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And I Can Sing

Classical/Vocal music • 2021 • Lyricist: James Weldon Johnson • Alternative Title: The Gift to Sing
 
     
 

And I Can Sing

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Instrumentation
Mixed choir
Scored for
Choir
Type of score
Vocal score
Key
D major
Publisher
Margaret Simmonds
Language
English
Difficulty
Advanced
Duration
3'10
My setting for unaccompanied SATB choir of the work "The Gift to Sing" by American poet James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938).

Sometimes the mist overhangs my path,
And blackening clouds about me cling;
But, oh, I have a magic way
To turn the gloom to cheerful day—
I softly sing.

And if the way grows darker still,
Shadowed by Sorrow’s somber wing,
With glad defiance in my throat,
I pierce the darkness with a note,
And sing, and sing.

I brood not over the broken past,
Nor dread whatever time may bring;
No nights are dark, no days are long,
While in my heart there swells a song,
And I can sing.
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