The Old Churchyard

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  • Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
  • Seattle-based vocal ensemble, Radiance, sings an arrangement of "The Old Churchyard" by Lauren Kastanas.
    Performed by Radiance
    Lauren Kastanas, soloist
    www.radiance.org/
    / radiancechoir
    Directed by Markdavin Obenza
    Videography: Willimark Obenza
    ***
    Come, come with me to the old churchyard
    I so well know those paths 'neath the soft green sward
    Friends slumber in there that we want to regard
    We will trace out their names in the old churchyard
    Mourn not for them for their trials are o'er
    Why weep for those who will weep no more?
    For sweet is their sleep, though cold and hard
    Their pillows may be in the old churchyard
    I know that it's vain when our friends depart
    To breathe kind words to a broken heart
    And I know that the joy of life is marred
    When we follow lost friends to the old churchyard
    But were I at rest 'neath yonder tree
    Why would you weep, my friends, for me?
    I'm so weary, so wayworn, why would you retard
    The peace I seek in the old churchyard?
    Why weep for me for I'm anxious to go
    To that haven of rest where no tears ever flow
    And I fear none my fate when it's time to depart
    I will set with the sun in the old churchyard
    I rest in the hope that one bright day
    Sunshine will burst through these prisons of clay
    The trumpets will sound in the hills near and far
    Will wake up the dead in the old churchyard
    The trumpets will sound in the hills near and far
    Will wake up the dead in the old churchyard

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