It Is Well with My Soul
Philip Bliss's hymn as he harmonised it in 1876, for 2 to 4 singers: the first verse and the chorus. In the chorus the tune holds "well" and "soul" while the other parts answer "it is well" beneath it, then all four sing the last line together. Steady and warm.
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The first verse
Words: Horatio G. Spafford (1873)Tune: Philip P. Bliss, "Ville du Havre" (1876)
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,When sorrows, like seabillows, roll;Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,It is well, it is well with my soul.
About It Is Well with My Soul
It Is Well with My Soul has words by Horatio G. Spafford, whose four daughters were killed when the ship Ville du Havre sank in November 1873. His family said he wrote them as his ship passed the place where they died; other accounts put the writing later. Philip P. Bliss named his tune Ville du Havre, after the ship. Its earliest known printing is No. 76 in Gospel Hymns No. 2 (1876), and our arrangement is read from Bliss's four parts on that page, in C, lightly revoiced. This is the first verse and the chorus for 2 to 4 singers, steady and warm: in the chorus the tune holds "well" and "soul" while the others answer beneath it.
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