THE GEORGE FOX SONG - "Walk in the Light" (chords & lyrics)

[@amanda.please]

I’m having a terrible day and this really rose my spirits. I’m from NYC but was lucky enough to get into a program where they sent poor kids to different summer camps. I was so lucky to get sent to Friends Camp in South China, Maine. I ended up going for 4 years (summers of 5, 6, 7 and 8th grade). I was raised in Catholic school but am not religious at all. Quakerism is the only religion that ever touched me. This song, along with “‘Tis a Gift to be Simple” and “One Tin Soldier” mean so much to me because of my wonderful days at Friends camp.

[@Bbing888]

Former Friends Camper and current Friends Camp staff member here! It's so great to stumble upon someone else who's been touched by camp. I hope you're doing well!

[@maegardnermills4292]

"You can't kill the devil with a gun or a sword." That is so true. Thank you so very much. I had Quaker ancestors. BRITT and BRESSIE FAMILY.

[@philipem1000]

At our annual retreat we were having a sing along. "Does anybody have a song they want us to sing?" A young child excitedly raised her hand. "Can we sing Sad Fox?" A pause as no one could recall such a song... "Could you sing a little of it for us "With my old leather britches and my shaggy, shaggy locks I am walking in the glory of the Light, Sad Fox"

[@Hybris_Speedrun]

❤

[@annemcmaster9436]

Haha , I had a similar experience teaching the younger children as a preteen.. they kept singing “ I am walking in the glory of the light said the fox .”

[@flacodiggity]

We were also raised (semi-) Quaker, and our mom used to sing us to sleep with this when we were little. Thanks!

[@francisadams-u9l]

This song sings to everyone. I will listen to it again.

[@linbarrington9348]

I love your enthusiasm for George Fox' teachings. A Spirited performance.

[@connieeash7935]

Thanks, Jon. We just shared this over zoom for our opening exercise at Birmingham. We love your rendition.

[@seanahuizenga2202]

Trying to learn this! The original chorus ends "you are tearing down the pillars of the world, George Fox" and it gives me tingles! Thank you for posting this for me :)

[@alanpennie8013]

I prefer that version. But Quakers don't like it because it sounds too violent.

[@bern74kwan]

I prefer the original chorus too - it was what I remembered

[@LorcanOtway]

Great! It is so nice to hear the version I grew up singing... There is another version, different tune, and I was beginning to doubt my memory. We'd sing this with Anna L Curtis, the granddaughter of conductors on the Underground Railroad, in First Day School, when I was a little fellow, oh, many decades ago... Thank'ee Friend! Lorcan Otway

[@juststephandme2875]

love the song, so catchy x love and God's wonderful light from a Quaker in Essex, England

[@ellenschwindt9611]

Thank you! I was looking for the chords to this song and your video came up. I'm going to share it on Sunday with a not-quaker, but not-opposed to listening church in Fryeburg, Maine. Having fond memories of Shiloh!

[@lorenwoirhaye4687]

I grew up in a Quaker church so us kids sang this song a lot. Fox was a real oddball.

[@Macieks300]

2:23-4:50

[@petelarose998]

God bless you.

[@tombrisson]

I love Quakers, and I love this song, too...

[@psychshell4644]

Thank you!!!! I love this song. We can teach it to the kids now.

[@lilihsu6661]

Wow, I randomly wanted to sing this song, so I went to youtube and out of the list of songs that came up, I picked this one first. I went to Shiloh too!

[@wmeno9942]

BYM camps are amazing, i just got back from shiloh

[@marialaird6609]

I went to Opequen, and the rest of my friends went to Catoctin. We might have known some of the same people! :)

[@wmeno9942]

Duck stealers :C

[@kaisasazama-framil3265]

I went to friends Camp

[@t.harker4200]

@@wmeno9942 Catoctin won that duck fair and square coward

[@katrinkify]

Yay! So glad to hear this song again. Thank you, Jon!

[@macoafi]

Thanks for posting this! I didn't have an example to show people, and while I now have a copy of Sydney Carter's recording on my phone, I've found that A) Quakers sing it differently and B) it sounds different in a group sing-along without all the remastering and stuff.

[@keithlightminder3005]

macoafi I used to work at a camp sydney carter went to as a song leader here in canada, one night on the way to camp he crashed at my friends gwen house and slept in her new bed before she got to herself, on telling her son he was super impressed and we were surprised because he didnt seem that interested in sydney carter before that moment, turned out he thought meant sydney crosby the hockey star. Lord of the ice not of the dance. No hockey emoticon available so 🎶

[@annemcmaster9436]

I too grew up singing this favorite. Once at general conference as a preteen I was given the 4 and 5 year olds to teach this song to sing in front of the group at rise of meeting luncheon. Like 200 hundred people. I had the worst time helping them remember it was “Fox” the person not a fox . Thought they had finally gotten it… nope they all sang “I am walking in the glory of the light said THE FOX😂 fortunately everyone thought it was funny.

[@elitomar4102]

You da man Jon

[@jonwattsmusic]

No you da man

[@sapplebaugh]

my favorite "Quaker song"!!!!

[@agneebags]

did you by any chance go to a Baltimore Yearly Meeting summer camp? love this song

[@stephenhamishdarby2591]

Australian Quakers See also 'Twilight' (1932) by Australian methodist composer Dr Edwin Fowles, a setting of the John Greenleaf Whittier verse 'When on My Day Of Life' preserved at the National Library of Australia. See also 'Thou Art Lovelier' (1870) lyris by Australian Quaker Richard Howwitt and musical setting by Anglican companion William Legge, also at National Library.

[@lia5958]

love this song! which camp did you go too?

[@ShannonCJeter]

I'm trying to make a Cafroogin gift and it would be nice to have a hard copy of the guitar chords. Anyone have such a thing?

[@erikasmith3369]

Love ❤ it!

[@clairesimmons3491]

Sidney Carter also wrote Lord of The Dance

[@davidallen6126]

hey I really like this song, is there a good recording of it somewhere? this is literally all I could find

[@katibrownshire8153]

Same! If you find one let me know!

[@rav66c65]

Thank you

[@Macieks300]

that's a nice song

[@liamgilham]

keep em coming! yours in Friendship, Liam

[@TheJanTichy]

Hello, thank you for amazing video! There is one song about Fox and Penn talking about different things, if they are allowed. Do you know what is the name of this song? Thank you and please, do more songs

[@stephenadler35]

Which Quaker camp did you go to? Journey's End farm camp or Jr. Friends Conference?

[@jonwattsmusic]

Shiloh Quaker Camp in Charlotesville, VA

[@lorieallion729]

***** I went to Celo too! Loved it!!

[@JerusalemRemembered28]

Please acknowledge why they were called QUAKERS-it’s because they had received the Baptism of Jesus Christ and were filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in TONGUES of Resurrection Fire. (Acts 2:38) They “quaked” or “trembled” under the power of God when praying in the Holy Spirit (Tongues). This is what it means to “work out your own salvation with fear & trembling.” (Phil 2:12) __________________ John 1:14 🗣🔥📖

[@erithacusnacnud]

Excellent message of inclusivism from a stellar songwriter. My context is mainstream Christianity but I have become increasingly uncomfortable over the years with the realisation that most Christians, certainly evangelicals, are first and foremost 'Biblians'. To the extent of being a weird, unacknowledged, virtual idolatry. (As if the Bible has been placed on the throne of God - a God who is not literature but Spirit and whose 'scripture' is all things.) Bravo to all like Fox who swim against the tide of convention.

[@cyanidearsenic]

This is probably just me not using youtube often enough to know this but I can't get the lyrics to show up on the screen? The cords are showing and when you say about having the lyrics show up, the 'Ye Olde Lyrics' bit is there but the lyrics themselves aren't?

[@jonwattsmusic]

Oops! My bad! Should be fixed now. :)

[@SaudaraLink]

Do you know who wrote the song? How much of it did Fox actually say? I know he referred to his leather breeches, but did he mention having shaggy, shaggy locks? Do the other quotes accurately express what he said?

[@alanpennie8013]

Pretty much I think.

[@alanpennie8013]

He certainly had a low opinion of churches and the clergy. And refused to kill or swear oaths. He had other principles, such as always using the familiar (thou) form of address.

[@ejharkness]

How is "Promise"?

[@k.zoinks7366]

I love you. You just made me happy.

[@jonwattsmusic]

Aw, thanks!

[@stphnmrrs3982]

Isn't that tune simple gifts?

[@stphnmrrs3982]

+A Cappella Trudbol (Julien Neel) Mormons? It's a Shaker hymn

[@keithlightminder3005]

A Cappella Trudbol Shakers

[@danplews]

Cool, but this is not the shaker tune that Carter used for 'Lord of the Dance'!

[@evilmichaelherzogauttpexeb9408]

Learn in The Seven Times Table | Mc Grammar | Education Rap For Kids

[@psychshell4644]

John H. Au contra ire.Please visit a meetinghouse.

[@shanepetzer724]

thank thee Friend

[@CKBrooke]

John McWhorter brought me here

[@Zenene-ok5el]

Same here!

[@norettebenettnoha]

Gréât and pride to lesson hope life #2024 😂

[@andycunningham7732]

I remember singing this song as a child just before meeting for worship. I left the friends when I was 16. I was never serious and their hippy, social-justice message never resonated with me. I became an evangelical Christian in my 30s and never looked back. George Fox might have had good intentions but theologically he stood very far off from scripture. He had his own religion which is certainly not Christianity. Hearing this song is almost spooky because it reminds me my lost state as a child in a room filled with lost sinners who lived in biblical darkness. Ask 10 Quakers who Jesus is and you'll get 14 different answers.

[@edwardfleming9833]

The reason you will get fourteen answers is because we each have our own thoughts on the matter, and we each have our own experience of god.

[@andycunningham7732]

I agree. But no one's thoughts on the matter is the issue. No one's "experience of God" matters a whit to anyone. What matters is what God has said about himself. You cannot teach people scripture if you don't understand it yourself. Is Jesus God, yes or no? The only answer that matters is what God has said in the bible.

[@edwardfleming9833]

Andy Cunningham I must disagree with you on that point. The way I see it, there isn't anything holy about the Bible itself, it is the ideas contained therein that are important; as they give us an idea of how to live our lives as God wishes us to.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@edwardfleming9833 Seems like the persecuting spirit of the old - time puritans is not quite extinguished.