If the last song was from my past, this is from my wife’s Catholic childhood. The tune fills her with dread with memories of singing it incessantly at her Catholic primary school. When she hears me do a tune like this she somewhat traumatised with flashbacks.
Yola’s parish mixes the most up to date tunes with folk mass songs from the sixties including this odd song by Sister Miriam Therese Winter MMS.
If you don’t think it is odd read the text here. I don’t mean bad by the way, just peculiar.
Hymnary have details of the hymnals in which you can find the sheet music, and Godsongs has the details of purchasing the collection that contains this and many other songs of the era.
My copy is in the old blue book Living Worship Hymnal and to my shame I got the chords watching someone play it on guitar on You Tube.
Thanks for the chords:
The original recordings are available on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/joy-is-like-the-rain/id480784201
I’m trying to find the folk mass version. It was one of the first tunes I learned to play on guitar. The other was ‘Sons of God’ – both were very simple guitar chords – my memory is that Spirit of God was like D A7 G… Thanks I’m 60 – I played that tune when I was 13.
Wow, that’s amazing Michele. If you are looking for the sheet music Mary at Godsongs says it is still in print – which is also amazing.
Geoff
hi
we have the music but wish to purchase so we can display the words via overhead projector in our churches. Does anyone know who has the copyright and how to obtain it? many thanks in anticipation
This is probably waaay too late, but the people who have the copyright to Spirit of God are the Medical Mission Sisters. If you go to their website: https://www.medicalmissionsisters.org/what-we-do/music-books.html and click on “contact us” I imagine they will happily help you with copyright information.
It’s never too late to help out – many thanks, Judy.
cheers
Geoff
thank you