This is a typical Christopher Willcock setting, this time of Psalm 26 (27). The refrain is singable, if too high, but the cantor doing the verses has odd notes and time changes to contend with.
The sheet music can be purchased at Willow. I already looked at it while doing AOV, but have redone it in fake BIAB organ.
Refrain
Do not be afraid, I am with you.
I have called you by your name, you are mine.
I have called you by your name, you are mine.
1 The Lord is my light and my help; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life; before whom shall I shrink?
2 There is one thing I asked of the Lord; for this I long:
to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
3 I am sure I shall see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.
Hope in Him! Hold firm and take heart. Hope in the Lord.
Christopher Willcock has an unusual connexion to the Wiggles.
Both he and Phillip Wilcher (an OG Wiggle), were Catholic Classical pianists and composers from Sydney.
Phillip Wilcher was the original 5th Wiggle, who left the group after their first album in 1991, the same year that he was baptised Catholic after being converted by Anthony.
And if we wish to recall that Richard Connolly was also a Catholic Classical pianist from Sydney, who worked at the ABC, we will canonise the Wiggles eventually.
… and Simon from the current Wiggles would make a good cantor.
Geoff