Music Tuesday #066: humbling hymns

No matter what style of music, the good stuff moves you.  Since the very first time I header this song, I have gone back to it in times of melancholic musings.  A profound text and the magic of human voices singing together.  What more can you ask for?  The lyrics are attributed to Dr. Horatius Bonar, a Scottish hymnodist (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/o/n/l/y/onlyreme.htm).

Fading away like the stars in the morning
Losing their light in the glorious sun
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling
Only remembered for what we have done

Only remembered only remembered
Only remembered for what we have done
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling
Only remembered for what we have done

Only the truth that in life we have spoken
Only the seed that in life we have sown
These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten
Only remembered for what we have done

Only remembered only remembered
Only remembered for what we have done
These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten
Only remembered for what we have done

Who'll sing the anthem and who'll tell the story
Will the line hold? Will it scatter and run?
Shall we at last be united in glory
Only remembered for what we have done

Only remembered only remembered
Only remembered for what we have done
Shall we at last be united in glory
Only remembered for what we have done
Only remembered for what we have done

Only Remember - Coope, Boys & Simpson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDC2KkQkfsE

Next week we will show how an original hymn still works in a metal jacket.