McCrae Song Cycle: Isandlwana for alto and piano (mp3)
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Instruments
Voice Solo
Piano Accompaniment
Alto Voice
Genres
21st Century
Neo-Classical
Formats
Performance MP3
Usages
School and Community
Piano Accompaniment,Alto Voice - Digital Download

SKU: S0.663761

Composed by Mike Roberts. 21st Century,20th Century,Neo-Classical. Performance. Published by David Warin Solomons (S0.663761).

(For the Score go to the composer's website) :
https://www.mikerobertscomposer.com/

Setting by Mike Roberts of a poem by John McCrae:
Sung by David Warin Solomons


            Scarlet coats, and crash o' the band,
                The grey of a pauper's gown,
            A soldier's grave in Zululand,
                And a woman in Brecon Town.
My little lad for a soldier boy,
    (Mothers o' Brecon Town!)
My eyes for tears and his for joy
    When he went from Brecon Town,
His for the flags and the gallant sights
His for the medals and his for the fights,
And mine for the dreary, rainy nights
    At home in Brecon Town.

They say he's laid beneath a tree,
    (Come back to Brecon Town!)
Shouldn't I know? — I was there to see:
    (It's far to Brecon Town!)
It's me that keeps it trim and drest
With a briar there and a rose by his breast —
The English flowers he likes the best
    That I bring from Brecon Town.

And I sit beside him — him and me,
    (We're back to Brecon Town.)
To talk of the things that used to be
    (Grey ghosts of Brecon Town);
I know the look o' the land and sky,
And the bird that builds in the tree near by,
And times I hear the jackals cry,
    And me in Brecon Town.

            Golden grey on miles of sand
                The dawn comes creeping down;
            It's day in far off Zululand
                And night in Brecon Town.

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