Underappreciated Church hymns, overlooked or unknown


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A few include:

  • In Humility, Our Savior: The most beautiful sacrament hymn we have, bar none.
  • My Heavenly Father Loves Me: Like fine bread or mother's milk, it's an everyday miracle that we take for granted. One of the greatest hymns of all time.
  • The Wint'ry Day, Descending to Its Close: One of the most beautiful hymns in the hymnbook, though few Saints know it.
  • The Commandments: Simple Primary hymn, very pretty, easy to learn, and teaches you the ten commandments (and then some).
  • Mary's Lullaby: Very pretty, little-known, seldom-heard Christmas hymn.
  • Love at Home: The gist of the plan of salvation and the thrust of God's work and glory, presented in hymn form.
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A few include:

  • In Humility, Our Savior: The most beautiful sacrament hymn we have, bar none.

We sing that a lot at our ward.

  • Mary's Lullaby: Very pretty, little-known, seldom-heard Christmas hymn.

We just sang that in Primary last Sunday. I'm teaching them the whole shebang - two part harmony with the descant on the 2nd verse. I love that song! We're polishing up on it this Sunday in preparation for the special Sharing Time on the 23rd.

Here's one that I learned to love that I've never heard sung in our ward. The Primary sang a medley of this song and Because I Have Been Given Much for Thanksgiving sacrament meeting.

  • Father Thy Children To Thee Now Raise
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We sing 'Love at Home' fairly frequently. I cry like a freakin' baby every time. It's disgraceful.

That's better than laughing hysterically like I do whenever we sing In Our Lovely Deseret.

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That's better than laughing hysterically like I do whenever we sing In Our Lovely Deseret.

I don't laugh hysterically, but I do giggle enough to not be able to sing it. I usually sing the Singles Ward version.

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Also "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me" and "How Gentle God's Commands".

Speaking of uncomfortable laughter . . . my sister and I saw Legacy years and years ago when it was playing in the Joseph Smith building. You know that sappy part when the husband's leaving with the Mormon Battalion and the wife is blubbering and gives that horrible line about how "when I see you again, it will be Zion to me"?

We both lost it right then. I still remember the looks of horror on the faces of the other members of the audience.

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Also "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me" and "How Gentle God's Commands".

Speaking of uncomfortable laughter . . . my sister and I saw Legacy years and years ago when it was playing in the Joseph Smith building. You know that sappy part when the husband's leaving with the Mormon Battalion and the wife is blubbering and gives that horrible line about how "when I see you again, it will be Zion to me"?

We both lost it right then. I still remember the looks of horror on the faces of the other members of the audience.

My buddy and I laughed like that through most of The Book of Mormon Movie. But we were not alone.

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Maybe uncontrollably is a better word. I am not familiar with the Singles Ward version.

That's not actually what I was thinking of, though, now that I listen to it again. When I was...I'm not sure, in the MTC maybe?...there was a sarcastic echo on the chorus: "children's voices oh how sweet (how sweet)," and that's what I was thinking of.

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That's not actually what I was thinking of, though, now that I listen to it again. When I was...I'm not sure, in the MTC maybe?...there was a sarcastic echo on the chorus: "children's voices oh how sweet (how sweet)," and that's what I was thinking of.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I don't mind that version because the guitar and drums drowns out the singer and you can't hear him singing the words. :D

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I don't mind that version because the guitar and drums drowns out the singer and you can't hear him singing the words. :D

It's actually a nice version. It's not really a song that has "versions," if you will, so this is nice. But yeah, mostly because you can't hear the words. Lol.

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Wingnut beat me to it. Lead Kindly Light. After I heard it for the first time a year or two ago, I was actually almost upset with all the mormons in my life, for not exposing me to it earlier.

Great backstory to that hymn, if you haven't seen it.

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Thank you so much! I wish that fourth verse was in our hymnals. It's beautiful!

We sang that song at my dad's funeral. If that 4th verse had been there it would have been soooo appropriate.

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We sang that song at my dad's funeral. If that 4th verse had been there it would have been soooo appropriate.

It's such a beautiful song! It's a little bit melancholy, but happy and hopeful at the same time.

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It's such a beautiful song! It's a little bit melancholy, but happy and hopeful at the same time.

It's actually my favorite hymn. That's why I chose it to sing at my dad's funeral. It was one of the decisions I got to make.

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