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."