John Michael Talbot’s take on the Magnificat is a lovely restrained folk tune. It is delightful as a solo, but I’ll have to see if YouTube records any assemblies having a go at it (It does – see below). The tune shares some motifs with John Denver’s “For Baby (For Bobby)”.
The text is at spiritandsong and the sheet music can be purchased for download at OCP.
The original:
Some Methodists sing a wonderful harmonised version:
But Catholics can sing it too:
The Magnificat seems to suggest a solo female version to me:
There are lots of versions on Youtube so it must be well known – even in Poland: