The song I’m featuring today was one I heard years ago on a radio drama my local NPR station was broadcasting. Entitled something like Night of the Hunter, it was about a killer disguised as a preacher. After he murders a widow, as he’s pursuing her children, he sings, “Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms.” The children manage to escape, and the faux preacher is apprehended.
I later learned the song sung by this villain is actually a hymn. I overheard it being sung during a church service at the nursing home where I worked. According to Dr. Crystal Grimes, whose lovely rendition I’m featuring today, this was a bluegrass classic. In her post linked to below, she plays the song on her liar, shares her first memories of singing it, and provides some background information. Enjoy, and may you always be safe and secure from all alarms.
Via Leaning on the Everlasting Arms #Music
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When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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Abbie, what a delightful post today. I love this song – it was in our hymnal in the Methodist Church where I was raised. It brought back so many great memories as I listened to it –
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You’re welcome, Lynda. Have a great day!
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