The other morning a song popped into my head. Or rather a hymn, because clearly there is a difference between hymns and songs thus the "worship wars" and, yeah, tangent.
Anyway, I started humming "He giveth more grace when the burdens are greater" and then the next line that came into my head was "I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold"...wait, what? That's not the same song! I kept running through those lines in my head but they kept mish-mashing up until I finally went in the other room and tried to get help from Yo Momma and G.G. They humored me but weren't much help. I drove all the way home from Tahoe with those two songs, sorry, hymns in my head.
I didn't remember to look them up until today. A quick jaunt over to YouTube and guess what?! They may not be the exact same tune but they are pretty darn close! Which got me a'thinkin' about all the other hymns that use the same tune but change the lyrics. Which made my mind trail off on a tangent about how hard it must be to come up with new tunes all the time.
Anyway, you can YouTube them yourself (sorry, I'm not going to attach the videos here) and decide for yourself. Am I crazy or do "He Giveth More Grace" and "I'd Rather Have Jesus" sound pretty darn similar?
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