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
W. H. Jude "Festival March in C". Many of his compositions are of the Victorian parlour music variety. He was a keen writer of high-Victorian hymns, and his hymn tune "Galilee" was widely printed and applied to several texts, although notably "Jesus Calls Us" by Cecil Frances Alexander. In 1900, he published a collection of his own hymn tunes entitled "Music and the Higher Life". Several of his hymn settings, such as "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Eventide" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" are better known in alternative settings. Jude wrote the words of a few hymns. "Speak to me, Lord, and calm this