O Little Town of Bethlehem

[Jack Ryan]

Doesn't this song sound a LOT like the old "O Walk With God" Kingdom Song?

The piano is almost identical

@JW Insider

[JW Insider]

Sounds more familiar to one of the Green 1950 songs, but I can't remember which one for sure. I'm hearing two of the old songs mixed together in it. The affinity is very close to the progression and cadence of the old Kingdom Song, "God's Army Is Advancing" (Now named: "God's Warriors Are Advancing" but with a different tune.) In the old song, if divided into 4 "stanzas," the music to stanzas 1, 2 and 4 are very similar. I think this song is even closer to the 1950 version of "All Hail the Lord's Anointed. (2)" which was called "Christ's Glorious Reign" in the 1948 edition.

Several of the older Kingdom Songs (1966) use the same rise and fall, and therefore seem to end with nearly the same last 10 notes (Be Long-Suffering, Be Strong In Faith, All Hail Jehovah's Firstborn, Pouring Out the Seven Last Plagues, etc.).

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Oh little town of Hiroshima

How still we see thee lie.

Beneath those cold and bombed out skies

the Strontium clouds roll by.

And in the twighlight's gleaming

The bombs unearthly light

The hopes and fears of all the years

Are blown to hell, tonite.