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Whither Must I Wander?

from This Second by First Person SINGular

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Lyrics by Robert Louis Stevenson. Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1902 on Songs of Travel. Arranged by First Person SINGular.

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(R. Vaughan Williams, R. Louis Stevenson)
Home no more home to me, whither must I wander?
Hunger my driver, I go where I must.
Cold blows the winter wind over hill and heather;
Thick drives the rain and my roof is in the dust.
Lov’d off wise men was the shade of my roof-tree,
The true word of welcome was spoken in the door;
Dear days of old.. with the faces in the firelight;
Kind folks of old, you come again no more.

Home was home then, my dear, full of kindly faces,
Home was home then, my dear, happy for the child.
Fire and the windows bright glitter’d on the moorland;
Song, tuneful song, built a palace in the wild.

Now when day dawns on the brow of the moorland,
Lone stands the house and the chimney-stone is cold.
Lone let it stand now the friends are all departed,
The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place of old.

Spring shall come, come again, calling up the moor-fowl,
Spring shall bring the sun and rain, bring the bees and flowers;
Red shall the heather bloom over hill and valley,
Soft flow the stream through the even flowing hours.
Fair shine the day shine as it shone on my childhood;
Fair shine the day on the house with open door.
Birds come and cry there and twitter in the chimney
But I go forever and come again no more.

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from This Second, released March 1, 2016
Richelle W. helped out a ton on drums. Thanks! Joy B. played viola. Thanks!

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First Person SINGular Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Studied languages. Likes to sing. Is one person. First Person SINGular - Amanda - started toying with the accordion in 2007 and keeps adding more and more instruments to her collection. Since age 14 she has played scheissy guitar but never had luck with songwriting this way. Songwriting came much more easily and successfully once she began working with the right instruments. ... more

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