While I’m not covering every last piece of liturgical music in Gather Australia, I would never pass up a baptism song with a text by Shirley Erena Murray.
The words are available from those lovely people at Hope Publishing here. They set it to Alan Pote’s GENERATION (and provide the sheet music), but GA uses BUD OF HOPE by David Dell, so I guess both tunes were written specifically for this text.
I haven’t got anymore information on this one and I’m always happy to know if people are using a song or know more about it.
I’ve made a backing for the version in Gather Australia. The first three bars are “Did you ever see a lassie?” but the tune comes into its own after that.
It was published in Alleluia Aotearoa (1993) with Bud of Hope.