This song is unique, and is not based on the music of another song.
These pages are an invitation for those with ties to
Southern Utah to come together, like Emma Nelson
would have, and celebrate the new Cedar City Temple
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint.
Emma wrote a poem of celebration, put to the music of
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah as arranged by Roger Emerson:
To Me, My Farm Is
1. My farm to me is not just land
Where bare, unpainted buildings stand
To me my farm is nothing less
Than all created loveliness
2. My farm is not where I must soil
My hands in endless, dreary toil
But where, through seed and swelling pod
I’ve learned to walk and talk with God
3. My farm to me is not a place
Outmoded by a modern race
I like to think I just see less
Of evil, greed, and selfishness
C: Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Helllujah, Halllu jah
4. My farm’s not lonely, for all day
I hear my children shout and play
And here, when age comes, free from fears
I’ll live again, long joyous years
5. My farm’s a heaven – here dwells rest,
Security, and happiness
Whate’er befalls the world outside
Here faith and hope and love abide
6. And so my farm is not just land
Where bare, unpainted buildings stand
To me my farm is nothing less
Than all God’s hoarded loveliness
C: Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Helllujah, Halllu jah
Let’s all come together with Emma and celebrate this timestone.
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