by Kendall Banning (1879 - 1944)
The open road
Language: English
The roads wind over the plain, my lass, The roads sweep over the hills! As I swing along with a careless song Wherever the spirit wills. For ever the heart of youth is glad, And ever the world is new, And ever the roads lure on, my lass, For all of them lead to you. So I sing my song on the heart’s highway, And ever my song is love; But anon I rest on my journey’s quest To gather the flow’rs thereof. For ever the shadows trail the sun, As rosemary trails the rue; And ever the roads lure on, my lass, For ever they lead to you! So the songs I sing on the heart’s highway Are ever of love for you!
Authorship:
- by Kendall Banning (1879 - 1944) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gena Branscombe (1881 - 1977), "The open road", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from The Sun Dial: a Cycle of Love Songs of the Open Road, no. 4, Boston and New York: Arthur P. Schmidt [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2020-01-12
Line count: 18
Word count: 124