Just when I think history has erased everything from A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal, another tunes arises phoenix like at GIA.
This Neil Blunt psalm for Penetecost is not out of print. The antiphon should be fine, although doubtless the verses won’t match whatever local or temporal version you or I currently have. I’ll be looking at another volume of Paul Mason’s wonderful psalms soon, which will be another chance to tie down the weirdness of Anglophone psalm wording choices.
The sheet music in Eugene Englert’s arrangement is available at GIA, where the text is in their preview.
Blunt’s original chords work fine:
Englert adds some sophistication so is less “folk” I suppose – note the more inventive bass runs:
This uses the original chords:
These doesn’t:
I would suppose the newer arrangement pulled it out of the Folk Mass genre and into regular church music.
Folk Mass seems to be young people with guitars singing in the popular 60s folk style.
When it gets moved along to piano (shudder) and organ (smile) for church, it loses its distinctive folk sound.
Make Me A Channel of Your Peace and Kearney’s Beatitudes are some folk songs that make total sense when sung with organ, and blend right in.