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Come the Sails

Listen to a live performance at the “Amazing Grace” Concert of Sue Furlong’s Music in Wexford, Ireland in May 2017.

Come the Sails is a majestic maritime choral anthem inspired by the 50 Tall Ships which docked on the quays of Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford, in 2011.

With lyrics penned by John Ennis and music composed by Sue Furlong, this adaptation for male voices would grace the universal stages of any international maritime festival.

Come the Sails is scored for T,T,Baritone, B,B, with piano accompaniment.

Full orchestral parts available from the composer.

SATB version with children’s chorus available at http://www.suefurlongmusic.ie

Duration: 3:47

 

Urbs intacta manet

Lend us your sails, your stories too.

Taller than skysails in the blue,

Stowaways to the future, stowaways to the future

Lend us your sails,lend us your sails.

Come the sails we only dreamed of,

Breast again the gleaming tide.

Come the sails we only dreamed of

from the oceans far and wide:

Unfurl the sailing city,

Every hand will know the ropes.

Unfurl the sailing city

White horses of our hopes.

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Grant us the wind be fair

Where cross-trees bloom in the gull-tossed air,

Stowaways to the future, stowaways to the future

Wind be fair, wind be fair.

Come the sails we only dreamed of

from the oceans far and wide:

Unfurl the sailing city,

Every hand will know the ropes.

Unfurl the sailing city

White horses of our hopes.

 

Maritime music by Sue Furlong

This is a documentary on the making of the whole work of which Sue’s contribution is the finale “Come the Sails”.