There have been an avalanche of songs for Advent that I’ve never come across before from our correspondents, so I have plenty of new songs to sample.
This song is by Dan Schutte and was used as a recessional at one of Chris’s parishes. I suppose it’s the flip side to his “Though the Mountains May Fall”.
The sheet music is available at OCP and there is a sample of the song to listen to there. The text is here (scroll down).
This song’s verse has a tempo significantly faster than the refrain. I think this is asking for trouble as the tendency is not to return to the original tempo and a general acceleration occurs during the song.
In my backing I have used two very different styles to over-accentuate this, so for learning purposes:
In a more appropriately folky vein: