for the ABCD North West Honour Choir and the Lancaster Singers
Like a Singing Bird
Christina Rossetti (1830–94) BOB CHILCOTT
Robert Burns (1759–96)
With
a gospel fervour
q = 84
UPPER
VOICES
SOPRANO
ALTO
TENOR
BASS
With a gospel fervour q = 84
PIANO
mp dolce
mf
5 UPPER VOICES
mp
My heart is like a sing - ing bird
mp
9
poco cresc.
Whose nest is in a wa -ter’d shoot; My heart is like an
poco cresc.
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12
ap - ple tree Whose boughs are bent with thick - set fruit;
15
mf
My heart is like a rain- bow shell That pad - dles in a hal - cyon
mf
18
mp
sea; My heart is glad - der than all these Be -
mp
21
- cause my love is come to me.
f
5
24
f
Raise me a da - is of
mf
f
28
silk and down; Hang it with vair and pur - ple dyes;
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Carve it in doves and pom - e - gran - ates, And pea-cocks with a hun - dred
34 mf
eyes; Work it in gold and sil - ver grapes, In
mf
6
37 f
leaves and sil - ver fleur - de - lys; Be- cause the birth - day
f
40
of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
mf
44
mp
48 UPPER VOICES
mp
(Melody: traditional Scottish ballad)
My heart is like a sing - ing bird
p legato espress.
S.
A.
O my love is like a red, red rose That’s
T.
B.
p legato espress.
