You find the oddest things on Youtube. Here's Dame Shirlely Bassey (she's the singer belting out the theme from "Goldfinger" and several other 007 movies) singing Henry Francis Lyte's powerful "Abide with me" (written in 1847 three weeks before his death from tuberculosis) with William Monk's hymn tune. She sings above a strange, almost march-like drumming. I thought it was weird when I first heard it, but bizarrely it grows on you.
FYI: "Abide with me" is sung before championship rugby games in Britain. How did that happen?
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