Lo Gentle Father

Helen Ezell

Key:: Bb Major
Vocal Range:: Low
Pitch Range:: Bb4 - D5

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Key:: Db Major
Vocal Range:: High
Pitch Range:: Db4 - F5

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Sample

Composer:: Helen Ezell
Lyricist:: Harol Vinal
Publisher:: SLVivace
Instrumentation:: Keyboard/Vocal
Key:: Bb Major; Db Major
Vocal Range:: High; Low
Vocal Pitch Range:: Bb4 - D5; Db4 - F5
MP3 Duration:: 03:34

Traditional music. Fairly easy. Effective alternation of major and minor in a paraphrase of the parable of the Ninety and Nine. Hauntingly beautiful opening and closing; a joyful middle section. Words by Harol Vinal from the Christian Science Sentinel. For Keyboard/Vocal. Study track available in high key.

Lyrics

Lo, Gentle Father

Words: Harold Vinal
Music: Helen Ingle Ezell

Who was the sheep that wandered wild
In woodlands, dubious and cold,
Who left the meadows, green and mild, who left the starry fold,
To wander ‘neath an alien sky?
Lo, gentle Father, Lo, gentle Father, gentle Father, it was I.

The kindly shepherd left His flock, the ninety and nine,
To gather me back to graze by field and rock,
Led me through foulest weather,
So that I did not fall or die.
Lo, gentle Father, it was I.

I, the redeemed, the lost, the found,
He called me by my rightful name,
And so I walked upon good ground,
Who was the wayward and I came,
The arrogant, the proud, the vain,
Into the waiting fold again.

Who was the sheep that wandered wild
In woodlands, dubious and cold,
Who left the meadows green and mild, Who left the starry fold,
To wander ‘neath an alien sky?
Lo, gentle Father, Lo, gentle Father, gentle Father, it was I.