The Lord is My Shepherd (Boniwell) AOV1/26

This setting of the twenty third Psalm wins the local popularity stakes.   It was written by prolific local Queensland songwriter, Brian Boniwell, about whom I know nothing in particular, but whose music I have been playing for simply ages. Despite departing from the text somewhat it still gets a Yes from the NLMB.

Paul Gurr’s version can be purchased on I-Tunes by following this link.

You can hear a tasteful version on guitar and vocal here…or you could learn it from the backing if you are not familar with it.

Verse 1

The Lord is my Shepherd, and I want to follow,
wherever he leads me, wherever he goes.
Over the mountains, the waters and by-ways,
valleys and highways he’s waiting for me.

Refrain

I want to go to meet him there, to lay myself down in his love.
The Lord is my shepherd, and I want to follow,
wherever he leads me, wherever he goes.

Verse 2

And while on the journey to where we are going,
he promised to be there to help us along.
And over the mountains we’ll walk on together,
to know all the wonders he’s given to me

Refrain

© Spectrum Publications, 1978.

http://www.spectrumpublications.com.au/

 

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15 Responses to The Lord is My Shepherd (Boniwell) AOV1/26

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  2. dale says:

    I would be interested in a copy of the sheet music with the copyright okay on it – I can’t find it available on musicnotes.com or any other sheet music online company. Any ideas?

  3. admin says:

    G’Day Dale.

    It’s a problem. Brian Boniwell has no web presence and there is nothing at Spectrum’s site. Having said that you could contact Spectrum and see if they have it in some form.

    The only official source I can find is in the As One Voice Collections.

    Geoff

  4. Sylvia Draper says:

    We have found it also in the “Together in Song” – Australian Hymn Book II. A beautiful worship song….

    • admin says:

      Thanks, Sylvia, so it is.

      I found a copy of TIS at the Lifeline book sale yesterday which was some compensation for failing to find an accompaniment version of Gather Australia.

      Geoff

    • dale davey says:

      I’ll have a look for this book online – many thanks Sylvia. I live in NZ, so a little more awkward in some ways.

  5. Christian Catsanos says:

    There’s a postal address in the index of copyright owners in As One Voice Volume 1. I can’t remember the address but I can look it up if you like; or if you find it easy to do so yourself (if you have access to As One Voice) you can look it up. So you can contact Brian directly. Brian is 66 now and wrote the hymn in 1981 when he was 32; but the index is from the most recent As One Voice edition (published in I think 2010 or 2011) so I’d be surprised if it wasn’t up to date.

  6. Frank Negric says:

    Hello,

    some trivia…

    I can’t say for sure whether the hymn author Brian Boniwell is the same Brian Boniwell about to refer to but … I was a student from the mid 1970s through to the early 1980s at Marist Brothers Rosalie (in Paddington, Brisbane) which was a Catholic Junior and High School for boys. Mr Brian Boniwell was a teacher there. He was definetly the Grade 8 class head master in 1979 and I recall him being there in about Grade 6 (or Grade 7) which would be about 1977 or 1978.

    To add to this story I recall him in about Grade 6 being very excited because he had written a hymn or was writing a hymn and had received postive feedback from someone.

    Regards
    Frank

  7. Deborah Millardship says:

    Could you pls help me with a backing version of this beautiful hymn? I want to sing it at my mother’s funeral and the general midi versions on the net are pretty ordinary. Do you know who I can contact, I am willing to pay.

  8. Deborah Millardship says:

    Thanks for the reply Geoff, your version is so much nicer, flows better and is easier to sing to. I will keep on looking and hopefully get lucky

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