Story Behind The Song
Family gathering to feast and sing on Sundays in a small farm town, and how the beauty of the world outside is equally spiritual. Part of a concert-length commissioned choral work about what it is like to grow up and live as a gay man in the Midwestern Heartlands.
Song Description
for men's chorus (TTBB) and piano, movement 2 of 19 movements in "Heartlands," words & music by Arthur Durkee
| Song Length |
2:50 |
Genre |
Unique - Unclassified, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Multiple Tempos |
Lead Vocal |
Other |
| Mood |
Cheerful |
Subject |
Joy, Spirituality |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
The parlor piano
around which we sang
the wheezing old organ
that led us in hymns
Daddy played the dulcimer
while Mama sang loud
and these were our Sundays
in our little farm town. . . .