Product Description
Song by Thomas Moore arranged for alto (or baritone) and guitar. The conventional chords are shown by chord name above the vocal part (to be played arpeggiato or strummed)
and an optional alternative harmonisation for some verses is shown in the guitar part.
The sound sample is my own performance of the first 2 verses (using the traidtonal harmonies followed by the new harmonies).
Poem (on a traditional air) by Thomas Moore:
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart;
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene
Her Purest of crystal and brightest of green;
'Twas not the soft magic of streamlet and rill
Oh no - it was something more exquisite still.
'Twas that friends the beloved of my bosom were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charmes of nature improved,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
Sweet Vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.
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