Three Songs

Song Cycle by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986)

?. New England Pastoral  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I never felt at Home - Below - 
And in the Handsome Skies 
I shall not feel at Home - I know - 
I don't like Paradise - 
Because it's Sunday - all the time - 
And Recess - never comes - 
And Eden'll be so lonesome 
Bright Wednesday Afternoons - 
If God could make a visit - 
Or ever took a Nap - 
So not to see us - but they say 
Himself - a Telescope 
Perennial beholds us - 
Myself would run away 
From Him - and Holy Ghost - and All - 
But there's the "Judgement Day"!

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Total word count: 82