From the Waiting Comes the Sign AA43

This is a great Pentecost text from Shirley Murray in Alleluia Aoteroa.

The text is at Hope Publications where it is set, as it is in AA, to SIGNUM by Colin Gibson. Just when you think you know where the tune is heading it darts off somewhere else – it also does go awfully high.

I made up some chords for the backing on the BIAB church organ.

For some reason I thought it needed a trip hop arrangement as well:

On real organ it sounds like this:

Of course because everyone wanted to cover her texts there are other settings, like this one from Michael Capon.

Even Tony Alonso has a lovely gentle setting with “come holy spirit, come” repeated before and after the verses. The sheet music is available at GIA, where you can hear his version.

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