John de Luca thought this chant did not work in English so he devised a macaronic version of the text, combining the English with Latin, that he thought worked better.
It is his arrangement of a plainsong Ave Maria.
I did try to make a backing with the usual less than stellar result for chant:
This is the straight Latin chant:
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