Shirley Erena Murray wrote many of the texts in Alleluia Aotearoa and I have started a survey of these hymns.
When she wasn’t convicting us of our failures of charity, she was writing useful songs for specific liturgies. This is a baptism song, searching for the “bud of hope”.
The text is at Hope, where they have the setting by Allen Pote (GENERATION).
I did two backings for this, a BIAB church organ version mostly using the harmonies in the sheet music and one with simplified chords I made up. Parts of it sound like “One Tin Soldier”.
Alleluia Aotearoa chose a NZ musician, David Dell, to set this text (BUD OF HOPE). I can’t find this as an individual sheet on the internet but I just found out you can buy physical copies, or more practically the pdf version for download, of Alleluia Aotearoa here. The chords were provided this time, which is always a relief. Is is supposed to sound like “Did You Ever See A Lassie”?