This is an interesting 60s pop song hymn by Patrick Robert Norman Appleford – I love that CWB likes long names as if they were sentencing a murderer.
This is a communion hymn with origins in the youth ministry of the Anglican church. The supposed similarity to “Living Doll” is noted and dismissed at Godsongs, but it does sound like something Cliff could have sung.
The text is here.
I got chords from TIS but it was also in lots of UK and Irish hymnals, even the Irish Presbyterian hymnbook – it certainly didn’t reach my Presbyterian church in Australia. I’ve never heard in a Catholic church either, and I suppose it is from an era that has been passed by.
This is the original I think:
Amazingingly to me it has been embraced by choir and organ:
This is more the pop stylings that I would have expected:
This organ version has something of the funfair about it:
To me it sounds like the “This Nearly Was Mine” from South Pacific.