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    Click "Buy Now" to order the physical CD and get a free, immediate download of the entire album! This "First Edition" CD version of Spiritual Songs by The Wayside will be packaged in a beautiful, full color Digipak case with more great photos by Allen Clark and more info on the songs.

    Additionally, a very limited "Special Edition Boxed Set" will be created for our most passionate fans, friends and supporters. The music is exactly the same as the standard edition, but ordering the Special Edition of the album will get you a hand-made boxed set that will include the full CD, a limited run 7" vinyl single of "Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior" with an un-released B-side work-tape of a song Michelle wrote since moving to Nashville (that may appear in a more fully produced form on a future recording.) You will never see this version of the song anywhere else. Also included in the box will be a stack of 12 photo cards (photos by Allen Clark) with essays about the songs, our history with them, and why we chose to record them on the back and a nifty, numbered, box.

    (Please click on the "Special Edition" link to the right to order.)

    We estimate the delivery date of the First Edition CDs to be around February 1, 2010. By pre-ordering now you are helping us get this ball rolling again, and helping us know how many CDs to print. Thanks!

    Also includes immediate download of the 11 track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Choose the WAV, AIFF or FLAC versions for highest (CD) quality, but allow extra time for the download. If you only plan to listen on an MP3 player then the high quality MP3 version will be fine.

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    If you would rather order by mail please send a check or money order made out to Gyroscope Arts to:

    Gyroscope Arts
    PO Box 60401
    Nashville TN 37206

    We will email you a link to download the songs immediately if you request it with your payment.

    Standard First Edition CD: $12 (plus $1 s&h)
    Special Boxed Set with 7" Vinyl and Photos: $25

    Re-sellers / Promoters / Serious Gifters: Bulk orders may be made via email or snail mail. 10 CDs for $65 (shipping included) or 20+ for $5 each (free shipping.)
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[For full song-by-song notes check out the Special Edition boxed version of Spiritual Songs in which John and Michelle write detailed histories on the songs, how and why they chose it for the record, Scripture references and more.]

lyrics

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of Heaven, my victory won,
May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

credits

from Spiritual Songs, track released January 1, 2010
Words: At­trib­ut­ed to Dal­lan For­gaill, 8th Cen­tu­ry (Rob tu mo bhoile, a Com­di cri­de); trans­lat­ed from an­cient Ir­ish to Eng­lish by Ma­ry E. Byrne, in “Eriú,” Jour­nal of the School of Ir­ish Learn­ing, 1905, and versed by El­ea­nor H. Hull, 1912, alt. (Reprinted from CyberHymnal.org)

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The Wayside/Michelle Lynn Thompson Nashville

The Wayside is John and Michelle Thompson and the various friends and collaborators who have come alongside them over the past 32 years of rootsy music making. Originally from the Chicago area, they now call East Nashville home and they love it.

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