Song for hermits

By tradition,  the Magnificat is sung at Vespers. So here is a version, written from the Mobile Chapel of St Scholastica that you might like to try. It refers to a hermit that lived by Warkworth castle on the river Coquet and in my version that hermit is female.

Once a lone hermit lived by the Coquet,
Right in the shade by the bank you see,
And she watched and prayed and sang her magnificat
God gets bigger and bigger in me

Chorus
God gets bigger
God gets bigger
God gets bigger and bigger in me.
And she watched and prayed and sang her magnificat
God gets bigger and bigger in me.

Oh how my spirit rejoices in God on high
Just like the mother of God you see,
As I watch and pray and sing my magnificat
God gets bigger and bigger in me.

Down go the rich and up come the humble:
God always sides with the poor you see,
And I watch and pray and sing this magnificat
God gets bigger and bigger in me.

JAL 19.07.2018, Warkworth and 19.08.2018, Roecliffe.

Tune is Waltzing Matilda