Beneath a dark familiar sky - Weed, Thurlow

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"First Sunday after Christmas, Year A"

◈ Genre → Hymns

♯ Key A- major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – E-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 17

Texture mixed texture

Parts 2

Instruments Organ

Pages 1

CPDL # 33620

Editor Thurlow Weed

Posted 2014-12-09

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

MusicXML Part

G2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

1. Beneath a dark familiar sky the silent air was stirred; a sudden rush like many wings announced a startling word: a word more distant than the stars above the stony ground, and closer than the beating hearts that marked the sudden sound. 2. The shepherds rose to face the sky, then turned and fell face down; this night it seemed that life itself was pressing toward the ground to take, to hold, to celebrate the substance of the earth, and gather all creation in a reconciling birth. 3. The stars aligned to point a path, the shepherds rose and ran, swept up in an epiphany they longed to understand. This longing also gathers us to rise and go with them, and find our way among the ways that meet in Bethlehem. From ''Songs for the Cycle'' ©2004 by Michael Hudson. Church Publishing Incorporated. All rights reserved. Used by permission.