Song Musings

Did you know that the lyrics to “The King and I” by Mosie Lister are nearly impossible to find online? At least, I was unable to find them. We learned it in our church choir. I thought that it seemed an odd, not-exactly-pleasant way to end the song – its chorus, that is. It says, “How He could care for me will always be a mystery. He holds the whole world in His hands, but what am I? And so my heart somehow can’t help but wonder why we’re together, the King and I.”
The thing is, there’s no resolution. What kind of a song ends with disbelief? It seems *wrong* to me. And, so, I have “rewritten” part of the last chorus, in my head, so that it resolves. My version is, “…and so my heart is filled with love and wonder that we’re together, the King and I!”