Singer of Life

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Song Details

Title: Singer of Life
Text: From a Texcoco Nahuatl poem
Tune: LACQUIPARLE
Music: Plains Indian traditional, 1879
Key: C minor
Meter: irregular
Date Added: 2021/03/08

Lyrics

Singer of Life, all flowers are songs, with petals do you write.
Singer of Life, you color the earth, dazzling the eye with birds red and bright.
Joy is for us! The flowers are spread! Singing is our delight!

Mortal are we, with all living things, with eagles in the sky.
Even all gold and jade will not last; singing alone, I know, cannot die.
Here in this house of springtime bestow songs that like birds can fly.

Alternate words

Wakantanka (Many and Great)