11/21/09-Sat. @ 7:30 pm.*Songs of the Season*Chicago Children's Choir

November 21, 2009-Saturday @ 7:30 pm.*Combined Choirs of the Chicago Children's Choir in "Songs of the Season Concert" (DiMension-Young Men with changing voices, Lincoln Park / De Paul, Hyde Park and Albany Park Neighborhood Vivace and Allegro Choirs) Featured Song: "Land of Our Birth" from the Cantata: "A Song of Thanksgiving" Words by: Rudyard Kipling. Music by: R. Vaughan Williams. Organ: Barry Wenger
Venue: Chicago Temple-First United Methodist Church
77 West Washington Chicago, IL

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[jdejr12]

Thanks for sharing the very meaningful lyrics of the song!

[cccsinger15]

omg i was in this!! i remember haha :)

[dbganjare321]

The more I listen this chorus the more I like it. A great sense of patriotism through the little mouth of these children make me feel joyful. Thank you.

[dbganjare321]

The song evokes a sense of patriotism, love and dedication to the motherland in the most sublime expression. Thank you for such a nice listening and viewing.

dbganjare

[renalynne2798]

i knoe!!! upload the one from the cloudgate i loved it

[renalynne2798]

i see myself hahaha im from vivace in the first row from the right move 5 ppl the 6th is me haha!!! im alto

[renalynne2798]

hahaha omg you got the lyrics i loved this song haha im in the albany park neighbor hood

[RobertCEvans]

There is a beautiful, beautiful performance of the whole orchestral Song of Thanksgiving, with John Gielgud as narrator. I hope someone will post it to youtube so its beauty can be more widely appreciated.

[RobertCEvans]

Teach us delight in simple things,

and mirth that has no bitter springs,

forgiveness free of evil done,

and love to all men 'neath the sun.

Land of our birth, our faith, our pride,

for whose dear sake our fathers died;

O Motherland, we pledge to thee

head, heart and hand through the years to be

[RobertCEvans]

Land of our birth, we pledge to thee our love and toil in the years to be, when we are grown and take our place as men and women with our race. Father in heaven, who lovest all, O help thy children when they call, that they may build from age to age an undefiled heritage. Teach us the strength that cannot seek, by deed or thought, to hurt the weak, that, under thee, we may possess man's strength to comfort man's distress.