Chords for Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us With Your Love Hymn of the Week

[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Welcome to this week's hymn of the week.
This week we have ELW 708, Yezu, Yezu, fill us
with your love.
We see that the text was constructed by Tom Colvin and he wrote it in 1963 [N] and
it's based on John 13, chapter 13, verses 2 to 17, where the disciples' feet are being
washed by Jesus.
And what's interesting _ about this text is that it was written in Cherponi,
which we see the tune name here is Cherponi, I believe that's the right way of saying it,
in northern Ghana.
And three-month-old Christians were training to be local church volunteers
in the community and they were going to do that in addition to sharing the gospel.
So
this is a quote by Tom Colvin.
He says, theirs was the real Christian service which inspired
the words.
So that's how he came up with these words as he was seeing them training for this
extra _ service that they would do in the community and some of it agricultural.
_ So we already
mentioned that the tune was named for the place where they were gathering as the local Christians,
Cherponi in Ghana.
And it was initially published by the Iona community and it was called Free to
Serve, Hymns from Africa, and that was in 1968.
So we have a folk tune that's _ a pretty old tune
actually when we look in _ today's, if we're looking at today's analysis of how quickly songs are
rising and are being written.
But a great tune and what makes it easy to sing is its sequences.
So we have in the verses [Bbm] and _ we have the [Bb] same pattern starting on a different note, also known
as a sequence, and then here [Cm] as well.
_ [Bbm] _ [G] So those sequences I think they may be a coincidence but
I think it ties in with the idea of service because we are trying to emulate Jesus Christ
as Christians or try to live like Jesus or want to be more like Jesus.
And so those [N] sequences in
very many ways remind us of that.
So this I plan to play this very simply.
I'm going to use mutation
stops on [F] the organ, create a synthetic clarinet since there's not a real clarinet on this instrument,
[Bb] but it gives an idea of that.
_ [Gb]
So here is Yezu, Yezu, fill us with your love. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [Db] _ [A] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[E] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ Show us how to serve the neighbors [Bb] we [C] love.
[F] _ _ _ Kneels at the feet [Gm] of his friends, _ [C] silently washes their [F]
feet.
[Dm] Master [Bb] who acts as [C] a slave [F] to the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ rapturous.
_ _ Fill us [C] with your love, show us [F] how to serve the neighbors we love.
_ _ _ Neighbors are wealthy [Gm] and poor, [C] buried in color and [F] race.
[Dm] Neighbors [Bb] are nearby and [C] far [F]
away. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Fill us [C] with your love, show us how to [F] serve the neighbors [Bb] we [C] love.
[F] _
_ These are the ones we [Gm] will serve, [C] these are the ones we will [F] love.
[Dm] All these are neighbors [C] to _ [F] us and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
you.
_ Fill us with [C] your love, show [F] us how to serve the neighbors we [C] have.
[F] _ _ _
Kneel [Eb] at the feet of [Gm] our _ friends, [C] silently washing their [F] feet.
[Dm] This is the [Bb] way we [D] will be.
_ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Fill us with [C] your love, show us [F] how to serve the neighbors [C] we love.
[F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ So [G] it does have that light sound which I wanted to [Bb] bring out and that's why I've made up my own accompaniment for it.
I think it's best instead of playing what's [G] in the book and also I'm creating a more broken chord format in the left hand when the melody is being sold out.
So thank you very much for listening to Hymn of the Week.
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _