If Christ Had Been Born in Another Time - Matthew Orlovich
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- If Christ Had Been Born in Another Time
Music by Matthew Orlovich
Text by Pat Edwards
If Christ had been born in another time
in a town of a different name,
If Christ had been born under southern skies
would the story have been the same?
Would Mary and Joseph have travelled the road
Dusty and hot and tired
brushing the flies from red-rimmed eyes
longing to end the ride?
Would there have been no room in the pub?
Would they have been turned away,
while drovers and stockmen jostled the bar
toasting the end of the day?
Would the Southern Cross have lit up the sky
marking the rough bush track?
Would Kings have ridden in from the west
and would they all have been black?
What would have been the gifts they brought
for the Child with the light round His head?
Perfume and oil from a eucalypt tree?
Gold from a river's bed?
Would cicada and kookaburra have sung
while angels on high looked down
if Christ had been born in another time
in a little outback town?
Brisbane Chamber Choir, conducted by Kathryn Morton in a live performance at St John's Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane on 5 August 2012
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I sang this last Christmas at the Nine Lessons and Carols at the cathedral in Lydiard St Ballarat. With the Cathedral choir. It took.s.bot of.work.but l got there!❤
Mattthew Orlovich and I went to school together, even the same music class for Year 8. He was laps ahead of me, could play by ear, and was down for the Inter School Christian Fellowship along with Stephen Tuck who became Reverend and Pastor of the Kogarah-Carlton Baptist Church. Clarinet and Piano / Keyboards he definitely played and just can't remember how much on the stringed instruments.
That’s very cool, what school did you guys go to if you don’t mind me asking
Very energetic and Australian-sounding.
Our group Acappllago, sang this also. It's a wonderful piece!