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When they saw I had picked this hymn, they were thrilled for they knew it as a French hymn and we all sang it with all our hearts in 2 different languages.\u00a0 I have actually recorded this hymn with me playing my 12 string guitar and singing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This medieval hymn, a Celtic hymn originally, is the oldest hymn in the Methodist hymn book, and this is one of the most beautiful versions done of it with great harmony.\u00a0 \u00a0When I was doing the funeral for my great Uncle Robert Herring who passed away already beyond 100, he had been cared for just 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