This song was performed by the Hopeful Gospel Quartet on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. The episode "an homage to the book (the paper kind)" I'd not heard Tennyson's poem before, let alone known that it had been set to music.
Google "Crossing The Bar analysis" and you will find quite a bit of information that I'll not plagiarize here. Rather moving selection.
This song was performed by the Hopeful Gospel Quartet on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. The episode "an homage to the book (the paper kind)" I'd not heard Tennyson's poem before, let alone known that it had been set to music.
Google "Crossing The Bar analysis" and you will find quite a bit of information that I'll not plagiarize here. Rather moving selection.