This collection [And the Angels Sang from Patrica Smith] has some thoughtful songs sung from the perspective of Mary – they are unsettling and mysterious in a good way. This is just such a song. Her text is here married to a setting she has created that is just gorgeous, but will need delicate care and is best as a short solo I suspect.
If you aren’t buying the collection, she has put the individual sheets up for sale by download so everyone can get their copy.
My BIAB arrangement is never going to match her piano arrangement, but since I can’t play that, I made this:
1 The child that stirs beneath my heart,
Waking the hope and joy that fill me,
Will one day stand, facing death and battle,
My only child, my joy. Mmm-mm, mmm-mm.
2 The child that rests beneath my heart,
Light at the distant end of longing,
Will one day charge other longing hearts
With Love beyond all love. Mmm-mm, mmm-mm.
3 The child that waits beneath my heart,
Hearing a voice that no-one else hears,
The shining sun in my fragile hands,
Is Light to end all darkness. Mmm-mm, mmm-mm.
© 2018 P A Smith published by Willow Publishing