Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.
Friday, July 30, 2021
"There Is a Balm in Gilead"
Last year, I noticed a small feature in "There Is a Balm in Gilead." The tune for the hymn is "Balm in Gilead." Here's the second half of the verse:
In the second verse, the text here is "You can tell the love of Jesus / And say He died for all." "All" is sung with a melisma (F to Bb), and this gives a sense of the entirety of "all."