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I Called On Today
Hymn composed by
Mike MenefeeContextual information
During the Covid pandemic, our small music team (my daughter Alena Hemingway, Brian Kenny, the Kitsap Unitiarian Universalist Fellowship Music Coordinator and accompanist, and I) had been creating many music videos for UU services. I was inspired to write “I Called On Today” as the world began to claw its way out of the hole of the pandemic. Vaccines were being widely and successfully distributed, and we dared think about how to return to in-person fellowship.
During the Covid pandemic, our small music team (my daughter Alena Hemingway, Brian Kenny, the Kitsap Unitiarian Universalist Fellowship Music Coordinator and accompanist, and I) had been creating many music videos for UU services. I was inspired to write “I Called On Today” as the world began to claw its way out of the hole of the pandemic. Vaccines were being widely and successfully distributed, and we dared think about how to return to in-person fellowship.
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[I Called On Today]
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Mike MenefeeHymn Arranger
Composer Background information
Mike Menefee (he/him) is a retired educator from Bremerton, WA. He has previously served as Choir Director at the Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and he helped to create dozens of UU music videos during the COVID pandemic, which have received hundreds of thousands of views from around the world. He also writes, arranges, and directs in the Barbershop Harmony world.
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Lyricist Background information
Mike Menefee (he/him) is a retired educator from Bremerton, WA. He has previously served as Choir Director at the Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and he helped to create dozens of UU music videos during the COVID pandemic, which have received hundreds of thousands of views from around the world. He also writes, arranges, and directs in the Barbershop Harmony world.
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I called on yesterday, but nobody answered.
I called on tomorrow, but no one was there.
So I called on today, and the door was flung open.
There was dancing and singing and joy in the air.
So I called on today, I called on today,
There was dancing and singing and joy in the air.
Yesterday, she is my counsel and teacher.
My friend tomorrow says “Do not delay.”
But the only voice singing the song of your living
Is the one that is singing the song of today.
So I called on today, I called on today,
There was rev’rence and wonder and hope in the air.
Moon sings of dreaming of days gone before us;
Sunset, a lullaby at end of day.
But the dawn sings of waking, of building and sharing.
The sunrise is singing the song of today.
So I called on today, I called on today,
There was magic and myst’ry and love in the air.
The ancestors whisper their wisdom and warning.
Our children will travel to worlds far away.
But the torch is alight with our hope and thanksgiving,
So lift up your voice in the song of today.
So I called on today, I called on today,
There was dancing and singing and joy in the air.
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