Continuing with Father Paul Gurr’s record, Come As You Are, he sang Bruce Dynan’s, “Work of the Carpenter”.
I’m rather more interested in these songs than the singer, but unfortunatey the this song’s sheet music is out of print, and I found it second hand. I can’t find it on OneLicence either, and I suspect it just failed to find a place in liturgical use. You could see it as an entrance, but it may have too challenging a range and was feted to be a for a soloist like the good Father. Some of the lyrics slip in Yoda syntax too, for example, “special each one”.
Chorus
We are work of the carpenter, the fruit of his vineyard, the earth on his hands.
And the work of the carpenter, builds a strong table, offers a wine.
Stay for a while with the work of the carpenter.
1 Wood of the earth, sturdy and true,
Trusting the hand of it’s sharper.
And we know potter will mould, constant his hand.
Special each one he’s creating. Making us…
Chorus
2 Worker will prune, vine after vine,
Each with a season to grow and to love. For we are…
Chorus
3 We of the earth, broken and torn,
Breaking the bread of the friend of ours. All of us…
Chorus
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