Selah-ah-ah

I know that I've fallen way behind in my promised postings... So, I'm going to go overboard today.

First of all, I said that I would be posting songs up here along with charts so that you may spread the goodness that is one Scott Ivey around the globe. Actually, in all seriousness, I feel that God has blessed me with some inspiration, and I would love to share it with you. Hopefully you will pass it on to your church, your friends, your ipod... I don't know.

Anyway, here is the next song. The chart is in C, but the recording is one half step low (just so you "play-it-by-ear" people don't get confused).

"Selah"

Chart in C
Song mp3

About the song...
I wrote this song while studying the psalms a couple years back. Every now and then I would come across the word "selah" in between verses. The funny thing about it was that the word was not a part of the text. I came to find out that it was actually a musical instruction that means to "pause and think". I thought that was awesome. It's something that we don't do very often in our worship songs today. They would sing the psalm, and collectivley stop and reflect on the God that they were singing to before continuing. I wrote this song in an attempt to show the profound nature of who God is, and the love that is poured out on all of us so that we might stop and think that God IS good... That He promised to take away the sins of the world... That He keeps His promises.

Recently, a singer/songwriter from Atlanta (Anna Houston) recorded her own version of Selah. Here's the link to her song (sorry, I don't have the chart).

Hope these postings are helpful, or at least entertaining.
Got another one coming soon!