Song of the Chattahoochee (William L. Blumenschein)

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• (Posted 2023-09-26)  CPDL #75740:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 496 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Song of the Chattahoochee
Composer: William L. Blumenschein
Lyricist: Sidney Lanier
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1905 Rand, McNally & Company
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Original text and translations

English text

    Out of the hills of Habersham,
    Down the valleys of Hall,
I hurry amain to reach the plain,
Run the rapid and leap the fall,
Split at the rock and together again,
Accept my bed, or narrow or wide,
And flee from folly on every side
With a lover’s pain to attain the plain
    Far from the hills of Habersham,
    Far from the valleys of Hall.

    But oh, not the hills of Habersham,
    And oh, not the valleys of Hall
Avail: I am fain for to water the plain.
Downward the voices of Duty call—
Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main,
The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn,
And a myriad flowers mortally yearn,
And the lordly main from beyond the plain
    Calls o’er the hills of Habersham,
    Calls through the valleys of Hall.