Titanic - Nearer My God To Thee
The melody of this song was played by the band on the Titanic while it was sinking, after striking an ice-burg in the North Atlantic. This gave rise to the popular Sinhalese sentence 'NAEVA GILLATH BAND CHUNE" - meaning that 'even when the ship is sinking, the band is playing'.
Nearer, My God, to Thee
André Rieu - Nearer, My God, to Thee (live in Amsterdam)
Nearer, My God, to Thee
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uses, see Nearer
My God to Thee (disambiguation).
"Nearer, My God, To Thee" – cartoon of 1912
"Nearer, My
God, to Thee" is a 19th-century Christian
hymn by Sarah Flower Adams,
based loosely on Genesis 28:11–19,[1] the story
of Jacob's dream.
Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain
place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of
the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place
to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and
its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and
descending on it..."
The hymn is well
known, among other uses, as the alleged
last song the band on RMS Titanic played
before the ship sank.
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Lyrics[edit]
Nearer, my
God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E'en
though it be a cross that raiseth me;
Still all
my song shall be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Chorus: Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
Though
like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness
be over me, my rest a stone;
Yet in my
dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to Thee, etc.
There let
the way appear steps unto heav'n;
All that
Thou sendest me in mercy giv'n;
Angels to
beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee, etc.
Then with
my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
Out of my
stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
So by my
woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee, etc.
Or if on
joyful wing, cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon,
and stars forgot, upwards I fly,
Still all
my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee, etc.
A sixth verse was later added to the hymn
by Edward
Henry Bickersteth Jr. as
follows:[2]
There in
my Father’s home, safe and at rest,
There in
my Savior’s love, perfectly blest;
Age after
age to be, nearer my God to Thee, etc.
