Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" is a song originally recorded by Scottish alternative band The Vaselines for their EP "Dying for It". It is a parody on the Christian children's hymn, "I'll Be a Sunbeam," which has the opening line "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam." The song was little-known outside the indie-pop scene until Nirvana recorded the song in November 1993. The song released on the album and the DVD for their live acoustic "MTV Unplugged in New York" was titled "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" . The Vaselines re-released
Jerusalem the Golden (hymn) to duple and used it for the tune of "Jerusalem the Golden". In his notes to the third edition of "Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences" in 1867 Neale remarked that Ewing's tune was "the earliest written, the best known, and with children the most popular" for use with "Jerusalem the Golden". Jerusalem the Golden (hymn) "Jerusalem the Golden" is a nineteenth-century Christian hymn by John Mason Neale. The text is from Neale's translation of a section of Bernard of Cluny's Latin verse satire "De Contemptu Mundi". Richard Chenevix Trench included 95 lines from the beginning of Bernard's 3000-line poem in his