This alleluia for Easter Sunday is a capella with just percussion accompaniment – shaker and bodran. It is certainly joyous but really needs the harmony in the refrain and call and response in the verse. The music is by Janet Sullivan Whitaker setting a traditional text (verses 1-3) with a fourth verse by Charles Wesley.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download. The song can be heard here.
For my backing I guessed the chords and made it a samba.
This choir is not always quite together but are tremendous nonetheless especially once everyone arrives: