Let My Tongue Be Silenced

This is the last psalm in Paul Mason’s collection, Psalms For All Time Vol 2. All three volumes are available to purchase at Liturgical Song. I have the third and will get to it at some stage. All three will costs you~$A120, which is not a lot each for your parish musicians, to have a psalm for everything and lots of songs that work as general hymns as well.

This is the psalm for the Fourth Sunday of Lent Year B, and incorporates the line “By the rivers of Babylon” so he has the task to make sure your brain doesn’t slip into another tune, which he handles with his usual inventiveness.

Response: Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

Verses: Psalm 137: 1-2, 3, 4-5, 6.

He has put a version of this one on his site, which sounds great – as if Nick Cave was involved. It makes you wish there were more samples to listen to there. I didn’t listen to that before I made my rather bland version:

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