1.  Living Breath of All That Is - 1:10 - chanted from a prayer I think of as background music to the Lord's Prayer; rendered from a substack article by Nabu: The Lord's Prayer Jesus Actually Taught. 

2.  Lord God Sabaoth El Adonai - 3:04 - the Canticle of Ezekiel 36:24-28 set to an Easter tune.

3.  O Come Divine Messiah - 2:04 - about my favorite Advent hymn.

4.  Saint Patrick Breastplate - 2:10 - singing to Mystery and Spirit to the familiar Scots Gaelic melody Bunessan.

5.  O Come O Come Emmanuel - 5:15 - my rendering of the O Antiphons prayed used in Evening Prayer from December 17 to 23, from the 12th century.

6.  In The Beginning - 1:42 - the prologue to John set to the melody Finlandia.

7.  Canticle of Mary (Magnificat) - 1:48 - the version I chant at Evening Prayer.

8.  Faith of Our Ancestors - 2:43 - traditional, altered a bit.

9.  Go Tell It on the Mountain - 2:01 - a favorite since childhood: the magi had gifts to bring, the shepherds brought only themselves.

10.  Can't Find My Baby Jesus - 2:13 - an original song from the morning of December 25, 2020.

11.  Away in a Manger - 2:05 - the first song I learned on the ukulele; especially love the Andy Griffith Show version.

12.  Next Time When - 3:14 - an original song from pondering Jesus growing up, from the last pages of New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton: when we see children in a moment when they are really children.

13.  Bub's Jingle Bells - 1:45 - inspired by the way a brother's college friends heard him sing in the showers Bing Crosby on that old White Christmas album, and a verse on the Tennessee Ice Storm of 2026.

14.  Auld Lang Syne - 3:05 - Fell for this song from the end of It's A Wonderful Life, but love the whole song about lifelong friends separated by oceans and yet sharing their beers. From Robert Burns in 1788: The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manscript until I took it down from an old man.

Total 34:14 minutes.

Around the year 2000, I began to render some of the psalms into traditional hymn melodies and singing them in Morning and Evening Prayer. When first learning the ukulele in 2017, these were some of the first tunes I worked out three-finger chords for. After retirement, I was surprised to find myself writing new songs to old tunes and new songs with new tunes, drawing heavily from the music I learned while publishing the Three-Finger-Chord books, from the Nashville Ukulele Society, and at the Nashville Old Time String Band Association (NOTSBA) annual Breaking Up Winter. Attending a Music For Seniors songwriting workshop and joining in the Songwriters Affinity Group of the writing non-profit The Porch in Nashville's Berry Hill, I was encouraged to release some of these songs. And they keep coming. In Divine Eyes, released on streaming services in October 2026, is my first experiment with this.

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