Listen, Lord, and Answer Me Based on Psalm 86:1 3; Psalm 130:1 6 Bernadette arrell Keyboard (q = ca 79) 4 3 4 3 4 3 sus4 # % % RERAN: 1st time: Cantor, All repeat; thereafter: All Lis - ten, Lord, and E b /G an -swer me; save your ser - vant who trusts in you Lis - ten, Lord, and 6 E b ma7 Cm6 an-swer me; save your ser - vant who B b / rit last time E b ma7 Cm6 rit last time m 1, inal # trusts in you 1, inal (1st time S) ine # n (1st time S) ine n 2-5 # C trusts in you 4 2-5 # n to Verses to Verses 1980, 2012, Bernadette arrell Published by OCP, 5536 NE Hassalo, Portland, OR 97213 All rights reserved Edition 30108031 2
Listen, Lord, and Answer Me (Keyboard/Vocal), cont (2) VERSES 1-3: Cantor 1 2 3 1 2 3 Out of the depths f you, O Lord, My soul will wait should cry to mark on - ly m/ you, Lord; our guilt, for you; Lord, who count Eb ma7 hear my voice would sur - vive on your word, sus4 Oh, let your ears at - tend to my voice; Lord, hear my voice On - ly with you is for - give - ness; this we re - vere keep-ing my watch till the day breaks, count - ing on dawn m/ Eb ma7 sus4 VERSE 4: Cantor ( ) ( 4 ) call on you Bb 4 call on you 6/ Bb n all day long; m7 have # # mer-cy, Lord, have mer - cy all day long; have mer - cy on me, O Eb ma7 Cm7 m m Lord Gsus4 n S S S al fine ΠS al fine 3
Listen, Lord, and Answer Me (Guitar/Vocal) Based on Psalm 86:1 3; Psalm 130:1 6 Bernadette arrell (q = ca 79) Capo 3: 4 3 (Cma7) (Am6) E b ma7 Cm6 ser - vant who (G/B) B b / & bb save your VERSES 1-3: Cantor & bb 1 Out 2 f 3 My of you, soul & bb 1 Oh, let 2 On - ly 3 keep - ing VERSE 4: Cantor (G) B b & bb ( ) ( 4 ) (G) B b (Cma7) (Am6) E b ma7 Cm6 rit last time (Bsus4) sus4 Ó Œ (Bm) m trusts in ser - vant who the depths O Lord, will wait your ears with you my watch call on you (Em6/B) 6/ & bb should at - () (Bm/) m/ you cry to mark on - ly (Bm/) m/ % RERAN: 1st time: Cantor, All repeat; thereafter: All (C/E) () (6) Eb /G 6 1, inal Lis - ten, Lord, # trusts in you you, Lord; our guilt, for you; tend is till to my voice; for - give - ness; the day breaks, all day long; () (Bm7) m7 and Lis - ten, Lord, (1st time S) ine 2-5 (Cma7) E b ma7 (A) C an-swer me; and () # save your an - swer me; trusts in you 4 Lord, who count (Cma7) E b ma7 Lord, this count - have mer - cy, Lord, have (Cma7) (Am7) (Bm) E b ma7 Cm7 m (Bsus4) sus4 hear my voice would sur - vive on your word, (Bsus4) sus4 hear my voice we re - vere ing on dawn (Bm) m to Verses S mer - cy (Esus4) Gsus4 S al fine Œ 4 call on you all day long; have mer - cy on me, O Lord 1980, 2012, Bernadette arrell Published by OCP, 5536 NE Hassalo, Portland, OR 97213 All rights reserved 4
SOLO NSTRUMENT in C Listen, Lord, and Answer Me Bernadette arrell (q = ca 79) 2 RERAN: Cantor; All repeat 8 4 3 VERSE 1 8 RERAN 8 VERSES 2, 3 RERAN VERSE 4 & bb RERAN & bb Music 2010, Bernadette arrell Published by OCP, 5536 NE Hassalo, Portland, OR 97213 All rights reserved or use with the songbook Love Goes On, edition 30108001 rit
Composer Notes Listen, Lord, and Answer Me My first encounter of Psalm 130 has remained with me all my life On an ordinary school day found myself at the funeral of a young classmate had ust oined the school after moving from another town The small church was packed, with hardly enough room to breathe But when the psalm began was transfixed Pere Gelineau s setting was new and had never heard the words before irst the haunting refrain place all my trust in you, my God; all my hope is in your saving word Then the verses, Out of the depths cry to you, O Lord was confronted by the despair expressed in the psalm, and pondered the meaning The emotion was unfamiliar to me then, but came to understand it a couple of years later when my brother was killed in a road accident Without realizing, had found a vocabulary in the psalms Walter Brueggemann describes Psalm 130 as a text of disorientation, one that plays a vital role in the development of an informed, honest faith ietrich Bonhoeffer refers to the Psalter as the great school of prayer He writes: the child learns to speak because the parent speaks to the child The child learns the language of the parent So we learn to speak because God has spoken and speaks to us n the language of the ather in heaven, God s children learn to speak with God Repeating God s own words, we begin to pray to God n Life Together, Bonhoeffer writes: A psalm that makes us falter and horrifies us, is a hint to us that someone else is praying, not we; that the One who is here protesting his innocence, who is invoking God s udgment, who has come to such infinite depths of suffering, is none other than esus Christ himself He it is who is praying here, and not only here but in the whole psalter He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time esus Christ prays the Psalter through his congregation 6
Assembly Edition Listen, Lord, and Answer Me Refrain: 1st time: Cantor, All repeat; thereafter: All & bb 4 3 Lis - ten, Lord, and an-swer me; save your ser - vant who & bb & bb trusts in save your you Verses: Cantor 1 Out of the depths cry to you, Lord; Lord, hear my voice Oh, let your ears attend to my voice; Lord, hear my voice 2 f you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, who would survive Only with you is forgiveness; this we revere Lis - ten, Lord, and an - swer me; ser - vant who Text: Based on Psalm 86:1 3; Psalm 130:1 6 Text and music 1980, 2012, Bernadette arrell Published by OCP, 5536 NE Hassalo, Portland, OR 97213 All rights reserved # trusts in you 3 My soul will wait only for you; count on your word, keeping my watch till the day breaks, counting on dawn 4 call on you all day long; have mercy, Lord, have mercy call on you all day long; have mercy on me, O Lord Bernadette arrell or reprint permissions, please visit OneLicensenet or contact us at 1-800-663-1501 7