Easter Song
Listen
I play this every Easter just because. This year it is the Quarantine Spring and I thought I'd do a quick rendition and put it on Facebook. Fortunately thought better of that idea. Featuring the birds.
Lore
Here's the original 1974 recording by 2nd Chapter of Acts. The author Annie Herring was one of three siblings in 2CoA.
Jo Ann introduced me to the better-known Keith Green cover of this song, as well as recordings by John Michael Talbot, Phil Keaggy (more later..), and others I now think of affectionately as "Jesus freak music". Not a putdown - hey, they were freaks who were into Jesus. All is fair! In this case Annie Herring knocked one out of the park.
Michael Omartian wrote the piano part according to Wikipedia.
Here is a big old over-the-top born-again choir version from California Baptist College. Lordy.