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Vermillion
02:28
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Our cheerful voices let us raise
And sing a parting song
My friends I'm with you here today
But cannot tarry long
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Syria
01:49
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Hungry and faint and poor
O behold us, Lord, again
Assembled at thy mercy's door
Thy bounty for to gain
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Glencolmcille
02:59
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I dwell in darkness and unseen
My heart is desolate within
My thoughts in musing silence trace
The ancient wonders of thy grace
For thee I thirst, I pray, I mourn
When will thy smiling face return?
Shall all my joys on Earth remove,
and God forever hide his love?
In thee I trust, to thee I sigh
And lift my heavy soul on high
For thee sit waiting all the day
and wear the tiresome hours away
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I Cross Til I Am Weary
03:02
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I cross 'til I am weary a mountain in my mind
More mountains, yes, more mountains
And then a desert find
I have born a thousand burdens, I guard the night, I praise the day
But every seed that I have planted, the wind has blown away
And when the sea stops raging, I raise my eyes, I ask for grace.
But every step that I have taken, the waves they do erase.
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My Heart Will Bow
03:53
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And then my heart will bow, when dew is dropping sleep
Until God burn time before the unlaboring stars and you
And then my soul shall rest while darkness round me mourns
And even time shall fade before the unlaboring stars and you
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Heartland
01:38
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The voice of my beloved sounds over the rocks and rising grounds
O'er hills of guilt and seas of grief, he leaps, he flies to my relief
The bleak midwinter now is gone. The mists are fled and spring comes on.
The sacred turtle dove we hear proclaim the new, the joyful year
The immortal vine of heavenly root blossoms and buds and gives her fruit
Lo, we are come to taste the wine, our souls rejoice and bless the vine.
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Now is the time of love, now the bells shall ring
The lark, the land, the turtle dove lift every voice and sing.
Joy will bring me to your arms. I'll fly on the wings of grace. I'll fly on grace
This love that's lodged within my heart I never shall erase.
This seed we plant in tender earth and tend it in the morn.
We leap, we sing, we flower forth: our child now is born!
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Holman
01:43
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Death cannot make our souls afraid if God be with us there.
We shall walk through her darkest shade and never yield to fear.
I could renounce my all, my soul, of every fear be rid.
And run if I were called to go and die as Moses did.
When I shall climb to Pisgah's top and view the promised land
Grief and pain and our tears shall stop as in God's palm we stand.
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Aleppo
01:50
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Why have you abandoned us here on the shore,
While storm clouds gather and roar?
To the world we are objects of anger and wrath,
To the Lord beloved no more.
Our homes were destroyed like a castle of sand,
So with thousands and thousands we flee.
Our lives we place in thy merciful hand
To face darkness and storms on the sea.
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America
03:02
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Bamidon
02:02
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Come my beloved, haste away. Cut short the hours of thy delay.
Fly like a youthful hart or roe, over the fields where spices grow.
Stronger than death thy love is known, which floods of wrath could never drown.
Earth and hell in vain combine to quench a fire so much divine.
O let thy name engraven stand, both on my heart and on my hand
Seal me upon thine arm and wear that pledge of love forever there.
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Like stars whose dust has shaped our bones, our every light shall fly
No more shall we indulge our fears, our songs shall mount the sky.
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Ten Thousand Charms
02:26
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Brendan Taaffe Brattleboro, Vermont
Two Strands:
On banjo and mbira, Brendan Taaffe pushes the boundaries of old-time music with
inventive arrangements and soulful playing. See: Heap of Horseshoes, Can’t Hold The Wheel, Fly Down You Little Bird
With The Bright Wings Chorus, soak in the lush harmonies of Brendan’s original choral arrangements.
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