I’m having a break in Tasmania, but I’ll post occasionally while here.
In my seemingly never ending survey of Catholic Worship Book II, I am skipping songs I have already looked at, which have often been from the more recent repertoire (1980s and onwards – AOV etc). This means the songs that are new to me fit under the category of more traditional hymnody. Often in CWB II there are fairly recent texts to old tunes, as with this hymn by Jane Parker Huber set to LEONI, a c18 Hebrew synagogue tune.
Some of the texts I’m finding seem obvious and banal, but perhaps rescued in the singing. This one though, has enough sparkle in the words alone to be worth mention and the gall to rhyme “prod” and “God”!
The text is here.
I got the chords from TIS to make a backing.