Donkey-riding Jesus (John Earwaker)
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- Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2007-12-21). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 54 kB Copyright: Personal
General Information
Title: Donkey-Riding Jesus
Composer: John Earwaker
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: S.SATB
; see description
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
First published: 1992
Description: For all-age worship: children's choir, adult choir SATB, and congregation.
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Original text and translations
English text
Donkey-riding Jesus is coming to town
Hooray, Halleluia
Blowing your own trumpet makes walls tumble down
Hooray, Halleluia
Jesus riding onwards, delighting the crowd
Hooray, Halleluia
People waving branches and shouting out loud:
Hooray, Halleluia
People sing his praises as if he were king.
Hooray, Halleluia
Can’t you hear the stones give an echoing ring?
Hooray, Halleluia
Ev’ryone is clapping, a song in their heart
Hooray, Halleluia
Didn’t Jesus promise that God’s reign would start?
Hooray, Halleluia
Jesus looks like trouble, the authorities frown
Hooray, Halleluia
Somehow they will have to damp it all down!
Hooray, Halleluia
Ah, what is going to happen? Will Jesus die?
Hooray, Halleluia
Has be guessed what’s coming, the person God sends?
Hooray, Halleluia
Ride on in majesty, in lowly pomp ride on to die.
Hooray, Halleluia
While the people praise him is he waving goodbye?
Hooray, Halleluia
Risking his own life to make enemies friends
Hooray, Halleluia
O Christ thy triumphs now begin
Hooray, Halleluia
O’er captive death and conquer’d sin.
Hooray, Halleluia
What the people shouted was more than they knew:
Hooray, Halleluia
Calling him a king then was perfectly true.
Hooray, Halleluia
Bow thy meek head to mortal pain,
Then take, O God, thy power and reign!