Jerusalem [ukulele instrumental]
Channel: Elliot Ward
Date: 2020-11-30

A ukulele version of the traditional English song "Jerusalem", originally recorded for www.reddit.com/r/ukulele 's regular challenge.

This song sets to music an earlier poem written by in the early 1800s by William Blake that concerns the tradition that Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea came to visit Glastonbury in South West England, when Jesus was a small child.

It was set to music during the first world war by Sir Hubert Parry, and was adopted as part of the Suffragists movement, and was later reorchestrated by Sir Edward Elgar. It's a perennial feature at the Last Night of the Proms, and an alternative to the official national anthem for those who find God Save the Queen too subservient and Rule Britannia too jingoistic.


Played on a Baton Rouge V2 Hotrod Concert ukulele, miked up with a pair of SE2s in to a Focusrite 2i2. Bass undertones by a naughty boiler.