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