DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS

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Song Title
DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS
Writers
Weill, Whitman
Publisher
HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PUBLISHING CORP. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%
Territory Controlled
US
Themes/Keywords
1940's, Grave, Inspiration, Love, Moon, Mysterious, Poem, Soldiers, Sun
Lyrics
The last sunbeam lightly falls
From the finished Sabbath;
On the pavement here and there
Beyond, it is looking,
Down a new made double grave.
Lo! The moon ascending!
Up from the east, the silver round moon;
Beautiful over the house tops,
Ghastly phantom moon;
Immense and silent moon.
I see a sad procession,
And I hear the sound
Of coming full key’d bugles;
All the channels of the city streets
They’re flooding,
As with voices and with tears.
I hear the great drums pounding
And the small drums steady whirring,
And ev’ry blow of the great convulsive drums
Strikes me through and through.
For the son is brought with the father;
In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell;
Two veterans, son and father, dropt together,
And the double grave awaits them.
Now nearer blow the bugles.
And the drums strike more convulsive.
And the daylight o’er the pavement
Quite has faded,
And the strong dead-march enwraps me!
O moon immense, with your silv’ry face
You soothe me!
O my soldiers twain!
O my veterans passing to burial!
What I have I also give you.
The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music;
Ad my heart, o my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives uou love.

Recordings

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Paul Sperry Classical Confident, Dramatic, Somber Piano, Vocal 1990's Buy >

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