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How Do I Keep From Singing Enya

American Christian hymn by Robert Lowry

How Can I Go along from Singing?
by Robert Lowry
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Robert Lowry

Genre Hymn
Based on Psalms 145
Meter 8.7.8.7 with refrain

"How Can I Keep From Singing?" (likewise known by its incipit "My Life Flows On in Endless Song") is an American folksong originally composed every bit a Christian hymn by American Baptist government minister Robert 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 that omits nearly of the explicitly Christian content and adds a poesy about solidarity in the face of oppression. Though it was not originally a Quaker hymn, Quakers adopted it as their own in the twentieth century and use it widely today.

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The commencement known publication of the words was on August 27, 1868, in The New York Observer. Titled "Always Rejoicing", and attributed to "Pauline T.",[i] [two] the text reads:

  My life flows on in countless vocal;
Above earth's lamentation,
I hear the sugarinessdagger, tho' far-off hymn
That hails a new creation;
Thro' all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I proceed from singing?

  What tho' my joys and comforts dice?
The Lord my Saviour liveth;
What tho' the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night he giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost at-home
While to that refuge clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of sky and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

  I lift my optics; the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it;
And twenty-four hours by day this pathway smooths,
Since starting time I learned to love it,
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain always springing;
All things are mine since I am his—
How can I continue from singing?

dagger The word "existent" is likewise used here, maybe following Pete Seeger.

These are the words as published by Robert Lowry in the 1869 song volume, Bright Jewels for the Sunday Schoolhouse.[3] Here Lowry claims credit for the music, an iambic 8.7.8.7.D tune,[4] but gives no indication as to who wrote the words. These words were likewise published in a British periodical in 1869, The Christian Pioneer,[five] only no author is indicated. Lewis Hartsough, citing Brilliant Jewels as source of the lyrics and crediting Lowry for the tune, included "How Tin I Go on from Singing?" in the 1872 edition of the Revivalist.[6] Ira D. Sankey published his own setting of the words in Gospel Hymns, No. iii (1878), writing that the words were anonymous.[7] In 1888, Henry Southward. Burrage listed this hymn as one of those for which Lowry had written the music, but not the lyrics.[viii]

Doris Plenn learned the original hymn from her grandmother, who reportedly believed that it dated from the early days of the Quaker motion. Plenn contributed the following verse effectually 1950, and information technology was taken upward by Pete Seeger and other folk revivalists:[two]

  When tyrants tremble, sick with fright,
And hear their death-knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and well-nigh,
How can I keep from singing?
In prison house cell and dungeon vile,
Our thoughts to them go winging;
When friends by shame are undefiled,
How can I go on from singing?

History [edit]

Version offset published in Bradbury's Vivid Jewels for the Sunday Schoolhouse (1869)

During the 20th century, this hymn was not widely used in congregational worship. Diehl'southward alphabetize to a large number of hymnals from 1900 to 1966 indicates that only one hymnal included it: the 1941 edition of The Church building Hymnal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, titled "My Life Flows On" (hymn no. 265).[9] [10] It was likewise published in the before 1908 7th-day Adventist hymnal, Christ in Vocal, under the championship "How Can I Keep From Singing?" (hymn no. 331).[xi] The United Methodist Church published it in its 2000 hymnal supplement, The Faith We Sing (hymn no. 2212), giving credit for the lyrics also as the tune to Robert Lowry.[12] The Religion We Sing version changes some of the lyrics and punctuation from the 1868 version. The Unitarian Universalist hymnal, printed in 1993 and following, credits the words as an "Early Quaker song" and the music as an "American gospel melody".[thirteen]

Pete Seeger learned a version of this song from Doris Plenn, a family friend, who had it from her North Carolina family. His version fabricated this song adequately well known in the folk revival of the 1960s. Seeger'southward version omits or modifies much of the Christian wording of the original, and adds Plenn's poesy above. The reference in the added poetry intended by Seeger and past Plenn—both active in left-wing causes—is to 'witch hunts' of the House Un-American Activities Committee. (Seeger himself was sentenced to a year in jail in 1955 every bit a consequence of his testimony before the committee, which he did not serve due to a technicality.)[ vague ] [ commendation needed ] About folk singers have followed Seeger's version.

In his radio singing debut, actor Martin Sheen performed this song (using the Plenn–Seeger lyrics) on A Prairie Habitation Companion in September 2007.[14]

Utilise by Quakers [edit]

The song has oft been attributed to "early" Quakers, just Quakers did not let congregational singing in worship until afterwards the American Ceremonious War (and many even so practise not have music regularly). But learning it in social activist circles of the fifties and hearing Seeger'southward (erroneous) attribution endeared the song to many contemporary Quakers, who have adopted it as a sort of anthem. It was published in the Quaker songbook Songs of the Spirit,[xv] and the original words, with Plenn's verse, were included in the much more ambitious Quaker hymnal projection, Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal [sixteen] in 1996.

Enya version [edit]

"How Can I Keep From Singing?"
Enyahowcan.jpg
Unmarried by Enya
from the album Shepherd Moons
B-side
  • 'S Fágaim Mo Bhaile
  • Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night)
Released 1991
Recorded 1990
Genre New-age
Length 4:24
Label WEA
Songwriter(s) Robert Wadsworth Lowry
Producer(s) Nicky Ryan
Enya singles chronology
"Caribbean Blue"
(1991)
"How Can I Keep From Singing?"
(1991)
"Book of Days"
(1992)
Music video
"How Can I Keep From Singing?" on YouTube

The song received new prominence in 1991 when Irish musician Enya released a recording of the hymn on her anthology Shepherd Moons. Enya's version follows Pete Seeger's replacement of some more overtly Christian lines, for example: "What tho' my joys and comforts die? The Lord my Saviour liveth" became "What tho' the tempest 'round me roars, I hear the truth it liveth." The song was released as a unmarried in November of the same year, with "Oíche Chiún" and "'S Fágaim Mo Bhaile" appearing every bit additional songs.[ commendation needed ] It reached the elevation fifty in Australia, Republic of ireland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Lawsuit [edit]

Enya and her tape company were sued for copyright infringement by Sanga Music, Inc. for recording the vocal because she had mistakenly credited this track as a "traditional Shaker hymn", thus assumed it as public domain. Pete Seeger had helped make the song fairly well known in the 1950s by publishing it with Doris Plenn's boosted 3rd verse in his folk music magazine Sing Out! (Vol. 7, No ane. 1957), recording information technology, and mistakenly credited it as a "traditional Quaker hymn" without copyrighting Plenn's verse, thus presenting the entire song as "public domain". It was again published by Sanga Music, Inc. in 1964. Seeger had presented the new verse every bit being public domain and Plenn had only wanted the song to exist preserved rather than seeking to make a turn a profit from it, so the court decided that Enya could utilise the verse without paying royalties.[17]

Music video [edit]

The video prune features Enya singing in a church in the Gaoth Dobhair countryside while also including archive footage of political figures such every bit Nelson Mandela and Boris Yeltsin, among others, and references to the Gulf War and dearth. The line about tyrants trembling shows Gennady Yanayev, leader of the 1991 Baronial Coup, in a press conference with visibly trembling easily—apparently toward the terminate when the insurrection was unraveling.

Charts [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on October eleven, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2009. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy equally title (link)
  2. ^ a b song history - How Can I Go along From Singing Archived March six, 2022, at the Wayback Automobile. mudcat.org. Retrieved on November 23, 2022.
  3. ^ Robert Lowry, ed. Bright Jewels for the Lord's day School. New York: Biglow and Main, 1869, hymn number 16.
  4. ^ Hymn 143, "How Can I Keep from Singing?" in Celebrating the Eucharist: Archetype Edition, April 17, 2022 – August 13, 2022, Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Printing, p. 404, ISBN 978-0-81462-728-0 .
  5. ^ The Christian Pioneer, a monthly mag. Vol 23, page 39, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1866.
  6. ^ Hillman, Joseph; Hartsough, Lewis, eds. (1872). The revivalist: A collection of choice revival hymns and tunes. Troy, New York. p. 305. , No. 586. The 1872 edition had 336 pages including revised and enlarged indexes but was otherwise like in appearance to the 1868 and 1869 editions.
  7. ^ Ira D. Sankey, Gospel hymns no. 3, New York: Biglow & Main, 1878, hymn no. 66
  8. ^ Burrage, Henry S. Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns. Portland, Maine: Dark-brown, Thurston & Co., 1888, p. 433.
  9. ^ Takoma Park Physician: Review and Herald Publishing Assn
  10. ^ Diehl, Katharine Smith (1996). Hymns and Tunes—An Index. New York: Scarecrow Printing.
  11. ^ Washington DC: Review and Herald Publishing Association. Facsimile reproduction.
  12. ^ HIckman, Hoyt L., ed. The Faith We Sing. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2000, hymn no. 2212.
  13. ^ Singing the Living Tradition Boston, MA: The Unitarian Universalist Clan, 1993, hymn no. 108.
  14. ^ "A Prairie Home Companion for September 29, 2007". American Public Media. Archived from the original on July four, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
  15. ^ Friends General Briefing Religious Education Committee (1978). Songs of the Spirit. Philadelphia: Friends Full general Conference.
  16. ^ Friends General Briefing (1996). Worship in Vocal: A Friends Hymnal. Philadelphia: Friends General Conference.
  17. ^ Fishman, Stephen. "Copyright and the Public Domain" (PDF). world wide web.lawcatalog.com. ALM. p. 6-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 4, 2022. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  18. ^ "Enya – How Can I Keep from Singing?". ARIA Top l Singles. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  19. ^ "Enya – How Can I Go on from Singing?" (in Dutch). Ultratop fifty. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  20. ^ "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 9, no. 2. January 11, 1992. p. xix. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  21. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – How Can I Keep from Singing". Irish gaelic Singles Nautical chart. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  22. ^ "Enya – How Tin I Keep from Singing?". Singles Top 100. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  23. ^ "Enya: Creative person Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September three, 2022.

External links [edit]

  • Original words with MIDI version of tune
  • Seeger's lyrics
  • How Can I Keep From Singing - Is It A Shaker Hymn?

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Can_I_Keep_from_Singing%3F

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