Wednesday 18 January 2012

Gaelic and Soul

I have had no one to pray with for the last 5 days,but have been getting closer to God by reading the Bible, and the Metrical Psalms ( which are the Psalms written in metre so they can be sung, which was their original purpose), so the Bible already has its own hymn book inside!!!..Praise Him.
. I listened to some of the Psalms sung in Gaelic, which is the original language of Britain, and is only spoken in a few outlying Islands in the Hebrides, they were from a Church in a place called Back,maybe on the Isle of Lewis,they really have soul, the way the Black Gospel singers have, some say the only soul in the British Churches!!!..,so have ordered a C.D, looking forward to hearing that!!
I was really inspired by a book about the Hebridian Revivals called 'Songs from Heaven',there have been  quite a few revivals on those Islands.I was watching a drama on T.V several years ago about the Islands and an ordinary families struggle to survive,a secular programme,and when some of the young Islanders went to war by ship, the people gathered on the quay side and sang them off with a Psalm,brought tears to my eyes it was so beautiful,even when they could not see the Island any more because of fog, the singing was still reaching them over the sea.
I read a few interesting articles that the Black Gospel songs style have their origins in the Hebrides, because some of the Hebrides went to America, unfortunately owned slaves, were land owners and taught their slaves Gaelic singing, i am not sure if this is true, i don't want to take anything away from the Gospel singers, and say they did not originate the form themselves.
I saw a t.v show many years ago which put forward the Idea that Rock and Roll originated from the Hebrides too, don't know,If any one out there knows anything about this please let me know.

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