I’ve moved from Lent to Holy Week in Spirit & Song Vol 2 and come to Twila Paris’s “Your Only Son”. It sounds like a traditional celtic folk tune but apparently she wrote it in 1985.
It has adventurous rhymes for “God” to whit: sod, fraud and rod.
I worry that delicate lilting tunes like this suffer at the hands of the noise we assemblies make, but participation is what we are all about.
The text is at spiritandsong. The sheet music can be purchased for download at musicnotes.
Here’s my backing:
This is the Kingdom Seekers version with an interesting instrumental break and a generally overblown arrangement.
This is more restrained:
This is the Maranatha singers:
Sarah Reeves:
Keith Lancaster & The Acappella Company:
Regina Rossi:
Irish whistle:
Piano:
Ocarina!
Popular isn’t it.