Garrett Breeze

There is a Green Hill Far Away (Arrangement Breakdown)

Cecil Alexander was an Anglican schoolteacher and poet born in Ireland in 1818.  Among the most well-known of her 200 hymns is “There is a Green Hill Far Away,” first published without music in her 1848 book Hymns for Little Children—the proceeds of which were used to fund a school for deaf and mute children.  […]