This is a Christmas song with a text by Shirley Murray that she called the “Hunger Carol”. This is a a great lyric but is, let us say, astringent.
For example:
cold and raw, you know our hunger,
weep out tears and cry our anger,
…
by our greed we crucify you
on a Christmas tree,
Son of poverty.
The full text and sheet music are at Hope Publishing Company. They use the setting (UTRECHT) by Doug Mews. I made up some chords for this BIAB backing.
Alleluia Aotearoa has that backing and also a lovely one by Ian Render (JENNIFER’S GIFT) who I believe was the Dean of Waiapu. My backing has chords I based on the sheet music.
There is also a setting by Carol Brown available at GIA.
This clip fails to acknowledge Shirley Murray as the composer of the text.
This setting is by David Haas, so it will never be used. The clip has the gall to say the lyricist is anonymous!