“Songs like ‘How Great Thou Art,’ they’re great the way they are,” said singer-songwriter Matt Maher. “But this is part of a long tradition; composers have always taken lyrics and ...

Harry Connick Jr. would kill for love. "Death would be the extreme," he conceded of a situation fomented by the kind of torrid passion, jealousy and betrayal that drive the murderous plot of "Thou ...

He paraphrased the first two verses in English and was inspired to write the third and fourth verses of “How Great Thou Art” over a 14-year period, according to his trust’s website.