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<\/a><\/p>\nOn the other hand, I have a set of CDs in the car which have all these songs in this order, and when my wife is driving she will insert this CD and advance it to start with this song. There are others she likes better, and she doesn’t dislike any of the first twelve, but she finds the string of songs starting with this one to be particularly good. (I invited her to contribute to the selection process, but she never did until after it was completed.) Maybe it’s because I had a couple friends perform this at our wedding; maybe it’s because it’s the first Christian marriage song I wrote–but she often complains that I didn’t write it for her (we were engaged at the time) but for our good friends David and Jess Oldham (nee Sue Parliman), who were getting married before we were. They did not ask me to sing it at their wedding. I offered to sing it at my sister’s wedding, who wanted me to sing something, but there was a line in it she didn’t like, insisting that death parts us. I don’t know that we know that, exactly, but she makes a point.<\/p>\n
I wrote it at Gordon College, between the fall of 1975 (or possibly late that summer before I left for school) and that Christmas; Dave and Jess got married right around Christmas, and I had a recording ready for them to hear before that. It was written on the piano, the piano part probably the most complicated I had written to that point (mostly for the use of the left hand). I later figured out how to play the same chords in similar positions on the guitar, and made a recording of it to play for Dave and Jess prior to their wedding. I had recently installed a third pickup on my Harmony Rocket guitar so that I could reach the volume control and do cry effects (I had first heard and seen this done by the lead guitarist in Rock Garden<\/i> (I think his name was Eddie Newkirk, but I never knew him) using a pedal, and later seen Phil Keaggy do it with the volume control on the guitar), and so I improvised the lead guitar part on a one-shot through recording. (I was using two stereo reel-to-reel decks at the time.) Decades later when I was doing the midi instruments I realized that I didn’t have a cry guitar, but that the effect approached the sound of a violin, so I used a midi violin instead.<\/p>\n
The song is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joined Together<\/i><\/b><\/font>.<\/p>\n So here are the words:<\/p>\n Nothing else in Father’s plan Love is patient, love is kind. Who knows what is yet to be? Bridegroom, stand beside your bride; Submissive to each other, I can only hope you benefit from the song in some way. I will continue with additional songs in the future.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Previous web log song posts:<\/p>\n #301: The Song “Holocaust”<\/a><\/i> | #307: The Song “Time Bomb”<\/a><\/i> | #311: The Song “Passing Through the Portal”<\/a><\/i> | #314: The Song “Walkin’ In the Woods”<\/a><\/i> | #317: The Song “That’s When I’ll Believe”<\/a><\/i> | #320: The Song “Free”<\/a><\/i> | #322: The Song “Voices”<\/a><\/i> | #326: The Song “Mountain, Mountain”<\/a><\/i> | #328: The Song “Still Small Voice”<\/i><\/a> | #334: The Song “Convinced”<\/a><\/i> | #337: The Song “Selfish Love”<\/a><\/i> | #340: The Song “A Man Like Paul”<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n Next song:<\/i> If We Don’t Tell Them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #341, on the subject of The Song “Joined Together”. This is the thirteenth song in our publication efforts, and you might think that given our methodology (explained in the first song post, linked below) all the best ones are gone. Indeed, I ranked this song number 17 for … Continue reading #341: The Song “Joined Together”<\/span>
\nSo affects your life:
\nWill you take him for your man?
\nWill she be your wife?
\nThere is now a covenant
\nAs love makes one of two.
\nLove will teach you what you meant
\nWhen you said, “I do.”<\/p>\n
\nNever leave your love behind.
\nLove each other more each day
\n‘Til you’re old and grey.<\/p>\n
\nWe may spend eternity
\nJoined together, you and I,
\nStill as one when we die.<\/p>\n
\nKeep her always by your side.
\nShe has been God’s gift to you;
\nYou are her gift, too.<\/p>\n
\nAnd bound with cords of love.
\nWe know our loving Father
\nOrdained this up above.
\nLet no one ever separate
\nWhat God has joined as one,
\nBut work out day by day this great
\nThing God’s already done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n