I don’t remember ever singing this song with words by Luke Connaughton to a traditional tune, Cresswell, but I find a made a MIDI for it in the 1990s so I suppose I must have.
You can hear it on bells here and on church organ here.
1. Love is His word, Love is His way, Feasting with all, fasting alone, Living and dying, rising again Love only love is His way. Chorus Richer than gold is the love of my Lord. Better than splendour and wealth. 2. Love is His way, love is His mark, Sharing His last Passover feast. Christ at the table, host to the twelve Love, only love, is His mark. 3. Love is his mark, love is His sign, Bread for our strength, wine for our joy, This is my body, this is my blood Love, only love is His sign. 4. Love is His sign, love is His news, Do this He said Lest you forget All my deep sorrow, all my dear blood, Love, only love, is His news. 5. Love is His news, Love is His name, We are His own, chosen and called, Family, brethren, cousins and kin. Love, only love is His name. 6. Love is His name, love is His law, Hear His command, all who are His, Love one another, I have loved you Love, only love, is His law. 7. Love is His law, Love is His word, Love of the Lord, Father, and Word, Love of the Spirit, God ever one, Love, only love, is His word.
© McCrimmon Publishing
I would appreciate if you forward the lyrics and chords for the hymn
LOVE IS HIS WORD
G’Day Johann
I don’t put up copyrighted music, but in any case I don’t think I even have this one any more.
Hymnary has some details of hymnals in which it appears:
http://www.hymnary.org/tune/cresswell_milner
GIA sell it in a collection:
https://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=4590
This site has an arrangement of the song.
http://www.hymnsinharmony.freeserve.co.uk/
Best of luck
Geoff
Something to be aware of: the first US publication set to text to a different tune, JULINORMA by Robert Hutmacher . It is not the same as CRESSWELL which is in the Hymn in Harmony site linked to above.
I haven’t been able to work out which tune the GIA publication uses.
Well, you say Cresswell is “traditional”, but the hymnal I’m using says it was by A. Milner, who would be this chap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Milner
If he died in 2002, the tune might still be as copyright as the lyrics.
Although there have been some songs that I thought were traditional Irish music, which turned out to have been written in the 1970s… maybe “traditional” just means “older than me”? 🙂
Frank
G’Day Frank
You are absolutely correct of course. It the time I posted this I had a scrap of paper with the music on and no other details. I now have a copy of the music in The New Living Parish Hymnbook and the version I know is definitely set to CRESSWELL by Milner, although as pointed out by others this text has been set to other tunes.
I used to think that tunes with names like that were all traditional and now I know better, mostly thanks to kind correspondents.
Many thanks
Geoff
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