Hassidic Reggae Artist

Cool song, sad but uplifting.

Check this group out

The Maccabeats singing the Black Eyed Peas song, "I've Got A Feeling" LINK

Love the group's name!

Rob

 

Apart from the word "Jerusalem", I didn't get any of the words he was singing, (the "words escaped me", but probably not in the sense Gina used that phrase) so it was rather lost on me.

Was this the "hymn Jerusalem" you were looking for, with words by William Blake and music by Parry:

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the Holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.
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I personally would not call it a hymn. Its words seem to express (or at least support) the far-fetched notion that Jesus came to England with Joseph of Arimathaea.

Or were you thinking of this one, which to me far more deserves to be called a Christian hymn?

Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Thou city ever blest,
Within thy portals first I find
My safety, peace and rest.
Here dangers always threaten me,
My days in strife are spent,
And labor, sorrow, worry, grief,
I find at best their strength.

No wonder, then, that I do long
O blessèd home, for thee,
Where I shall find a resting place,
From sin and sorrow free;
Where tears and weeping are no more,
Nor death, nor pain, nor night,
For former things are passed way,
And darkness turned to light.

Now all for me has lost its charm
Which by the world is praised,
Since on the cross, through faith, I saw
My Savior Jesus raised;
My goal is fixed, one thing I ask,
Whate’er the cost may be,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Soon to arrive in thee.

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And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the Holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
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For as long as I can remember, this used to be a "national anthem" of England. I grew up in a Church of England public all boys boarding school and we sang this song every morning prior to singing God Save the King. It became a popular song of the Labour Party in 1945. Then, of course, it was the anthem of British Israelism.

It doesn't have to mean a literal,physical apearance of Jesus on British shores, but a spiritual application, in the sense that believers do make up the kingdom of God, the church.

I haven't a clue about the song on the first post. Was he singing something?

Cheers,

Jim