Sing Hallelujah

17 hours ago by @danvaillancourt · @nathanschleicher · @hbusse

Liner Notes

Dan Says: On the first day of FAWM, Hannah sent me a little voice memo snippet with some guitar and a bit of vocal... I sent back a set of lyrics and voice memo sketch... she send me back an even better revised set of lyrics and new sketched out version... then she made great guide tracks for the rest of the band to follow... And was nice enough to let me put together a full gospel band (Thanks Mason and Art!) and take this one to church. Then, she proceeded to record lead vocals and female choir. I pulled my friend Nathan out of FAWM-retirement to record the male choir parts. Mixing Mixing Mixing... and here we go. Thanks Hannah!

Hannah says: This has been a fun collab with Dan & Co! Been going on in the background for a few weeks now, and happy to officially post it now. Originally in my first voice memo, I pictured this song going in more of a pop direction, but once Dan sent me his original set of lyrics and voice memo sketch, it clearly wanted to become more of a full gospel number. (Personal note: As our church has been growing more multicultural over the past decade, and friends from my church family have included me in more gospel-style worship, I have grown to really admire and enjoy the genre. It was fun to explore some of that here.)

Hannah Busse - lead vocals and choir vocals
Dan Vaillancourt - guitar, bass, tambourine, claps, a little bit of backing vocals, mixing, production
Nathan Schleicher - choir vocals
Artur Lenivenko - Keys
Mason Rosenfeld - drums

#gospel #fullband #harmonies #choir

Lyrics

Sing Hallelujah
Words and Music by Hannah Busse and Dan Vaillancourt

I read the news today
and I can hardly say
that there’s any good there
It’s overwhelming,
I do what I can but
I’m just one woman
I feel so low, So low

On the Sea of Galilee
I wish I could believe
that I can walk on water
But I got my doubts
I feel like I’m drowning
Would you lift me up?
So High, So High, So high

Could I sing Ha ha ha - Le eh eh - Lu u u - Yah…

Started as a whisper but it grew louder
Started alone but before you know it
One voice was joined by many others
There is a crowd here…
And I hear them singing...

I started singing... Ha ha ha - Le eh eh - Lu u u - Yah…

We started shouting... Ha ha ha - Le eh eh - Lu u u - Yah…

We sang it out... Ha ha ha - Le eh eh - Lu u u - Yah…
So High igh igh, So High igh igh
So high
So high

Let’s sing it louder, gonna lift it up (Ha ha ha, le eh eh)
Let’s sing it louder, gonna lift it up (Lu u u, ya ah ah)
Let’s sing it louder, gonna lift it up (Ha ha ha, le eh eh)
Let’s sing it louder, gonna lift it up (Lu u u, ya ah ah)
Sing Hallelujah!

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