title: Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
text: # Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
  
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  Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time is the eighth studio album of poetry spoken and sung by American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1968. Composer-conductor Peter Schickele (of P. D. Q. Bach fame) did the orchestration, as he had on Baez's previous albums Noël (1966) and Joan (1967).
  
  The album was released during a time when many folk, pop and rock artists were experimenting with mixing their music with classical orchestration (e.g. The Beatles, Judy Collins, The Rolling Stones.)
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Side 1
  
  * "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)
  * "I Saw the Vision of Armies" (Walt Whitman)
  * "Minister of War" (Arthur Waley)
  * "Song In the Blood" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacques Prévert)
  * "Casida of the Lament" (J.L. Gili, Federico García Lorca)
  * "Of the Dark Past" (James Joyce)
  * "London" (William Blake)
  * "In Guernica" (Norman Rosten)
  * "Who Murdered the Minutes" (Henry Treece)
  * "Oh, Little Child" (Henry Treece)
  * "No Man Is an Island" (John Donne)
  
  ### Side 2
  
  * "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (James Joyce)
  * "All the Pretty Little Horses" (Traditional)
  * "Childhood III" (Arthur Rimbaud, Louis Varese)
  * "The Magic Wood" (Henry Treece)
  * "Poems from the Japanese" (Kenneth Rexroth)
  * "Colours" (Peter Levi, Robin Milner-Gulland, Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
  * "All in green went my love riding" (E. E. Cummings)
  * "Gacela of the Dark Death" (Federico García Lorca, Stephen Spender)
  * "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (Wilfred Owen)
  * "Evil" (N. Cameron, Arthur Rimbaud)
  * "Epitaph for a Poet" (Countee Cullen)
  * "Mystic Numbers- 36"
  * "When The Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven" (James Joyce)
  * "The Angel" (William Blake)
  * "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
  * Peter Schickele - composer, conductor
  
  ## Chart positions
  
  | Year | Chart | Position |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1968 | Billboard Pop Albums | 84 |
  