The last of the Shirley Murray texts in Alleluia Aotearoa is another of her lovely Christmas songs.
The text and sheet music by Colin Gibson is at Hope Publishing.
My backing on Band in a Box uses approximate chords and completely ignores the suggestion to slow down in the last two bars.
Murray has left a marvellous legacy of words that convict and reveal a passion for justice. She also illustrates the usefulness of metrical texts. Her hymns are rooted in New Zealand and the seasons of the Southern Hemisphere. She is missed.