How Can I Keep From Singing lyrics translation: SEEGER PETE How Can I Keep From Singing song texte and letras SEEGER PETE How Can I Keep From Singing tab, paroles and testo SEEGER PETE How Can I Keep From Singing Karaoke and Music Video - none yet
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My life flows on in endless song
Above earth`s lamentation.
I hear the real, thought far off hymn
That hails the new creation
Above the tumult and the strife,
I hear the music ringing;
It sounds an echo in my soul
How can I keep from singing?
What through the tempest loudly roars,
I hear the truth, it liveth.
What through 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 are winging.
When friends by shame are undefiled,
How can I keep from singing?
Pete Seeger helped to make this song fairly well-known in the
folk-revival. He learned it from Doris Plenn, who had it from
her North Carolina family. It can be found in SING OUT, Vol 7,
No 1, 1957.