Name: Earth Goes On ("How Can I Keep from Singing")
Duration: P00H03M22S
Description: Remake. Many thanks and credit to the forebears: Robert Lowry (1868), Pete Seeger (1960), Enya (1991). It was Enya's version that I knew and loved as a child, thanks to my mom. In the tradition of revising the lyrics, I've also made significant changes.

Earth Goes On ("How Can I Keep from Singing")

from Sapphics in Shedding Season (EP) by Tim Koehn

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Remake. Many thanks and credit to the forebears: Robert Lowry (1868), Pete Seeger (1960), Enya (1991). It was Enya's version that I knew and loved as a child, thanks to my mom. In the tradition of revising the lyrics, I've also made significant changes.

lyrics

The earth goes on in endless song
within its lamentation.
You'll hear the near and endless hymn
that sings of recreation.
Through all the shifting and the strife,
you'll hear the music ringing.
The deepest echo in your soul--
that's the earth still singing.

You lift your eyes; the cloud grows thin;
you see the blue above it.
And day by day this pathway bends
since first you learned to love it.
The storms must shake and then grow calm
while to this rock we're clinging.
Grass will grow where soil grows thin
and keep the last bird singing.

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from Sapphics in Shedding Season (EP), released November 10, 2022
Olivia Tipton - harmonies on the sampled intro.

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Tim Koehn Nicosia, Cyprus

Tim Koehn, currently based in Cyprus, teaches for a living but writes and makes music any chance he gets.

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