Tina wanted this song that we’ve never used locally but I noticed it in the liturgy Chris put up in the comments here a couple of weeks ago. It is by Dan Feiten and you can hear a sample at the publisher here and I found the sheet music in Gather Australia. It is also available to buy from Ekklesia. It is a serene Eucharist song drawing on beautiful images from the Didache, 1 Cor 10 and Mark 4.
My copy of Gather Australia has no chords so BIAB had to work them out for me.
Refrain:
Seed, scattered and sown,
wheat, gathered and grown,
bread, broken and shared as one,
the living Bread of God.
Vine, fruit of the land,
wine, work of our hands,
one cup that is shared by all,
the living Cup, the living Bread of God.1.
Is not the bread we break, a sharing in our Lord?
Is not the cup we bless, the blood of Christ outpoured?Refrain
2.
The seed which falls on rock will wither and will die.
The seed within good ground will flower and have life.Refrain
3.
As wheat upon the hills was gathered and was grown,
So may the church of God be gathered into one.Refrain
© Ekklesia Music 1987.
This is so lovely how do I get the music and words from the net?
Would like to use it for January 17th, 2016.
G’Day Elaine
This is one our parish got around to learning well after I posted this and it works well. My problem is I lose my place in the chorus while watching my guitar chords and sing Vine instead of Seed. We even have real music now so I don’t have to fudge the chords.
It was most remiss of me not to link to where the sheet music is available to download for a couple of dollars at OCP.
http://www.ocp.org/compositions/1653#tab:sheetmusic
Hymnary also notes it’s appearance in 4 hymnals so it’s worth checking there in case your church already has it. It is in Gather Comprehensive for example, which is probably where it was sourced for Gather Australia.
http://www.hymnary.org/tune/seed_scattered_feiten
cheers
Geoff
I should point out, as I believe you are Canadian, that I am jealous of your cold weather. It’s not even officially summer here in Queensland, Australia and it is very hot, humid and stormy already.
Geoff