Song of the Gardener - Gray, Michael

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◈ Genre → Passions

♯ Key G major

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range C2 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 66

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 51610

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2018-10-28

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

B3 – G5

Alto

D3 – C5

Baritone

B2 – E4

Piano

C2 – C5

¶Lyrics / Text

Oh my love wears a rose, from the garden of her birth In her hair, crimson sweet, like a breath from the earth. On the morning we met, we beheld a joyous sun Dawn embraced life anew. Sighing soft, we were one. But the rose fled my hand, and in crimson fire scorned, Wept my soul for her love and our blesséd wedding morn I could wail I could die. In our garden flowers moaned Withering trees bowed their heads, yet the pain was my own. Oh she kissed many lips in the rose's fading light And each sin, scarlet stained, soiled her pure wedding white. I am her's though betrayed. I am lover evermore. Passion's truth cannot yield. Heaven's songs thus emplore. And my love flamed to save from the evil she had worn. Faith redeem, once renew. Gladly I bear her thorn. So I bleed. So I die. In my garden I am hung With my rose's tender thorns and at last we are one.