Description
Enya – How Can I Keep From Singing?
Label: WEA, WEA
Catalog#: 9031-76092-7, YZ635
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: uk
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style:Ambient
Tracklist
A How Can I Keep From Singing? 4:22
Engineer – Gregg Jackman
B Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) 3:44
Engineer – Nicky Ryan
Producer – Nicky Ryan
“How Can I Keep From Singing?” (also known by its incipit “My Life Flows On in Endless Song“) is a Christian hymn with music written by American Baptist minister Robert Wadsworth Lowry. The song is frequently, though erroneously, cited as a traditional Quaker or Shaker hymn. The original composition has now entered into the public domain, and appears in several hymnals and song collections, both in its original form and with a revised text. Though it is not, in fact, a Quaker hymn, twentieth-century Quakers adopted it as their own and use it widely today.
Above earth´s lamentations,
I hear the real, though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.
I hear its music ringing,
It sounds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?
I hear the truth, it liveth.
And though the darkness ’round me close,
Songs in the night it giveth.
While to that rock I´m clinging.
Since love is lord of heaven and earth
How can I keep from singing?
And hear their death knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and near
How can I keep from singing?
Our thoughts to them are winging,
When friends by shame are undefiled
How can I keep from singing?
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