Orphans in the Storm - Regal orchestra, with Organ & Voices (Anyone know the hymn they launch into?*)
Don't Go Down the Mine, Dad - Frank Emerson
This song was composed by Robert Donelly probably after the 1907 Welsh mine disaster and was published in 1910.
*Thanks to Ron Reed for pointing that one out (see comments). How embarrassing - I couldn't recognise 'Abide with Me'!
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The hymn is a favourite of mine, "Abide With Me." Wikipedia says that Henry Lyte "wrote it in 1847 while he lay dying from tuberculosis; he survived only a further three weeks after its completion." The melody in this recording was written 14 years later by William Monk, in 1861.
"Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, o abide with me."
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