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VOICESOFTHEVALLEY - ECHOES

 

 

A Million Dreams

Benj Pasek, Justin Noble Paul

I close my eyes and I can see
A world that's waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one's been before
But it feels like home

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I've lost my mind
I don't care, I don't care, if they call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design

'Cause every night, I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
Oh, a million dreams for the world we're gonna make

There's a house we can build
Every room inside is filled with things from far away
Special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile on a rainy day

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we've lost our minds
I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy
Run away to a world that we design

'Cause every night, I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
Oh, a million dreams for the world we're gonna make

However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me

You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you’ll bring me along

To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see

‘Cause every night, I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make

For the world we're gonna make

 

 

 

Llanfair

William Williams / Robert Williams

Gwyn a gwridog hawddgar iawn,
Yw fAnwylyd,
Doniaur nef sydd yn ddon llawn
Per aidd, hyfryd;
Daear faith, nac uchder nef,
Byth ni ffeindia
Arall tebyg iddo Ef,
Haleliwia.

Yn ddoi Hunan y maen llawn
Bob Trysorau
Dwyfol berffaith werth fawr iawn,
Am fy meiau
Gwir ddoethineb hedd a gras,
Gwerth fawr o ca.
Nerth i hollol garior, maes,
Haleliwia.

Dyma sylfaen gadarn gref,
Trwy fy mywyd,
Credu ae edrych arno Ef
Yw fy ngwyn fyd.
Ynddo bellach trwy bob pla
Y gobeithia;
Ac mewn rhyfel canu wna. Haleliwia.
Amen, Amen, Amen

 

 

And So It Goes

Billy Joel


In every heart there is a room
A sanctuary safe and strong
To heal the wounds from lovers past
Until a new one comes along

 

I spoke to you in cautious tones
You answered me with no pretence
And still I feel I said too much
My silence is my self-defence

 

And every time I've held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns
And so it goes, and so it goes
And so will you, soon, I suppose

 

But if my silence made you leave
Then that would be my worst mistake
So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break

 

And this is why my eyes are closed
It's just as well for all I've seen
And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

 

So I would choose to be with you
That's if the choice were mine to make
But you can make decisions too
And you can have this heart to break

 

And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

 

 

She

Charles Aznavour

She may be the face I can't forget.
A trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay.


She may be the song that summer sings.
May be the chill that autumn brings.
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day.

 

She may be the beauty or the beast.
May be the famine or the feast.
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell.

 

She may be the mirror of my dreams.
A smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem

Inside her shell.

 

She, who always seems so happy in a crowd.
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one's allowed to see them when they cry.


She may be the love that cannot hope to last

May come to me from shadows of the past.
That I remember till the day I die

 

She may be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough and rainy years.


Me I'll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is
She, she, she.

 

 

 

The Bandits’ Chorus

Verdi

Eviva! Beviam! Beviam!

Nel vino cerchiam almeno un piacer.

Eviva! Beviam! Beviam!

Nel vino cerchiam almeno un piacer!

Che resta al bandito, da tutti sfuggito, Se man-ca il bicchier?

Giuochiamo, ce l’oro e vano Tesoro, qual viene sen va.

Giuochiamo se la vita non fa piu gradita ridente belta,

Per boschie pendici abbiam soli amici moschetto e pugnal.

Quand’esce la not te nell’orride grotte neforman guan cial.

Allegri! Beviam! Beviam! Beviam! Beviam! Beviamo!

Allegri! Beviam! Beviam!

Allegri! Beviam! Beviam! Beviam!

Nel vino cerchiam, cerchiam, cerchiam, almeno un piacer!

Nel vin, nel vin, nel vino cerchiamo almeno un piacer!

Beviam! Beviam nel vino cerchiam, cerchiam, cerchiam al meno un piacer!

Nel vin, nel vin, nel vino cerchiamo almeno un piacer!

Nel vino cerchiam, nel vino cerchiam, nel vino cerchiam almeno un piacer!

Nel vino cerchiam, nel vino cerchiam almeno un piacer! Almeno un piacer!

Nel vino cerchiamo al meno un pia cer!

Almen un piacer!

Nel vino cerchiamo al men un piacer! Almen un piacer!

Nel vin cerchiam, nel vin cerchiam, almenno un piacer! Un piacer!

 

 

 

The Seal Lullaby

Eric Whitacre

Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,

And black are the waters that sparkled so green.

The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us,

At rest in the hollows that rustle between.

Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow,

Oh weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee,

Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging seas!

Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936

 

 

Spaséñiye, Sodélal

Pavel Chesnokov

Spašéñiye, sođélal yeší

Spašéñiye, sođélal yeší

Spašéñiye, sođélal yeší

Posřeđé žemĨí,

Bózhe. žemĨí, Bózhe.

AlĨilúiya. AlĨilúiya. AlĨilúiya. AlĨilúiya. (Etc.)

 

 

 

The Lord’s Prayer

Albert Hay Malotte

Our Father which art in Heaven,

Hallowed be thy Name.

Thy Kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth

As it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses

As we forgive those who trespass against us

And lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil

For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever

Amen

 

 

 

Maria

From West Side Story - Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein

The most beautiful sound I ever heard

(Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria)

All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word

(Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria

Maria, Maria)

Maria!

I’ve  just met a girl named Maria

And suddenly that name will never be the same to me.

Maria!

I just kissed a girl named Maria

And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be

Maria.

Say it loud and there's music playing.

Say it soft and it's almost like praying.

Maria,

I'll never stop saying, Maria!

Maria!

 

 

O Iesu Mawr

Dafydd Charles

O! Iesu mawr, rho d'anian bur

I eiddil gwan mewn anial dir,

I'w nerthu drwy'r holl rwystrau sy

Ar ddyrys daith i'r Ganaan fry.

 

Pob gras sydd yn yr Eglwys fawr,

Fry yn y nef, neu ar y llawr,

Caf feddu'n oll, eu meddu'n un,

Wrth feddu d'anian Di dy Hun.

 

Mi lyna'n dawel wrth dy draed,

Mi ganaf am rinweddau'r gwaed,

Mi garia'r groes, mi nofia'r don,

Ond cael dy anian dan fy mron.

 

 

 

Bring Him Home

Alain Albert Boublil / Alain Boublil / Claude Michel Schonberg / Herbert Kretzmer

God on high, Hear my prayer

In my need, You have always been there

He is young. He's afraid.

Let him rest, Heaven blessed.

Bring him home

Bring him home

Bring him home.

 

He's like the son I might have known

If God had granted me a son.

The summers die, One by one

How soon they fly, On and on

And I am old And will be gone.

 

Bring him peace. Bring him joy.

He is young. He is only a boy

You can take, You can give.

Let him be. Let him live.

 

If I die, Let me die.

Let him live

Bring him home

Bring him home

Bring him home.

Bring Him Home lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

 

 

 

Tydi A Roddaist

Arwel Hughes, T. Rowland Hughes

 Tydi a roddaist liw ir wawr

A hud ir machlud mwyn

Tydi , a luniast gerdd a sawr

Y gwanwyn yn y llwyn

O, cadw ni rhag colli’r hud

Sydd heddiw’n crwydro drwy’r holl fyd.

 

Tydi a lunaist gân I’r nant

Ai su ir goedwig werdd,

Tydi, a roist ir awel dant

Ac ir eheddyd gerdd

O, cadw ni rhag dyfod dydd

Na yrr ein calon gan yn rhydd.

 

Tydi, a glywaist lithriad traed

Ar ffordd Calfaria gynt,

Tydi, a welaist ddafnnau gwaed

Y Gwr ar ddieithr hynt;

O, cadw ni rhag dyfod oes

Heb goron ddrain na chur na chroes.

 

 

 

The Closing Prayer

Wilfred Jones

Ere we this evening do depart,

Each to his homestead dear,

To all who on their sickbed lie,

We pray, oh God, be near.

Amen