a stranger, Coming …

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Paul Baloche has produced a couple of Christmas themed albums. This Is Love / Come Thou Long Expected Jesus is a track from the first of the two, and is a good example of taking a verse from an existing hymn and building a new song around it. The use of the melody most commonly …

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