The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21554   Message #230387
Posted By: Joe Offer
19-May-00 - 03:58 AM
Thread Name: Funeral Tunes, songs that heal
Subject: Lyr Add: On Eagle's Wings^^
Yeah, "On Eagle's Wings" (click for MIDI) is a nice one for religious funerals. Seems like I've sung it at every Catholic funeral I've attended in the last 20 years, and at some non-Catholic funerals. Michael Crawford recorded it on an album with the same title - can't say I like his recording, but I like the song. But heck, it's one of the few of the newer Catholic hymns that have made it on a commercial recording.
-Joe Offer-
ON EAGLES' WINGS
(Michael Joncas)

You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord,
Who abide in His shadow for life,
Say to the Lord:"My refuge,
My rock in whom I trust!"
And he will raise you up on eagle's wings,
Bear you on the breath of dawn,
Make you to shine like the sun,
And hold you in the palm of His hand.
The snare of the fowler will never capture you,
And famine will bring you no fear:
Under His wings your refuge,
His faithfulness your shield.
And He will raise you up on eagle's wings,
Bear you on the breath of dawn,
Make you to shine like the sun,
And hold you in the palm of His hand.
You need not fear the terror of the night,
Nor the arrow that flies by day;
Though thousands fall about you,
Near you it shall not come.
And He will raise you up on eagle's wings,
Bear you on the breath of dawn,
Make you to shine like the sun,
And hold you in the palm of His hand.
For to His angels He's given a command
To guard you in all of your ways;
Upon their hands they will bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
And He will raise you up on eagle's wings,
Bear you on the breath of dawn,
Make you to shine like the sun,
And hold you in the palm of His hand.
And hold you, hold you in the palm of His hand.
Adaptation of Psalm 91. ©1979, New Dawn Music