This song is based on the readings for the seventeenth week in Ordinary Time, Year A and has thoughts from the Psalm, the Book of Kings and the reading in Matthew’s Gospel. I tried to incorporate some lines from the medieval poem “Pearl” but I couldn’t get them to fit. The text aspires to be impressionistic in a simple way.
I was thinking of a David Kitt style quiet folk electronica, which doesn’t really lend itself to congregational singing. I did two backings:
1. Precious pearl of great price to decorate a throne
Is Wisdom in the Reign of God
Worth selling ev’rything we own
Chorus
Old Treasure, New Treasure
Old Treasure, New Treasure
Wisdom in the Reign of God
Joy in His command.
Wisdom in the Reign of God.
A heart to understand.
2. Found in a field unearned a treasure more than gold
Is Wisdom in the Reign of God
Worth ev’rything that we have sold.
Chorus
Sheet Music: Old Treasure New Treasure
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