Elisabeth Null - Simple Gifts

Elisabeth Null performing the Shaker standard tune, "Simple Gifts."

LYRICS:

'Tis a gift to be simple,
'Tis a gift to be free,
'Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
It will be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend, we will not be ashamed
To turn, turn, will be our delight,
'Til by turning, turning, we come round right.

(repeats)

"Simple Gifts" is an 1848 Shaker song by Elder Joseph Brackett.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Simple
• Gifts
• Shaker

[Mary9172095]

I love this song!!!!!!! The singer is good and the melody is a little different than the one that I have heard in the past.

[onitram1]

@ZibbaZoob

Yes, he was, but he had nothing to do with this song other than incorporating it into Appalachian Spring. It is a Shaker song written by Elder Joseph Brackett of the Alfred, Maine community.

[1wendy1S]

I was try to found this song.... FOR YEARS!

Now I've done... and I will listen this calm song.

[britany247]

@yoshisparker no its bow and to bend we hav the correct lyrics in choir

[yoshisparker]

part of this was wrong it wasn't to bow and to bend it was to bow and to beg we shan't be ashamed

[Jesse57896]

We r singing this song for chrpus i lkove it

[ZibbaZoob]

beautiful Appalachian Spring is my favorite ballet Aaron Copland was very talented

[hankm77]

this is great

[ilovevideos90]

i can play this on the violin not hard