Rock of Ages
So heart wrenching.
Oh and the way I found that...
search google for “Lyrics All the world will be jealous of me”
Then look at the lyrics of the songs brought up.
Increasingly I search for a lyric, and the Classic Rock song I’m thinking of is buried behind 5 pages of modern junk.
1 Now the day is over,
night is drawing nigh;
shadows of the evening
steal across the sky.
2 Jesus, give the weary
calm and sweet repose;
with your tend’rest blessing
may my eyelids close.
3 Comfort ev’ry suff’rer
watching late in pain;
those who plan some evil,
from their sin restrain.
4 Thro’ the long night-watches
may your angels spread
their bright wings above me,
watching round my bed.
5 When the morning wakens,
then may I arise
pure and fresh and sinless
in your holy eyes.
Source: Christian Worship (2021): Hymnal #786
I have heard this dirge played in many funeral homes.
It is called “Now the Day Is Over”.
The following is a paragraph from Wikipedia on the movie. It might help.
According to the AFI catalog, music credited in the film included “All the World Will Be Jealous of Me”, by Ernest R. Ball and Al Dubin, and “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”, words by E. A. Hoffman, music by A. J. Showalter,[5] but they are not credited on screen. Music is important to the Macauley family and to those around them, including Marcus’s Army buddies. The score is full of allusive phrases and songs, that were familiar to 1943 audiences, from the strains of the “Star-Spangled Banner” that open and close the film, to little Ulysses’ fascination with “My Old Kentucky Home”, to a long, rousing rendition of “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”, sung by the soldiers on the train, where one shot breaks the fourth wall and invites the audience to sing along to the last chorus. Alcoholic Mr. Grogan copes with the despair caused by the relentless stream of telegrams from the War Department by turning to songs — “Rock of Ages” and “Church in the Wildwood” among them — as well as cold water in the face and black coffee. Mrs. Sandoval rocks and croons “Cielito lindo” to the memory of the son she has just lost. Other pieces woven into the score are: “Where the River Shannon Flows”, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”, “Now the Day Is Over”, “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”, “You’re in the Army Now”, “Git Along Little Dogies”, “The Happy Farmer”, “Polly Wolly Doodle”, “Onward Christian Soldiers”, “The Caissons Go Rolling Along”, “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” and “A Dream”, an old love song sung by Mary and Bess as Tobey and Homer approach the house with news of Marcus’s death. In the scene where Tom and Diana Spangler drive through the Valley Festival, he points out the people wearing traditional costume, playing traditional music and dancing folk dances: “Greeks, Serbs, Russians, Poles, Spanish, Mexicans, Armenians, Swedes and all the rest”.
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