Singing cheerily all day long (Alexander Van Alstyne)

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• (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78200:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 510 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Singing cheerily all day long
Composer: Alexander Van Alstyne
Lyricist: Fanny Crosby
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1870 Biglow & Main
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Original text and translations

English text

When pleasure crowns the festive scene,
Or beauty’s radiant eye serene,
Still brighter makes the playful beam
From joy its lustre bringing;
There music dwells, and wild and free
Rings out her peal of merry glee,
And tells how blest the world would be
If cares were lost in singing;
Who has not wond’ring paused to hear
Childhood repeat its artless song,
Singing, singing, singing, singing,
Singing cheerily all day long!

The brooklet singing murmurs by,
The mountain rills with joy reply,
The leaflet hears the zephyrs sigh
And wakes from dewy slumbers;
O’er shady grot and mossy plain
Still music breathes her dulcet strain,
While nature joins her glad refrain
And swells her purest numbers;
Gayly the bird in leafy nest
Blends with the breeze her artless song,
Singing, singing, singing, singing,
Singing cheerily all day long!

In rural cot or princely fall,
’Tis music lends a charm to all;
The same enchanting echoes fall
And lighten every sorrow;
Around the happy, social hearth,
Where love and friendship have their birth,
The simple lay of joyous mirth
Proclaims a bright tomorrow;
Sing till the heart beats high with joy,
Sing till the soul is full of song,
Singing, singing, singing, singing,
Singing cheerily all day long!