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Give Me Joy in My Heart

This song is one of the very few songs we use sometimes, that I sang in my Presbyterian Sunday School forty something years ago. We did it as “Give Me Oil in My Lamp” and had weird joke verses (eg … Continue reading →

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Gifts

I have never taken to this song by Jane Mitchell but it is very suitable for the procession of the gifts and is probably best used by children. It can be done with an echo effect. Andrew Chinn did the arrangement, … Continue reading →

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Music for Most Holy Trinity (Year B) 2nd/3rd June

I’ve been forgetting to put up what the liturgy team at our church has selected for each week – I’ll try to do better.   Entrance: Send the Fire (Booth) Psalm: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Gifts: Song of … Continue reading →

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The Fruits of the Spirit

This is a piece a choir our children were in sang years ago and it was decided we should do it at church.  It was better as a children’s choir piece as can be heard here. You can purchase it … Continue reading →

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For You Have Been Our Hope (aka Sovereign Lord)

This is a song based on Ps 71 by Ian Roberts who is English and published through Kevin Mayhew, but otherwise I can find nothing about him on the net.  The song is in this collection if you need it. … Continue reading →

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For Those Tears I Died (aka Come to the Water)

I’m still going through my miscellaneous file of songs not from As One Voice and this is another handwritten and scarcely legible relic. This is a song by Marsha J Stevens-Pino that we must have sang once or twice and … Continue reading →

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Follow the Christmas Star

A great song by Michael Mangan for your next Christmas pageant. It is noticeable for the ability to get “gold, frankincense and myrrh” to scan! This is another of Michael’s songs available on Sing Your Joy. It is also available … Continue reading →

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Flowing River (Pour Your Holy Spirit Upon Me)

This is a useful song by Rita Baloche for situations you might use a Vene Sancte.  It’s a highly syncopated modern chant if you like. It works as a hushed song until “Like a living stream.” We got it out … Continue reading →

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The Eucharist Song

I really should do a more Frank Andersen songs and I’ll get around to it at some stage. This is a quiet a reverent Eucharist song that still gets listed from time to time. It looks like you have to … Continue reading →

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Enter, Rejoice, and Come In

This song is by Louise Ruspini. It is a gathering tune of Unitarian origin and I have a crumpled hand written copy. I gather it is in the Unitarian hymnal “Singing the Living Tradition” that you can buy from Amazon. … Continue reading →

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