[OpusatFR]

“I was raised Catholic, and some of the traditional hymns used in the 50s and 60s were beautiful. I don’t know what they are using now.”

I almost kicked the pew in front of me when our choir began with music that was most definitely, O Sacred Head Surrounded, by Bach, but the lyrics were trite, and of course, all about “me, me, me,” and not Christ.

[Albion Wilde]

I almost kicked the pew in front of me when our choir began with music that was most definitely, O Sacred Head Surrounded, by Bach, but the lyrics were trite, and of course, all about “me, me, me,” and not Christ.

Here is the history of O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

Bach's composition of "O Sacred Head", as sung by Fernando Ortega

NOTE: "American Tune" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon...(1973), .... The song, a meditation on the American experience... based on the melody of the hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded"...reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.