I'll Be a Sunbeam Want Me for a Sunbeam". The latter version was covered by Nirvana. The hymn was also referenced in the lyrics of the song "Alibi" by Elvis Costello ("Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam?"). I'll Be a Sunbeam "I'll Be a Sunbeam" (also called "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam") is a popular children's Christian hymn composed by Nellie Talbot; it is sung to music composed in 1900 by Edwin O. Excell. Due to its age, the hymn has entered the public domain in the United States. Published in Chicago by Excell as hymn number 137 in his "Praises" in
Arfon (hymn tune) Arfon (hymn tune) Arfon is a traditional Welsh hymn tune which exists with major and minor variants. The hymn tune Arfon originates as a Welsh folk tune of six lines (with the second couplet [a duplicate of the first] being omitted), but it was adapted into a French hymn tune as the eight-line tune known today. In its major form, it can be used as an alternative tune for the Ascensiontide hymn "Hail, Thou once despised Jesus". In its minor form, it is the tune for the Passiontide hymn "Man of sorrows, wrapt in grief" by Matthew Bridges. <score vorbis="1">