Blue Boat Home

[@smcneill]

Many thanks to everyone who watches this - please do visit Peter Mayer's website as he performs at UU congregations across the country and has some fantastic music to buy.

[@kierstinvaliant3952]

I am a pagan woman and I know this is a church hymn but this song is just so beautiful! Celebrating the earth's majestic seas and the mysterious yet wonderful universe. Truly breath taking.

[@esearles9345]

Many Unitarians Universalist are Pagans. I think Peter Mayer is also a UU, we sing this at my UU church, we're not usually christian. I identify as Buddhist UU, but also feel some affinity to paganism and humanism. As a "church" it might not be what you expect. : )

[@jonkeyes]

From a second generation UU raising a third generation UU, many thanks and many blessings! My four year old and I watched this together. We loved it. Thanks again!

[@Firebat757]

My home got hit by a hurricane, and I wasn't able to return to home or to the church community there. This song always reminds me home. Beautiful, and thank you.

[@WindyPoplars09]

My brother Peter brought this to our family reunion and taught it to us. We all love it!! Thank you Peter Mayer for writing such an amazing song.

[@cgablearvo]

Peter Mayer is one of Minnesota's best-kept secrets, and he shouldn't be a secret! He's too good!!

[@KuroTsukiKun]

We sung this today in my UU church, and it was beautiful. It's quickly become one of my congregation's favorite hymns.

[@Deadname5]

My kids and I sing this song in the car all the time! It's our favorite. I am so thankful to "Aunt Jan" and "Uncle Russ" for introducing us to the joyful songs of Peter Mayer!

[@margaretburnett5859]

It's getting lots of votes for the "Top Ten" UU songs at UU of Sacramento

[@1nterc0nnected96]

Margaret Burnett ysy

[@DinaeNikym]

I first heard this song in Chapel when I was in Basic. The Wiccan Chaplain played this at the end of the rites. it was a lovely break from being a recruit.

[@normalewis6400]

This is one of our minister's favorite hymns. We sang it, for him, today, as he leaves on sabbatical.

[@TerenceClark]

What a magnificent song! I've shared this video with my Pagan Chanting group on Facebook. It's a very nature-faith friendly tune.

[@marcelle42]

I was just thinking of the hymn, and googled "Blue Boat Home" to find a version to listen to. Imagine my surprise when the first image was *my* home at UUCF (the choir area, no less). Thanks for posting!

[@scubachick28]

Most beautiful lyrics ever written!

[@MommyMaxAndTheo]

This is just achingly beautiful.

[@PatriceFitzgerald]

This tune is known as Hyfrydol, a very old Welsh melody. Three different hymns in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal are set to it. These are lovely words. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyfrydol

[@geodude20111]

This is a beautiful song and a great collection of images - well worth listening to and watching. Well worth 4 minutes of your life.

[@laurenhaywood6250]

Thanks Ned!Lauren

[@digreytop]

I am continually filled by this music and these words

[@BearDrummer1970]

This is my second favorite song from Peter Mayer.... ("Holy Now" speaks to me on many levels) This is a song that touches my, and many others, heart. The video in the background is an excellent match to the song.

[@Leafsong112]

Makes me feel so spiritual and good inside...

[@rebeccacooke5161]

Love this song!

[@Darkhunter218]

Heard this at Great Lakes, IL. Great song.

[@donnerlohnes8823]

One of my favorite hymns, enjoy! Enjoy the coral reefs of Puerto Rico. Swim, snorkel, dive. Protect our wild life, our HOME!

[@logandouglas2026]

I'm 9 years old and we sing blue boat home in are 3rd grade program

[@1nterc0nnected96]

Logan Douglas cool

[@normalewis6400]

Thank you, Scott! Posting it on my church's Facebook page, again. Can never get enough of this beautiful *hymn*!

[@baraboo55]

Thanks for sharing!! All Souls Church-Sioux Falls SD- Dave

[@aylagrace2106]

Hello As you know its earth day soon And at my church we are singing this song Well The UU Kids are which Is me and some others Im trying to memerize it... But Thanks To this video I can Memorize most of it and rehersial is today Soooo Thanks So much!!

[@EmeraldElbows]

Whoa. Wait. I think that was my church! Thank you, Scott. :)

[@AshtonSterlyn]

Thank you for this, it truly is a wonderful song with well-timed pictures. Best way to hear an old favorite:)

[@shelagh2]

This is a beautiful song. You may recognize the tune.

[@mariecaristi7308]

+Shelagh Bocoum - Hello Shelagh, I was at a funeral in a Baptist Church when I heard this tune. I said, hey, wait a minute...that's Blue Boat Home, which led me to do a little research. The Original tune is a Welch tune, Hyfrydol, attributed to Rowland Pritchard and was written before he was twenty. It was first published in a Companion to Children's Songbook (1884) It's had many iterations, all lovely. I think I had heard the Charles Wesley's version Love Divine, All Love Excelling before, and maybe Earth Was Given As A Garden, all in U.U. hymnals. None other than Ralph Vaughn WIlliams had a version published in the English Hymnal. So you're right, it's a very recognizable tune. Blue Boat version is defeinetly my favorite. WIkipedia is my source. Most telling for me is the comment...Impressively flexible tune..

[@Crazypickle0]

Go U. U.'s. we rock

[@TheScorpionBB]

This is a beautiful and uplifting song.

[@peggywalkley2848]

Beautiful

[@susancarter9355]

Lovely!

[@oblivionscall]

I'm working on learning the piano part for this song. its so beautiful.

[@DonovanJohnsonPiano]

Hey Scott! Fancy finding you here... ; )

[@kperry1033]

Amazing

[@RAllenTucker]

A hard song to sing. Yeah, for me that's a good thing.

[@davidescelsi1600]

i like regards from italian

[@DrSCrowder]

Who is performing this version? I want to buy it.

[@stephenlangsl67]

It's Peter Mayer. The same Person that wrote the song.

[@scubachick28]

Most beautiful lyrics ever written!

[@BearDrummer1970]

This is my second favorite song from Peter Mayer.... ("Holy Now" speaks to me on many levels) This is a song that touches my, and many others, heart. The video in the background is an excellent match to the song.