Many thanks to everyone who watches this - please do visit Peter Mayer's website as he performs at UU congregations across the country and has some fantastic music to buy.
My home got hit by a hurricane, and I wasn't able to return to home or to the church community there. This song always reminds me home. Beautiful, and thank you.
From a second generation UU raising a third generation UU, many thanks and many blessings! My four year old and I watched this together. We loved it. Thanks again!
I am a pagan woman and I know this is a church hymn but this song is just so beautiful! Celebrating the earth's majestic seas and the mysterious yet wonderful universe. Truly breath taking.
Many Unitarians Universalist are Pagans. I think Peter Mayer is also a UU, we sing this at my UU church, we're not usually christian. I identify as Buddhist UU, but also feel some affinity to paganism and humanism. As a "church" it might not be what you expect. : )
My kids and I sing this song in the car all the time! It's our favorite. I am so thankful to "Aunt Jan" and "Uncle Russ" for introducing us to the joyful songs of Peter Mayer!
This tune is known as Hyfrydol, a very old Welsh melody. Three different hymns in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal are set to it. These are lovely words. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyfrydol
I was just thinking of the hymn, and googled "Blue Boat Home" to find a version to listen to. Imagine my surprise when the first image was *my* home at UUCF (the choir area, no less). Thanks for posting!
I first heard this song in Chapel when I was in Basic. The Wiccan Chaplain played this at the end of the rites. it was a lovely break from being a recruit.
This is my second favorite song from Peter Mayer.... ("Holy Now" speaks to me on many levels) This is a song that touches my, and many others, heart. The video in the background is an excellent match to the song.
+Shelagh Bocoum - Hello Shelagh, I was at a funeral in a Baptist Church when I heard this tune. I said, hey, wait a minute...that's Blue Boat Home, which led me to do a little research. The Original tune is a Welch tune, Hyfrydol, attributed to Rowland Pritchard and was written before he was twenty. It was first published in a Companion to Children's Songbook (1884) It's had many iterations, all lovely. I think I had heard the Charles Wesley's version Love Divine, All Love Excelling before, and maybe Earth Was Given As A Garden, all in U.U. hymnals. None other than Ralph Vaughn WIlliams had a version published in the English Hymnal. So you're right, it's a very recognizable tune. Blue Boat version is defeinetly my favorite. WIkipedia is my source. Most telling for me is the comment...Impressively flexible tune..
Hello As you know its earth day soon And at my church we are singing this song Well The UU Kids are which Is me and some others Im trying to memerize it... But Thanks To this video I can Memorize most of it and rehersial is today Soooo Thanks So much!!
This is my second favorite song from Peter Mayer.... ("Holy Now" speaks to me on many levels) This is a song that touches my, and many others, heart. The video in the background is an excellent match to the song.
