Rooftops – for high voices (2 sopranos or 2 tenors or mixed)

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Song that I composed (originally for 2 altos) while walking through the empty streets of the City of London on the way to Church, back in the 1980s.
(The streets were empty on Sundays in those days!)

I heard a happy song on a lonely city street; but it was a song of the past.
It was a song from the days when the street was a meadow path;
it was a song when the flowers on the window boxes had grass for company.
It was a song when the Cathedral could be seen above the rooftops.

I heard a happy song on a lonely city street; but it was a song from the future:
song from the days when the street will dance with children
It was a song when the flowers in the window boxes will learn to sing.
It was a song when the rooftops won’t be seen above the clouds.

I heard a happy song on a lonely city street;
and it is a song of now
But it is a song I will sing from the rooftops to entrance the clouds.

The video here is my original alto version