HISTRIONICA

Here's a new Shape-Note tune from The Western Harmony. Download an mp3 here. Click on the podcast player above to hear it. Print out the score & sing it at your next camp meeting! Y'all come back for more, there's still plenty to come. Lyrics:

HISTRIONICA

We only live for sev'nty human years,
Quite too short for our task,
And if to eighty we take care, we'd rather groan than wear
This rotting mask.
You can live forever,
If you've got the time!

The crickets talking back & forth in rhyme,
Will be here, always there,
Harlequin cabbage bugs will munch this fecund earth for lunch,
This spinning sphere.
You can live forever,
If you've got the time!

Yes, I have felt depressed & lost in sin,
But Jesus took me in,
If I can rearrange my hours to pray & grow God's flowers,
Seasons begin.
You can live forever,
If you've got the time!

There will be time to plant and time to reap,
To murder & create,
There will be time to rend & sew & climb the stairway to
Th'eternal gate.
You can live forever,
If you've got the time!

When we have been here for ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
Then we will have no fewer days to sing God's praise then when
We first begun.
You can live forever,
If you've got the time!