I started having a look at all the songs that David MacGregor has posted on his website earlier in the year, but I didn’t even get through all of the “C”s, so I’ll continue where I left off. David MacGregor is a Uniting church minister from Brisbane who has been writing songs for a couple of decades.
This is a very recent song with a text based on Isaiah 61:1-2 and Psalm 34:17-18. It sounds a bit like Pope Francis asking shepherds to smell of the sheep – acknowledging a call to be Christ to those lost. It rocks along nicely. There is a spot in the third and tenth bar of the verse where I had to change the chord to G. MacGregor is either more adventurous than I am (not hard) or he forgot to put the G chords in.
You can see what I am mean when you look at the sheet music he has freely provided. The lyrics provided on his website don’t match those in the sheet music so I have changed them to match.
He has providing a backing track, which didn’t stop me making my own, with a lot of BIAB bongos.
Spirit, you’ve anointed me.
Spirit God, you’re calling me.
Spirit, you’re empowering me,
To grace the broken-hearted.Freedom for captives, bound.
Comfort for saddened down.
Beauty for ashes found.
Gladness ‘stead of mourning.
Hope for those who’re falling.
Close to … the broken-hearted.Lord, you hear the call
of your people when they fall.
You rescue … in times of trouble.
Lord you come ever close
To the broken-hearted, lost.
You save when spirits crushed and breaking.Spirit you’ve anointed me.
Spirit God, you’re calling me.
Spirit, you’re empowering me
To grace the broken-heartedFreedom for captives, bound.
David MacGregor ©️ 2023 Willow Publishing
Comfort for saddened, down.
Beauty for ashes found.
Gladness ‘stead of mourning.
Hope for those who’re falling.
Close to … the broken-hearted.
Close to … the broken-hearted.