If ever thou wilt thrive, (4:02) bury my body, Lennon wrote the song to confound listeners who had been affording serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics. Written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was released as the B-side to the single "Hello, Goodbye" and on the Magical Mystery Tour EP and album. Shotton was also responsible for suggesting that Lennon change the lyric "waiting for the man to come" to "waiting for the van to come". "Who You Say I Am" is a song performed by Australian praise and worship group Hillsong Worship. It begins where the disguised Edgar talks to his estranged and maliciously blinded father the Earl of Gloucester (timings given[17]): Gloucester: (2:35) Now, good sir, wh— (Lennon appears to change the channel away from the station here)[17] [4] Lennon later expressed dismay upon belatedly realising that the walrus was a villain in the poem.[5]. As duteous to the (4:27) vices of thy mistress I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. 3. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. [15], In 2015, founding Moody Blues member Ray Thomas said in an interview that he and fellow band member Mike Pinder contributed backing vocals to the song, as well as harmonicas to "The Fool on the Hill". [9] On 19 October 2018, Hillsong Worship released an instrumental version of "Who You Say I Am" in the instrumental album titled There Is More: Instrumental. The identification of this flower is a much vexed question. [12] Hillsong Worship then published the official lyric video of the song's live version on 21 March 2018. CHORUS Who the Son sets free Oh is free indeed I’m a child of God Yes I am. The chorus uses a ♭III–IV–V pattern: "I am the eggman (C chord) "they are the eggmen (D chord). Upon the British party. While the band were studying Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968, George Harrison told journalist Lewis Lapham that one of the lines in "I Am the Walrus" incorporated the personal mantra he had received from their meditation teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Verse 5. There is a live music video of "Who You Say I Am" recorded during the 2017 Hillsong Worship & Creative Conference at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, on the 2nd of March 2018. On 13 July 2018, Hillsong Worship published the studio sessions version of the song which released as a song in There Is More: Studio Sessions EP. Themes & Variations is committed to providing quality music curriculum materials to schools at affordable prices. [6][7] The studio version of the song impacted Australian radio on 22 June 2018. 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Shotton recalled the rhyme as follows: Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, The Mike Sammes Singers, a 16-voice choir of professional studio vocalists, also joined the recording, variously singing nonsense lines and shrill whooping noises. The word "black" (שְׁחורָה) does not necessarily mean that the skin is black, but rather sunburnt, dark brown, as in Lamentations 4:8, where the same word signifies the livid or swarthy appearance of one who has suffered long from famine and wretchedness. Nat King Cole’s first solo hit – in 1948, where it reached the top of the chart and stayed there for 8 weeks. Slog AM: Denny Park Raid Starts Today, King County Hits 500,000 Vaccinations, Parler Gives Up Trying to Sue Amazon by Matt Baume • Mar 3, 2021 at 8:30 am And give the (4:05) letters which thou find'st about me VERSE 2 Free at last He has ransomed me His grace runs deep While I was a slave to sin Jesus died for me Yes He died for me. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Dt 10:17, "God of gods and Lord of lords"; 1Ti 6:15, "King of kings"). To (4:08) Edmund, Earl of Gloucester; (4:10) seek him out VERSE 2 To reveal the kingdom coming And to reconcile the lost To redeem the whole creation You did not despise the cross. The Beatles' official biographer, Hunter Davies, was present while the song was being written and wrote an account in his 1968 book The Beatles. The basic backing track featuring the Beatles was released in 1996 on Anthology 2. Dolly Parton 23 hours ago. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more songs like this - https://www.youtube.com/c/SFDSSunday7pmChoirAjax and thanks for listening! [6], Lennon borrowed a couple of images from the first two lines. [citation needed], Although it has been reported that Lennon wrote "I Am the Walrus" to confuse those who tried to interpret his songs, there have nevertheless been many attempts to analyse the meaning of the lyrics[citation needed]. [23] An entirely new full stereo remix was done in 2012 for Apple's DVD and Blu-ray release of the restored version of Magical Mystery Tour. [...] Following the album's release, Hillsong Worship then released Spotify Singles, which has two songs, including "Who You Say I Am" which was recorded at Sound Stage in Nashville, Tennessee, on 2 May 2018. These tracks were transferred digitally and lined up to create a new multi-track master, from which a new mix would be made. [13] At the line "Sitting in an English garden" the D♯ melody note (as in the instrumental introduction) establishes a Lydian mode (sharp 4th note in the scale), and this mode is emphasised more strongly with the addition of a D♯ note to the B chord on "If the sun don't come". Lennon returned to the subject in the lyrics of three of his subsequent songs: in the 1968 Beatles song "Glass Onion" he sings, "I told you 'bout the walrus and me, man / You know that we're as close as can be, man / Well here's another clue for you all / The walrus was Paul";[35] in the third verse of "Come Together" he sings the line "he bag production, he got walrus gumboot"; and in his 1970 solo song "God", admits: "I was the walrus, but now I'm John".