This is one of my personal favorite choral pieces sung by a Polish university choir. It is James Erb's arrangement of a traditional American folk song, Shenandoah. Most people believe this song is written from the perspective of a Union soldier in the USAmerican Civil War. It is very beautiful and very sad. Here are the lyrics:
O Shenandoah, I long to see you
And hear your rolling river
O Shenandoah, I long to see you
'Way, we're bound away
Across the wide Missouri
I long to see your smiling valley
And hear your rolling river
I long to see your smiling valley
'Way, we're bound away
Across the wide Missouri
'Tis seven long years since last I see you
And hear your rolling river
'Tis seven long years since last I see you
'Way, we're bound away
Across the wide Missouri
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