Who Is My Mother? AA158

Shirley Murray has taken this difficult saying of Jesus and crafted a song of unity. It is from the collection Alleluia Aotearoa.

With the mother/brother rhyme a given, her words become an avalanche of outrageous rhymes: stigma/enigma; relate us/status, etc.

Read them all at Hope Publishing. Everyone wants to set Shirley and I suspect some used their own mother’s names as titles as a joke ie Who is my mother? Bronwen!

AA uses the setting by Ian Render, BRONWEN:

Hope Publishing give three settings:

JIATING by Lim Swee Hong:

HELEN by Jane Marshall:

… and KINDRED by Jack Schrader:

The latter is in more hymnals and appears to be the choice in the USA, based on You-Tube clips.

I think this is the same song freely arranged in a different genre.

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