Hymn

Hymn is the first track on "Gone To Earth", an album by the English rock group Barclay James Harvest released in 1977. Written by band-member and guitarist John Lees, the song is sometimes misinterpreted as a Christmas song but is actually a song against the dangers of drug use (and dedicated to musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Paul Kossoff and Janis Joplin).

Valley's deep and the mountain's so high If you want to see God you've got to move on the other side You stand up there with your head in the clouds Don't try to fly you know you might not come down Don't try to fly, dear God, you might not come down Jesus came down from Heaven to earth The people said it was a virgin birth Jesus came down from Heaven to earth The people said it was a virgin birth The people said it was a virgin birth He told great stories of the Lord And said he was the saviour of us all He told great stories of the Lord And said he was the saviour of us all And said he was the saviour of us all For this we killed him, nailed him up high He rose again as if to ask us why Then he ascended into the sky As if to say in God alone you soar As if to say in God alone we fly Valley's deep and the mountain's so high If you want to see God you've got to move on the other side You stand up there with your head in the clouds Don't try to fly you know you might not come down Don't try to fly, dear God, you might not come down