SONG OF GREETING
(lyrics – B. Kornilov music D. Shostakovitch)
from "A Russian Song Book"

The morn-ing greets us with its cool-ness
The riv-er greets us with a breeze
And life o-pens up in its full-ness
And sing-ing is heard o'er the trees

Don't sleep, a-rise, tou cur-ly-head
The mill sings gay
The land a-ris-es from its bed
to greet the day

And joy sings a song for a greet-ing
a song with-out end in the air
And peo-ple laugh as they are meet-ing
the morn-ing is sun-ny and fair

the sun shines bright-ly o-ver-head
we'll make our hay
The land a-ris-es from its bed
to greet the day

The work-ers with lab-or shall greet us.
As you to yyoooour friends cast a smile.
The whole cit-y comes out to meet us,
It makes life seem doub-ly worth-while

Be-yond the cit-y gates 'Tis said
In ev-'ry way
The land a-ris-es from its bed
to greet the day


And with it to vic-tor-y striv-ing
You, our youth will ad-vance
And new gen-er-a-tions ar-riv-ing
Shall car-ry the torch with firm hands

Life rushe-es on it streams a-head
Young heads turn gray
The land a-ris-es from its bed
to greet the day

With words pour-ing forth like a fount-ain
An-nounce to the world "Truth is here"
Go for-ward to con-quer life's mount-ain
To meet toil land love year by year

This love of life my curl-y head
Will make life pay
The land a-ris-es from its bed
to greet the day

MIDI file: songof~1.mid

Timebase: 192

Name: Song of Greeting
Text: By lyrics B. Kornilov music D. Shostakovitch
Key: D
TimeSig: 2/4 24 8
Start
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