This is from an Easter musical called “He Lives” that Leo Watt wrote in the 1970s. It’s range betrays it’s theatrical origins but if you have the talent on hand it would suit veneration on Good Friday.
I suspect a typo in the music – whenever there is an F# in a bar with a Dm I’ve substituted an F natural and it sounds right. Follow the instructions on this page to get the sheet music.
Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.
My life is slowly fading and my tears I cry for you.
But why? Tell me why must it end in this way?
I shouldn’t be a failure who dies hanging on a cross.
I’ve been abandoned by my friends and now Father by you.
O you who pass by me now, you can’t see all the sorrow I bear,
Do not harden up your hearts and do not walk alone in fear.
I am with you, I am in you, I am near.
Father, Father, it’s over.
Into your hands I entrust my soul.
© Leo Watt 1980, 2015