Climate songs

Dare to love again Words: Jo Wilmot and Leigh Newton Creative Commons BY 4.0 2024Music: Traditional Sheet music jpg Capo 3 ….Am……..F….. C1. Dare to love again,Am……… G …..CDare to love again,Am…….C…….G….FLove is the only revenge,Am……..G….AmDare to love again. ————————— We’d be alright Adapted from traditional Leigh Newton CC BY 4.0 2024 Sheet music ………………Dm1. […]

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There in the garden

Piano music Lyrics Words: Leigh Newton © 2019Melody: Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, 2nd Movement 1.There in the garden,No hope of pardon,Christ is arrested,Taken away.Sentence is spoken,Pilate has broken,Washes his hands,The cross now awaits.Christ now defeated,Numbers depleted,Follow’rs in hiding,No more debate. 2.Hand in the cash drawer,Side-stepping love’s law,Deeply involved inWhat’s yet to come.Where lies redemption?Is there exemption?Cold,

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If you love me

If you love me(The mercy road) – John 14:15-17 David Froemming & Leigh Newton © 2021 1.If you love me, follow in my footsteps.If you love me, follow in my way.For God will send the Spirit of truth;And I will be revealed in you.This is how we walk on the mercy road. If you love

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Every single stone

A meditation on the denial of Jesus (Mark 14:66-72). Written for St Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Adelaide Good Friday 2021. Every single stone (Mark 14:66-72) Words and Music: Leigh Newton © 2021 Every single stone’s a broken stone. Each sunset peak and gravel road, Each jeweled ring and silver lode, Every single rock is etched in grey.  2. Peter’s

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Out of the whirlwind

Leigh Newton & David Froemming © 2020 A Black Lives Matter song, seeking justice for people of colour, especially in the USA. Out of the WhirlwindJob 38:1 Words and Music: David Froemming & Leigh Newton © 2020 ChorusI can’t breatheI can’t breatheI can’t breathe He put his knee right down and hard on the neck,and killed the

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