We’d love to share this one freely like the rest — but third-party licensing means it isn’t available for listening or download here. Click to hear it offsite!
One of my first, if not the first, memories of childhood is of either this song, or perhaps "Tiny Bubbles," and I'm not sure which, because I think at times I have experienced the same euphoric feeling of something very close to the time my life was beginning when I have heard either one.
For a while I had wanted an arrangement of children singing this song, since that's what I've often heard in my mind whenever I think of it. This arrangement comes close to realizing that vision — though the "children" you hear are entirely AI-generated, engineered as part of The Heartfelt Digital Ensemble. Getting AI to produce believable children's voices, and to handle the call-and-response between those voices and the AI male vocal, took considerable trial and error. Production was slow-going and tedious at times, but I believe it paid off.
During the creation of the album this song is on, I set out to obtain licensing for a "derivative work" consisting of this song transitioning into an original song I wrote called "Safe & Secure." I was not able to get the licensing for the derivative work and in fact more than one knowledgeable person told me that I didn't need to get the licensing in order to do the particular thing I wanted to do. The recommendation was just to include a cover version of "Praise You Father" on one track and then "Safe & Secure" on the very next track and create a gapless separation between the two. So that is what I did. If you play the two songs on streaming sites that feature gapless playback, you should hear them as intended.