A New Year Opens
Arranger: Jim Bennett, b.1961.
Music: Traditional Scottish
Words: Erika Hewitt, b.1971
© Rev. Erika Hewitt
Sing Out Love expiration November 2029
A New Year Opens
*Accompanist, please download the primary score from Sing Out Love for your part.
Voice
Pno.
= 130
F
F
Gm7add4
Gm7add4
F/A
F/A
Bbadd2
Bbadd2
Fadd2
Fadd2
Gm7add4
Gm7add4
F/A
F/A
Bbadd2
Bbadd2
Fadd2
Fadd2
Gm7add4
Gm7add4
Am7
Am7
Bbadd2
Bbadd2
Fadd2
Fadd2
Gm7add2
Gm7add2
F/A
F/A
The
(Yet)
(A)
(Spirit,)
Gm7/C
year
keep
deep
new
be
my
er
year
F
hind
ea
pain
o
me:
ger
pens,
a
heart
ap
its
Gm7
book
soft
pears
blank
er
in
space
laid
and
some
a
Am
o
o
pag
thresh
pen,
pen
es:
old
with
to
They're
for
Gm7
sto
mem’
tear
all
ries
ries
stained
that
both
whose
and
seems
F
joy
bit
torn
pos
ful
ter
si
and
ness
where
ble
Gm7
hard
still
grief
in
to
bears
raked
the
be
a
my
Un
C7
hold.
sting.
heart.
known.
I
For
Not
May
in
we
Gm/C
vite
harms
on
meet
those
I
ly
the
F
tan
wield
er
Myst’
ed,
rors
ry
gled
may
and
and
Gm7
mem’
I
fail
all
ries
seek
ures
of
to
for
and
its
F
sur
give
strug
prom
face,
ness;
gles,
ise:
and
let
but
com
Gm7
cher
go
loss
pan
ish
of
ses
ions
those
re
that
who
F
long
sent
shook
choose
ment
not
ing
to
my
to
Gm7
to
which
world
jour
be
I
ney
re
still
a
a
C7
told:
cling.
part.
lone.
F
Here
Here
Here,
When
I
I
a
will
loved
strug
death
joy
well,
gled;
I
burst
here,
and
mourned;
forth?
made
here
here,
Where
brave
my
a
will
Am
choic
an
sad
grief
es;
ger
fare
rain
and
grew;
well;
down?
here’s
here’s
here’s
How
where
where
where
will
my
my
I’m
we
Bb
friends
lone
haunt
meet
helped
li
ed
each
my
ness
by
new
F/A
bro
turned
what
day
ken
to
might
that
ness
de
have
ar
Bb
F/A
F/Bb
mend.
spair.
been.
rives?
That
May
O
May
I
our
C
good
hum
Spir
lov
ness
bly
it:
ing
F
bless
sift
Hold
choic
es
through
me,
es
me,
those
re
be
Gm7
grate
so
store
come
ful
ber
me,
a
and
ing
and
bold
F/A
hope
sto
heal
cho
ful,
ries
me;
rus:
as
for
sus
a
Gm7
last
cour
tain
“yes”
age
me
to
year’s
that
with
the
F
pag
stirs
hope
form
me
as
es
to
a
ing
Gm7
come
growth
new
edge
to
and
year
of
their
re
be
our
To Coda
C7
end.
pair.
F
Bb
Spir
Yet
it,
F
gins.
Gm7
F/A
Bb/F
Bb/F
F/A
F/A
F/C
F/C
C7
C7
F
Bb
F
Bb
4.A
D.S. al Coda
F
F
lives.
F
Gm7add4
Gm7add4
F/A
F/A
Bbadd2
Bbadd2
Fadd2
Fadd2
Gm7add4
Gm7add4
F/A
F/A
Bbadd2
Bbadd2
Fadd2
Fadd2
Gm7add2
Gm7add2
F/A
F/A
Bb6
Bb6
ritard
Fadd2
Fadd2