When the Son of God Was Dying (Gather Australia 510)

We are in a run of social concern songs from John Bell in Gather Australia that fit well with Lent and Holy Week coming up.

The text is at Hymnary where I found the chords that weren’t in the arrangement in GA. I like the urgency of the tune and the matter of fact lyrics. I also have the music inĀ Enemy of Apathy (also without chords – how hard is it?) where he adds this comment:

A song for Good Friday or any day on which we want to relate the death of Jesus, not just in Jerusalem, but to the need for salvation in the contemporary world and in ourselves.

You can buy it in that collection at Wild Goose.

My fussy backing:

 

 

 

 

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