I have a few left from Gen Bryant’s Send Us Out collection and am enjoying the new songs that I haven’t heard before.
This is another quiet reflective sung prayer from her about hearing God’s call.
The sheet music for the whole band is at Willow.
The text is at her site.
My backing is just BIAB piano under the melody.
She has had this one for a while. She was still Genevieve then.
This is a prayer to God for when we feel far away by Gen Bryant. It is from the collection Send Us Out, where they suggest the parable of the prodigal son as a relevant scripture, which sounds about right.
There is sheet music for everyone in the band at Willow. The text is at her site.
My version is typical pads lead to guitar and the drums kick in for a slow burn p&w backing.
Her version keeps it more simple and her vocal has a Cranberries vibe.
This is a sung prayer for times of trouble, looking for guidance from God. It is by Gen Bryant and from her collection Send Us Out that I have been looking through.
It a gentle thoughtful piece for reflection.
It can bought as sheet music for many instruments at Willow.
This is my backing made on BIAB.
1 Speak into my darkness, speak into my soul.
When I’m overwhelmed and I have lost control.
Will you be the light that guides the way before me?
So, out of the shadows, I know I will stand strong.
Prechorus
Oh, I need your light. I need your peace.
So dwell within my heart so I may see.
Oh, I need your light. I need your peace.
So dwell within my heart so I may see.
Chorus
You are the light within me.
You’re showing me the way.
Help me to shine brighter.
Help me to shine brighter.
You are the light within me.
You’re showing me the way.
Help me to shine brighter
For the world surrounding me.
2 Fill me with compassion, fill me with belief.
I pray that I’m the first to love when others fail to see.
I will walk beside you if you will trust in me.
I will be the light you need if you will believe.
Prechorus
Chorus
© 2020 Gen Bryant. Published by Willow Publishing.
This is a song from Gen Bryant‘s collection Send Us Out that could be used as a reflection in a liturgy with social justice themes or as a prompt to reflection on inequality and loneliness. The reminder and the challenge is that we are the agents of change.
My backing suggests the song is more country than perhaps intended.
This is the next song in Gen Bryant‘s collection Send Us Out.
I’ve actually blogged it already but I am reposting to include it in this series.
The sheet music can be purchased in forms suitable for all the members of your school band here.
The lyrics are where I posted them.
I’m working my way through Gen Bryant‘s collection Send Us Out, available at Willow. It is ideal for schools but some of the songs will work in parish situations.
This is a song of praise and a call to action. It is an acknowledgement that young people (OK and everyone else) have a voice and should use it – and get out and be active in their communities. There is a second vocal line so this might be best for soloist and choir.
The sheet music is available in single sheets in versions for the whole band as well at Willow. In the compiled book you get the very long piano sheet music for these songs and I suspect guitarists in performance will make their own chord charts, as none of the provided sheets are for a singing rhythm guitarist (ie chords over words).
I made a rousing backing, but I could not find the lyrics on her website this time.
Raise it up, raise it up (x3)
Come on, raise up your voice!
Our hearts have come alive, come alive!
Come on, raise up your voice!
Our hearts have come alive, come alive!
Chorus
Come on, raise up your voice! [Raise it up!x2]
Our hearts have come alive, come alive!
Come on, raise up your voice! [Raise it up!x2]
Our hearts have come alive, come alive!
1 You know our ev’ry breath. You know our hearts desire.
It’s your love alive in us; it’s your love that lifts us up.
Chorus
2 When darkness falls on us and fear is taking over,
We need your love alive in us: we need your love to lift us up.
Chorus
Bridge 1
[When the chips are down and times are tough]
Raise it up! Raise it up!
[When the sun shines out and you feel that love.]
Raise it up! Raise it up!
[Rain or shining Lord ask that I’ll…]
Raise it up! Raise it up!
[Lord, I promise that all my life, I’ll…]
Raise it up!
Bridge 2 (x2)
We come alive,
a-a-a-live, a-a-a-live, Oh we come alive!
We come alive,
a-a-a-live, a-a-a-live, Oh we come alive!
Chorus (x2)
Let’s raise it up! (x4)
© 2015 Gen Bryant. Published by Willow Publications.
I could only find this solo guitar version by Gen Bryant on YouTube and I can’t find it on Spotify, but you can purchase the Mp3 at Willow.
When we all looking for new mass settings 12-13 years ago I looked at a lot of them on this blog.
I looked at Ed Bolduc’s Mass of St Ann here. I don’t think it is used much in Australia.
I have had a request for the backings without the lead line. These are the BIAB files from 2011 with the melody removed rendered to Mp3:
Gloria
Gospel Acclamation
Holy Holy
When We Eat This Bread
Great Amen
Lamb of God
This is a dance banger from Gen Bryant that could be used as a song of praise or for gathering at a school mass. It has lots of woo-oohs. It was written for the Catholic Youth Festival and is based on one of the Beatitudes.
The sheet music is available in the collection Send Us Out at Willow. It is also available as single sheets for various instruments.
The lyrics are at her website.
My backing is a bit messy.
The original published music for this Mass did not have an Alleluia. A kind correspondent last year sent me a beautifully printed version of music he transcribed from a hand written original sent to him by Paul Taylor.
The refrain uses the motif of the Memorial Acclamations:
Alleluia x5
The verses are chant – the first line pitching the notes as A until the last 3 notes go G, Bb, A and the second line again on A until G, F, F.
We happily use his mass every week and use the Celtic Alleluia instead, as did my last parish. I blogged the mass here.
I don’t know the status of the Alleluia but I figure it must be out there as I have received inquiries.
This is a prayerful reflection in song from Gen Bryant‘s collection Send Us Out.
The collection is available to purchase at Willow. You can also get singles sheets for various instruments as well.
I didn’t mention yesterday that you can also buy her MP3s there, although she is on Spotify as well. The sheet music is augmented with study sheets and reflections for each song making this an even more useful resource for schools.
The lyrics are at her site.
I made a backing on BIAB.
She has two versions on You Tube.
