This is a typically blunt text from John Bell that has a specific use for adult baptism but fits the discipleship section Gather 3rd ed. well enough.
It is set to a traditional Scottish tune, O GIN I WERE A BARON’S HEIR by Joseph William Holder, not that GIA let you know that in case you find the public domain music elsewhere. I have John Bell’s arrangement in his I Will Not Sing Alone collection, but GIA have an arrangement by Tony Alonso and Michael Mahler. Copyrighting such things is a very lucrative arrangement, but I grant that the guitar version I have shows little of the work that has gone into the full sheet music you can see in their preview at GIA. The text is on page 2 of this leaflet.
In my backing I ignored the notes provided for the interludes and let BIAB use its whistle.
Of the versions below, the original from Wild Goose shreds the admittedly gorgeous Alonso version, but I do like the stripped back versions from the various churches a lot.
Nice to hear Chris Brunelle doing a GIA song:
The original song is a pip: