This is another communion song from David Haas’s “Table Songs.”
It has eight verses, which gives the liturgists a chance to pick the most appropriate ones.
You can listen to the song at Haas’s Myspace site where you will hear the singable chorus and the held D at the end of the verse that suggests a cantor. I can’t find the text anywhere on the net but the whole book is $5.95 at GIA and the single sheet is available at various sites for $1.20.
This is another song from David Haas’s “Table Songs”. It was originally written for a wedding but is certainly fine as a general communion song.
The text is here. You can hear it at his Myspace page, which will give you an idea how the cantors sing different lines for the verse. You need the full music version for that.
My backing is based on the simpler guitar music and has just the one vocal line and is consequently less interesting but more feasible for the assembly.
To commence the songs from “Table Songs”, this is a gentle communion song based on the Emmaus pericope (Luke 24:13-35) written by David Haas. This is a very engaging tune, but the verses need a cantor.
The text is here. You can listen to the original on David Haas’s MySpace page.
This collection from GIA was published in 1991. I bought both the guitar version for me ($5.95) and the full music for pianists ($19.95 + postage from the US). These collections are very cheap and can be purchased at GIA.
After doing so many P&W songs it will be good to do songs designed for liturgy. I’m making backings so I can get a feel for the songs and learn them.
I have already blogged Table Song, Now We Remain, and Song of the Body of Christ from this collection.
GIA do not put up the texts of their songs on the net, unlike OCP, so when I can’t find the lyrics elsewhere I won’t be typing them out.
Entrance: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20
Psalm 65 (O’Brien)
The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest.
Gifts: Our Supper Invitation (Bates) AOV 1/185
Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten)
Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Thanksgiving: God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen) AOV 1/56
Recessional: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57
This is a rock song that is certainly in the P&W genre but has potential for liturgical use, in that is singable and emphasises that “we” are coming together. It could easily have been in the gathering song section. The bridge allows everyone to catch their breath before plunging back into the singalong chorus.
It was either written by Steve Angrisano with a little help from his friends or was written by a committee – lyrics by Steve Angrisano, Tom Tomaszek and Christi Smith with the music by Steve Angrisano and Pat Smith.
The text is at spiritandsong where it can be purchased for download. There is a snippet at OCP that shows his funk stylings.
My backing is more straight rock than funk and has some fun with guitar solos as written for a change.
I’m nearing the end of the Prayer and Praise songs in Spirit & Song Vol 1 and if I skip one it means I’ve already blogged it.
This one is words by Mike Nelson and music by Mike Nelson and Anthony Perna. It is singable by an assembly for a change, but each verse has a different tune and the the third is completely different to the others so is best regarded as a bridge.
You can hear a version here.
Refrain
With all I am I come with humble heart,
I come with soul rejoicing to do your will.
With all I am, all I can be, all I offer I offer for you.
Verse 1
Teach me your ways, O Lord, and send me forth
with your word on my lips and in my heart.
Verse 2
Let your compassion live within me,
so that I may give all as you give to me.
Verse 3
In all creation is your presence.
Help me to see you in all I serve.
© Michael P. Nelson and Michael A Perna 1997.
This is an old Andraé Crouch song that I remember from the 70s. I suppose it works as a personal testimony but I doubt it works in any other way. The cynic in me thinks that I’m sure he did have lots of troubles and he did learn to depend on the Lord but that’s his situation and observing the amount of trauma some people have in their lives you have to wonder how much learning some people are called upon to do.
The text is here and the sheet music is available through various sites including musicnotes.
I’m not sure I understand this song by Tom Conroy. Why are the waters beneath us?
There is a well for those who are thirsting,
for those who are desp’rate, the broken and poor.
Where those who drink the waters beneath them;
they shall live always and thirst no more.
There is a well, unknown to the mighty
but close to the many with nothing in store.
Where those who drink the waters beneath them;
they shall live always and thirst no more.
There is a well for those who are restless,
longing for mercy, creation restored.
Where those who drink the waters beneath them;
they shall live always and thirst no more.
© TEAM Publications 1993.
It is an echo song needing two groups to sing it and comes with a Spanish version. It can be purchased for download at OCP. You can listen to it at Conroy’s My Space page.
This is another from Chris’s parish, this time by Dan Schutte. I don’t recall ever doing this song but my memory isn’t so good these days.
The text is at spiritandsong and the song can be purchased for download at OCP.
Jonathan at Cantus Mundi helpfully aggregates some Youtube versions including the original.
You can listen to this parish sing the song and here is yet another version:
