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How Can I Keep From Singing 
How Can I Keep From Singing 
(G) C F / C G / C F C / C G C / C - / C - / C F C / C G C 
My life flows on in endless song Above earth's lamentation. I hear the real, thought far off hymn That hails the new creation
 Above the tumult and the strife, I hear the music ringing; It sounds an echo in my soul How can I keep from singing? 
What through the tempest loudly roars, I hear the truth, it liveth. What through the darkness round me close, Songs in the night it giveth.
 No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging. Since love is lord of Heaven and earth How can I keep from singing? 
When tyrants tremble, sick with fear, And hear their death-knell ringing, When friends rejoice both far and near, How can I keep from singing?
 In prison cell and dungeon vile Our thoughts to them are winging. When friends by shame are undefiled, How can I keep from singing? 
Pete Seeger helped to make this song fairly well-known in the folk-revival. He learned it from Doris Plenn, who had it from her North Carolina family. It can be found in SING OUT, Vol 7, No 1, 1957. 
Recorded by Ed Trickett on Turning Toward the Morning, FSI-56 DC