This is a request from Frenzy Cool in the Phillipines. It isn’t one we’ve ever used – we use the Bernadette Farrell tune instead. It is by Cyprian Consiglio who appears very prolific.
I’ve worked this out from the sample pages at OCP, so if you are going to use this song, go there and buy the music. You can hear a short sample here.
Refrain
Unless a grain of wheat shall fall onto the ground and die
It shall remain a single grain and never bear new life;
But if it dies it will yield a great harvest.
Verse 1
When every haughty head bends low,
The salt will flavour the earth,
The yeast will raise the dough,
And death will yield new birth.
Refrain
Verse 2
And when the pains of life persist,
We know the healing art,
For love cannot resist
A broken, humbled heart.
Refrain
Verse 3
So may we never dare to boast
Except in death like this;
And may we desire the most
To live a life like his.
Refrain
© Cyprian Consiglio 1996, 2007.