How Can I Keep from Singing

$30.00

For SATB choir, Soprano solo and Piano Accompaniment
Difficulty Intermediate - Performance Time: 5:02
Text: Anna Bartlett Warner or Pauline T, with third verse lyrics added by Pete Seeger
Tune: Robert Lowry
Description: Traditional melody with lush harmonization, dramatic modulation and soloist showcase.
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Lyrics Author uncertain: Anna Bartlett Warner or Pauline T, with third verse lyrics added by Pete Seeger

How Can I Keep from Singing

My life flows on in endless song:

Above earth's lamentation,

I hear the sweet, tho' far-off hymn

That hails a new creation.

Through all the tumult and the strife

I hear the music ringing;

It finds an echo in my soul--

How can I keep from singing?

What though the tempest loudly roars,

I hear the truth, it liveth.

What though the darkness round me close,

Songs in the night it giveth.

No storm can shake my inmost calm

While to that rock I'm clinging.

Since love is lord of Heaven and earth

How can I keep from singing?

When tyrants tremble, sick with fear,

And hear their death-knell ringing,

When friends rejoice both far and near,

How can I keep from singing?

In prison cell and dungeon vile,

Our thoughts to them go winging;

When friends by shame are undefiled,

How can I keep from singing?

Tune by Robert Lowry