It was written by South African folk musician and lay Franciscan, Sebastian Temple, and was included on the recording "Sing People of God" released by Franciscian Communications in the USA in 1967 (ref).
It was included in the Nigerian Catholic Hymn Book, but has not been located in any other hymn books.
No sources of sheet music have been found, The set of guitar chords provided below are one person's interpretation, but seem likely given the tune in the video. They suggest that the song is in the key of Em.
The song has three verses - with a lot of repeated phrases inside each verse. A rough outline is:
No sources of sheet music have been found, The set of guitar chords provided below are one person's interpretation, but seem likely given the tune in the video. They suggest that the song is in the key of Em.
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Examples
Choir with classical guitar - original recording?
Choir with guitars, recorded live in a church service:
Instrumental - synthesizer, with sheet music on-screen:
Lyrics
The lyrics are copyright so cannot be reproduced here. But they are currently available on this website.The song has three verses - with a lot of repeated phrases inside each verse. A rough outline is:
1 We are one in Jesus, all of us are one ...
2 All of us are brothers, brothers of the Lord ...
3 Jesus is our brother, Christ and we are one ...
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