Re: How Can I Keep from Singing?

Hmm.. I keep on posting things I didn't expect to. Choral music really isn't my number one, but I couldn't resist this:



The "Land of Lakes Choirboys" are a large American multi-ensemble set up. I'm somewhat impressed that they are a "nonprofit" organization - there can't be that many of them in 'The land of the Free(traders)'.

How Can I Keep from Singing?

One of my all-time favourite hymns. I first heard it sung by Pete Seeger on a friend's recording of his and Arlo Guthrie's great 'Precious Friends' album back in the early 1990's (although I think the album predates this). One of those songs that has stuck in my life. There's a truly horrible Christian worship rehash of the tune under the same name sadly popular on YouTube. I would urge anyone to avoid it like the plague. Pete's version of this song is still by far the best (although I prefer the 'Precious Friends' live recording):



Looking it up on Wikipedia the tune was composed by Robert Wadsworth Lowry and was first published in 1869. I found it's sheetmusic on this Folksong Collection.