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What does aiden mean in the song "When They Ring Those Golden Bells"?

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 14803 **5/12/16 9:29 pm**

I was just trying to wind down by playing a word game on the internet. I put the word "aiden" in, but that was not accepted. Twisted Evil

I knew I had heard that word somewhere besides a friend's granddaughter's name. It came back to me that it is in the song "When They Ring Those Golden Bells" on p. 294 in the red back hymnal: "...Never more with anguish laden, we shall reach that lovely aiden..."
The internet is not helping me much with the definition of "aiden." Any of you folks know what the word means?

(And extra credit if you know what supernal means, lol.)

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 5923 **5/12/16 10:15 pm**

I found three different sites that have "Eden" where you have "aiden."

http://www.newreleasetoday.com/lyricsdetail.php?lyrics_id=76240

http://www.hymnary.org/text/theres_a_land_beyond_the_river_that_we_c

http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/h/e/whenthey.htm

As a baby name, "Aiden" means "little fiery one," but I don't think that will fit.

Perhaps OTCP was writing those lyrics for the Red Back... Laughing

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Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 5923 **5/12/16 10:16 pm**

Supernal

a : being or coming from on highb : heavenly, ethereal <supernal melodies>c : superlatively good <supernal trumpet playing>

: located in or belonging to the sky

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Acts-pert Poster Posts: 15570 **5/12/16 11:13 pm**

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16509 **5/13/16 5:51 am**

It's time like these that I miss my father-in-law. I guarantee he would have known. He was Google before Google. 😀

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 14803 **5/13/16 7:17 am**

Carolyn, I kinda glanced around at a few lyrics on the web before I consulted the SOURCE. On the web, you find all kinds of mondegreens. Lyricsmode was as far out as this: "Never more with anguish laidin' we shall reach that lovely aimin'." That was so ridiculous, I went to the living room and fetched the REAL REDBACK, copyright 1951, by Tennessee Music and Printing Company.
It has "ai-den," separated like that where you sing two different notes. I thought from the context it must mean Eden, haven, or heaven, but I really don't know why it is spelled "aiden" in my hymnal.
I guess they had to make it rhyme, lol.

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16646 **5/13/16 7:19 am**

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 14803 **5/13/16 7:27 am**

Well, it's hardly a stretch to associate commodious with comfort if you think about it. (Just a tip of the hat to ole MTWC, there, lol.)

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