Peter Mayer's "Blue Boat Home"

It's hard to find a hymnal within the various Christian denominations that doesn't contain lyrics set to the Welsh tune Hyfrydol, composed about 1831 by Rowland Huw Pritchard.

Peter Mayer's earth-centered version, Blue Boat Home, dating I believe from 2002, is popular among Unitarian Universalists --- and others who share the wonder of sailing through the universe together on this fragile "blue boat" planet of ours.

This seems like a good Sunday morning for it, as spring unfolds. The performance, by Mayer, was recorded during 2014.

Though below me, I feel no motion 

Standing on these mountains and plains 

Far away from the rolling ocean 

Still my dry land heart can say 

I’ve been sailing all my life now 

Never harbor or port have I known 

The wide universe is the ocean I travel 

And the earth is my blue boat home

Sun, my sail, and moon my rudder 

As I ply the starry sea 

Leaning over the edge in wonder 

Casting questions into the deep 

Drifting here with my ship’s companions 

All we kindred pilgrim souls 

Making our way by the lights of the heavens 

In our beautiful blue boat home

I give thanks to the waves upholding me 

Hail the great winds urging me on 

Greet the infinite sea before me 

Sing the sky my sailor’s song 

I was born upon the fathoms 

Never harbor or port have I known 

The wide universe is the ocean I travel 

And the earth is my blue boat home.