How Can I Keep From Singing?
For SATB choir, soloists, and piano. Sometimes we run across a piece that is just enchanting and this is one of those. A different tune than the one you know, with hints of Aaron Copland, apple trees and newly mown meadows. If you have a piano in your sanctuary, don't miss this one!
My life flows on, in endless song:
Above earth's lamentation,
I catch the sweet, tho' far off hymn
That hails a new creation.
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?
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?
No storm can shake my inmost calm,
While to that rock I'm clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
a fountain ever springing!
All things are mine since I am his!
How can I keep from singing?
No storm can shake my inmost calm,
While to that rock I'm clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?