GaHarm2012, page 54: John 3:37

Sung 49 times (as reflected in the Minutes on this site).

Book: GaHarm2012

About this tune

David Carlton asked (2025): Why did Raymond Hamrick name a song (“John 3:37”) for a scripture verse that doesn’t exist?

To quote from “The Making of The Georgian Harmony” by John Hollingsworth (2016):

“Throughout this process we were discussing the music with Raymond [Hamrick] and John [Plunkett] was helping Raymond in several ways, not the least of which was to find words for the music. One of my favorite stories, which I am sure Plunkett is tired of hearing me tell, involves song 54. The words were from hymn 337 of a book [Raymond] had borrowed from John, and the notation he wrote at the top of the page was ‘John 337.’ Knowing that chapter 3 of John had only thirty-six verses and needing a title, he added the colon as a joke, so the ‘John’ in the title ‘John 3:37’ is John Plunkett.”

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