OCP added Tom Kendzia’s setting of this traditional Irish blessing to Breaking Bread in 2017.
It is pleasant and singable.
The sheet music is available at OCP. Based on the number of You Tube clips it is popular.
May the road rise up to meet you
May the wind be always be at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
The rain falls soft upon your fieldsAnd until we meet again
Until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of his handAnd until we meet again
Until we meet again
(trad)
May God hold you
May God hold you
May God hold you in the palm of his hand
- Lyrics corrected thanks to Sabrina
Hi Six Maddens
Love this blog, which I found during lockdown 1 here in Ireland inMarch 2020.
Love this Tom Kendzia, which I’ve used with school choir .
Lyrics of 1st verse seem to have a gone a little askew there.
Words I have are:”May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields”
Anyway thanks for keeping me going even when we couldn’t sing at Mass and introducing me to all the lovely Australian church music.
keep up the good work!
God bless
Sabrina
Many thanks Sabrina – I was lazy and copy pasted from a site that must have misheard the lyrics:
https://www.smule.com/song/tom-kendzia-until-we-meet-again-karaoke-lyrics/180443184_563606/arrangement
Still, its pretty funny that way:
May the sun shine hard upon your face
The rain falls soft upon your feet
It made me laugh a lot when I saw what I’d posted.
cheers
Geoff