Softly and Tenderly is die sielvolle Engelse eweknie van ons geliefde gelyknamige oproep- en uitnodigingslied, “Saggies en teer is die roepstem van Jesus.”
Agtergrond en Komponis
“Saggies en Teer,” wat oorspronklik bekend was as “Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling,” is ‘n klassieke uitnodigingslied uit die 19de eeu. Dit is geskryf deur Will Lamartine Thompson (1847-1909), ‘n komponis van gospel-, sekulêre en patriotiese liedere.
Omdat sy vroeëre liedere verwerp is, het Thompson sy eie musiekuitgewery gestig en “Saggies en Teer” is die eerste keer gepubliseer in ‘n versameling getiteld Sparkling Gems, Nos. 1 en 2. Dit het vinnig ‘n gewilde lied geword en is in baie kerkliedboeke opgeneem.
Thompson is geïnspireer om homself aan skryfwerk te wy terwyl hy ‘n byeenkoms van die gewilde evangelis Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) bygewoon het. Toe Moody in die hospitaal sterwend was, het hy vir Thompson gesê: “Will, I would rather have written ‘Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling’ than anything I have been able to do in my whole life”
Alan Jackson
In hierdie rou, tradisionele verwerking bring die bekende country-sanger, Alan Jackson, ‘n pragtige en eerbiedige vertolking wat die diep geestelike boodskap van genade, vergifnis en die uitnodiging om “huis toe te kom” herbevestig.
Lyrics:
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling for you and for me.
See, on the portals, He’s waiting and watching;
Watching for you and for me.
Come home, come home,
Ye who are weary come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling;
Calling, “O sinner, come home!”
O for the wonderful love He has promised,
Promised for you and for me.
Though we have sinned He has mercy and pardon;
Pardon for you and for me.
Come home, come home,
Ye who are weary come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling;
Calling, “O sinner, come home!”
Come home, come home,
Ye who are weary come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling;
Calling, “O sinner, come home!
Music video by Alan Jackson performing Softly And Tenderly. (C) 2017 ACR Records, LLC Under license to Spring House Productions, Inc.