Old hymns that you still love

I get goosebumps even thinking of some of these- And Can It Be is a wonderful hymn. Good old Charles Wesley.

Love Divine ,Make me a channel of your peace sang at my mam's funeral and All things bright and beautiful always lifts my spirit

Mine are;

And Can It Be.
Calon Lan (Welsh).
How Great Thou Art.
The Lords My Shepherd.

Hymns sung in Chapels in South Wales, and the roof didn’t blow off.

When I survey the wondrous Cross

Cwm Rhondda- Guid me oh thou great redeemer.

Calon Lan

The Old Rugged Cross

Now - How Great Thou Art

Yammy

Witzend

I love so many of these! Now have an urge to find a lot of them on YouTube.
And ‘Eternal Father Strong To Save’ (For Those In Peril On The Sea) - it was my father’s favourite - he was RN and spent two years in the Battle of the Atlantic - very lucky to survive. We played it at his funeral.

It was my father's as well. Another R.N. on landing craft at DDay and in the Far East for two years with Americans helping the invasion of the Japanese Islands. He used to joke and say when they were assembled on deck leaving port they all stood and sang it.
At his funeral we had The old rugged cross, he wasn't a singer and it was the only hymn he knew all the words to.
My favourite is
Dear Lord and father of mankind forgive our foolish ways.
I didn't have it at my wedding for obvious reasons.

For many years Eternal Father was sung in every working men's club in Hull that had connections to the fishing community at 9 o clock on a Saturday evening. The losses of the families involved and the risks that men were still taking made it very personal. Still love that hymn.

Witzend

I love so many of these! Now have an urge to find a lot of them on YouTube.
And ‘Eternal Father Strong To Save’ (For Those In Peril On The Sea) - it was my father’s favourite - he was RN and spent two years in the Battle of the Atlantic - very lucky to survive. We played it at his funeral.

It was my father's as well. Another R.N. on landing craft at DDay and in the Far East for two years with Americans helping the invasion of the Japanese Islands. He used to joke and say when they were assembled on deck leaving port they all stood and sang it.
At his funeral we had The old rugged cross, he wasn't a singer and it was the only hymn he knew all the words to.
My favourite is
Dear Lord and father of mankind forgive our foolish ways.
I didn't have it at my wedding for obvious reasons.

I love so many of these! Now have an urge to find a lot of them on YouTube.
And ‘Eternal Father Strong To Save’ (For Those In Peril On The Sea) - it was my father’s favourite - he was RN and spent two years in the Battle of the Atlantic - very lucky to survive. We played it at his funeral.

It sounds a bit like For All the Saints...?

Chocolatelovinggran
Talking of RVW and hymn tunes - do have a listen to this (from about a minute in) - 'Pan is our all' - but what hymn tune did it become www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZHVTr1w6L8

Not religious, but I can still sing along to hymns I sang when I was young. Dear Lord and Father of mankind is one favourite.

algy, I read your list and immediately had a flashback of me being in my first communion dress and walking in a procession. Bring flowers of the rarest

I absolutely love the welsh hymns that I heard so often when we lived in wales, especially calon lan. Very nostalgic

So many memories brought back by this thread. Our school hymn was “Now thank we all our God” - brings tears to my eyes when I hear it.

The King of love my Shepherd is
We plough the fields and scatter
Jerusalem

I love the Welsh choirs singing hymns. Absolutely wonderful. Bread of Heaven etc.

Some of the hymns named here are modern hymns to me!

From schooldays -

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Hills of the North, Rejoice

Morning has Broken (my favourite)

All the Harvest hymns

Lots of others

I adored Prayers at school because of the hymns, and the psalms, which we sang to Anglican chant. My love of this music, and the words, was nothing to do with religion!

Thanks nanna8 for this thread. Reading through all the hymn titles has brought back wonderful memories of schooldays and onwards.

"Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" - Hymn No. 481 - imprinted in my memory - always a school favourite. And just to read the title "We Plough the Fields and Scatter" immediately brings visions of the school Harvest Festivals.

I am loving this thread.

How great though art is one of my favourite hymns

For All the Saints (splendid tune)

To Be a Pilgrim ( I believe it)

The Spacious Firmament on High ( its science is nonsense but the imagery and tune are evocative)

All the old Christmas carols.

I'm a church goer so sing many of these hymns on a regular basis. Greyduster, I learnt that Vaughan Williams was instrumental in rearranging familiar tunes to meet the words of hymns, many of which we sing today. One of them was the melody of the Ballad of Maria Marten in the Red Barn, which, in original form, tells of murder and the hanging of the guilty party!

I forgot,
Hear us Oh Lord,from Heaven Thy dwelling place.

And can it be that I should gain
In Heavenly Love Abiding
I heard the Voice of Jesus say

There are so many lovely old hymns

I'm a lapsed Methodist too, by the way. There seem to be a lot of us here.

I love the words of Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. They are so calming.

"GeorgeKirrin" I forgot Oh Love that will not let me go. Beautiful hymn.

I have YouTube hymn playlists.

It’s amazing how they come back to you,isn’t it? I used to go to a church that only sang the old hymns,nothing else and I so miss that aspect of that particular church. The one I go to now has a mix of old and new but mainly new. I am getting used to the newer ones but they don’t have quite the same stirring qualities if you know what I mean. Not the same associations,anyway. I hope these lovely old hymns don’t die out.