‘How can we sing’

choir on 25Jan2026, 3rdEpiphany

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How can we sing Choir Words: Andrew Donaldson
Music: Troubadour Song from the French alps 1552
Arranged for choir by Terry MacArthur

1. How can we sing our souls aghast and shaken? Sing, when our hope has broken like a bone? Long-whispered schemes now rise up, proud and open. Tyrants and kings now rule us from a throne. (2x)

2. How can we sing? What good will come with praises? Songs fill the air; they soar, then soon are gone. Hordes overturn our safe and sacred places,
leave not a trace, nor stone upon a stone, (2x)

3. How can we sing? for who will hear our voices? Why does a lie sound wiser than a psalm? Shrewd powers lead from crisis into crisis;

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