Song of Bacchus

A lovely original work for SATB choir from David Gillingham

Instrumentation
SATB Choir
Rehearsal Piano

Program Notes
How beautiful is youth,
That flees so fleetingly by
Let him be who chases joy
For tomorrow there is no certainty.

Look, oh look, and see their beauty and love.
Look at Bacchus and Ariadne
So beautiful and how much they are in love.
Since deceitful time flees,
They are always happy.

Joyful little satyrs
Of the nymphs enamoured,
In ev'ry cave and glad have set traps by the hundred;
Now, by Bacchus intoxicated,
Dance and leap without end.

Let him be who chases joy,
For tomorrow there is no certainty.