I find it interesting to see what John de Luca did with Folk Mass material. I suppose he must have looked at three chord wonders and realised they need something more for an organist to get stuck into.
This is a Sebastian Temple song that I blogged in the Praise to God Parish Hymn Book. Chris W reminded me it was in this collection too. It has a fair old range so it’s out of my league to sing.
The text is here. This is Mary’s area, so see what she had to say at Godsongs.
It seems de Luca thought it deficient in chords so he added a whole lot more. I assume the PTG version was just taken from the original:
I made a backing with the extra chords but still in folk style:
This is the orginal that goes from folk to barbershop: