4th Sunday – Light of those in darkness dwelling
The fourth of the hymns from Charles Wesley's "Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord".
Today we have, "Light of those whose dreary dwelling" which is the eleventh hymn in the original book.
A hymn which although preparing us for the birth of our Saviour, concentrates on the second coming of our Lord. A slow rocky tune to this one. I really liked the words of this one and wanted another powerful song.
The original words are perhaps a little more restrained than my version. I also felt that the second half of the second verse would make a wonderful chorus and so it is used like that.
As "usual" the original words are in the left column so you can see how I have revised them.
In a bit of self indulgence. Before I created the above version, I created a heavier rock version with quite a bit of guitar shredding in it. The way the section "Come and show to us your favour" came together in this version "persuaded" me to create the "chorus" version. If Ian honest I prefer this version but suspect others may not join me, I have posted it as the second version below so they are all together.
Credit again goes to Mr Wesley for his magnificent hymn writing and Suno.com for the wonders of the music generation they have made possible.
I hesitate to claim copyright on these re-writes but under the terms of the Suno licence, the music is owned by me and possibly copyright me. However, copyright is a minefield at the best of times and more so in the A.I. world.
