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She Waits for Me  (text: anonymous)
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for mixed choir, a cappella; 4’  (2017)
(commissioned by the UW-Madison Chorale)


composer's note: ​Along with "Little Things," this piece was commissioned as part of a choral concert on the theme of bicycles and bike-riding.  I just love the way this text is gently funny, but also so sweet and warm.  Its source is anonymous, but it feels very Victorian and droll, and so I set it as something like a Victorian parlor song, with some clichéd but lovely & rich harmonies, and a general sense of jovial warmth.

text:
When worn and tired with toil and care
   I homeward wheel my way,
A thought dispels my dark despair
   And lights the homeward way;
A vision fair far up the street
   With straining eyes I see -
I hurry then my love to meet -
   I know she waits for me.

She waits for me, my love, my own
   She greets me with a smile,
I hear again her tender tone,
   It shortens every mile.
She waits for me, because, you see,
   Like lightning she can go -
At every turn she waits for me - 
   I ride so awful slow!

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