To have a break from CWB II and get some singable songs on my blog I’m going to do all the Marty Haugen songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t already blogged from AOV etc over the years.
This is a joyous song for Christmas and Advent. I have my usual quibble about a lyric for the northern hemisphere, “though dark the winter and cheerless”. Maybe “though parched the summer and cheerless” works better for this end of the earth.
The text is available at Cantus Mundi.
It can be purchased for download at GIA.