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Grey Rocks and Greyer Seas
Martha Hill Duncan
voice, piano

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(performed by Marion Newman, mezzo; Kathryn Tremills, piano)

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Notes:

This jazz-inspired romantic and touching song of love lost is set against the backdrop of the freely moving sea. Twists and turns in the tonality make for some exciting and tender moments that add to the bittersweet  mood.

"Grey Rocks and Greyer Seas" won an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Diana Barnhart American Song Competition.

Text:

Grey rocks, and greyer seas,
And surf along the shore—
And in my heart a name
My lips shall speak no more.

The high and lonely hills
Endure the darkening year—
And in my heart endure
A memory and a tear.

Across the tide a sail
That tosses, and is gone—
And in my heart the kiss
That longing dreams upon.

Grey rocks, and greyer sea,
And surf along the shore—
And in my heart the face
That I shall see no more.

- Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943)

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