New Song

The final song that made it into this draft of Usher is one called "My Love" and is sung by Annabel to demonstrate the source of the influences on her flute composition.  The lyrics are a poem written by Robert Burns, whom you may know as the writer of Auld Lang Syne.  You can sing this poem to that tune as well.  It was a challenge to write something that sounded similar and yet different enough to be unrecognizable.  It's just a short little song, but I like it very much.  I'm meeting with my soprano who sang as Annabel for the concept CD on Monday to ask if the notes have been written reasonably well.

My Love

My love is like a red, red rose,

That's newly sprung in June:

My love is like a melody,

That's sweetly played in tune.

So fair are you, my handsome lad,

So deep in love am I;

And I will love you still, my love,

'Til all the seas go dry.

'Til all the seas go dry, my love,

And the rocks melt with the sun:

And I will love you still, my love,

While the sands of life shall run.