Abide

Emmanuelworship is a Brisbane based collective that has been producing youth orientated catholic music for decades. They can be noisy at times, but have a lot more reflective material these days. Understandably, they deal in songs that resonate with a youth target demographic, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have wider applicability and liturgical usefulness.

I have blogged some of their collections and their masses in the past and I am now looking at their 2021 album, He Is Moving. They used to provide lead sheets, but of late we are only getting chord charts. That means I am trying to figure out the melody line for the backings I make and they may be approximate.

“Abide” is a sung prayer written by Chiara Keady – a youth psalm if you like. There are a couple in this collection, like this one, which could grace a second Rite of Reconciliation or find use as a Lenten reflection. Their version builds up to noise eventually, but it is not compulsory.

1 I have forgotten how good your plans are
Not there to add burden there to unleash me from them

Prechorus
Teach me to be child again, make my surrender wild again
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven

Chorus x2
Jesus
I’ll abide in you, I’ll abide in you

2 I’ll repose in you again
Trust in your goodness
You will take care of things
If I just let you in.

Prechorus

Chorus x2

Bridge x 2 (at least)
As I come to your feet
Dragging all of my burdens behind me
You release me, you redeem me
You have plans to take care of my everything.

Chorusx2

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