Mansion on the Hill

Cortex has given me a taste of MuFi collaboration, and I like it. This is a simply acoustic country gospel ballad about sin and possible redemption. Anyone is welcome to download it and contribute.

In my ears, it needs some organ and some close harmony, but whatever anybody wants to do to it, if they want to do anything, is welcome.

Here are the lyrics:

There's a glorious mansion on the hill, on the hill
There's a glorious mansion on the hill
There's a promise that I made once
I keep it still, I keep it still
There's a glorious mansion on the hill

There's some sinning that I done once
I sinned my fill, I sinned my fill
There's a glorious mansion on the hill
There's a good I must find in me
I will fulfill I will fulfill
There's a glorious mansion on the hill

I swore to give up roving
And so I will, and so I will
There's a glorious mansion on the hill
I'll turn from rowdy ways
Right up until, right up until
I reach that glorious mansion on the hill

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posted by Astro Zombie (9 comments total)

You can hear sirens in the background on this song. They went by my window when I was recording.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:51 AM on August 26, 2008

Aw, this is lovely. A lot of promise there for people to lay stuff onto, I'd say.
posted by cortex at 11:24 AM on August 26, 2008

I agree.


[gears turning]
posted by umbú at 11:47 AM on August 26, 2008

This is really pretty, for some reason I hear it as a punk song, it'll be fun adding some of that nasty to it later tonight.
posted by BrnP84 at 12:19 PM on August 26, 2008

Well, I'm a little, um, pitchy here and there, I guess, but here's a harmonized version.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:35 PM on August 26, 2008

This is fantastic, great song, great words, great ambiance, great rendition, great all around.
posted by micayetoca at 2:49 PM on August 26, 2008

This gives me chills.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 1:26 AM on August 27, 2008

Ding!
posted by cortex at 6:04 PM on August 27, 2008

I still like this version best.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 12:04 AM on November 11, 2008