Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Friday, March 1, 2019

"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come"

Back in May last year, one of the hymns on Worship Anew (for the Sixth Sunday after Easter) was "Come, Ye Thankful People Come."  I noticed a small feature about it.

The hymn is sung to the tune "St. George's, Windsor."  Here's the last phrase:


The first verse ends with the line "Raise the song of harvest home," and the fourth verse (and the hymn as a whole) ends with the line "Raise the glorious harvest home."  For both of these, "home" is sung to the tonic note (F), and since the tonic note is the musical "home" of the tune, there's a musical representation of those "home"s.