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CoverThere Has to Be a Song [level: Easy]
Andrea Ramsey | Janeal Krehbiel Choral Series
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voicing: SA or TB | catalog number: SBMP 963 | duration: 3:10 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

The text comes to spirited life as this gospel style setting lauds the value of a song to improve the quality of our lives. This is a song that needs to be sung! Also available for SATB.

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CoverThere Has to Be a Song [level: Easy]
Andrea Ramsey
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voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 970 | duration: 3:35 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: piano

The text comes to spirited life as this gospel style setting lauds the value of a song to improve the quality of our lives. This is a song that needs to be sung! Also available for SA or TB.

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CoverThere Is a Balm in Gilead [level: Medium]
arr. René Clausen
voicing: SATB div; S &/or T s | catalog number: SBMP 611 | duration: 6:20 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

Composer Clausen wrote this arrangement for his Concordia Choir to take on their tour. Loaded with sensitive feeling, this piece is guaranteed to have an impact on the audience.

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CoverThere Is Another Sky [level: Easy]
Seth Burk
voicing: SAB | catalog number: SBMP 1310 | duration: 3:30 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

The charming Emily Dickinson poem has been perfectly set for young singers with lots of melodic interest for all, great style in the piano part, and enough challenge to keep the singers engaged.

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CoverThere Is No Rose [level: Medium]
Melinda Bargreen
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 524 | duration: 2:30 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

A magnificent setting of this text resplendent with beautiful harmonies, in 2012 it was featured on the Belmont University Christmas TV special.

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CoverThere Is No Rose [level: Medium]
René Clausen
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 579 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: harp, cello

The cello and harp add color and drama to this beautiful melodic setting of the famous text.

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CoverThere Is No Rose [level: Medium]
Joshua Himes | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1220 | duration: 3:25 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

Tightly woven harmonies are the hallmark of this impressive piece. A vibrant hall will help illuminate the color inherent in the lush chords that are abundantly present here.

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CoverThere Is Sweet Music Here [level: Medium]
Zachary J. Moore | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1277 | duration: 4:15 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: piano

The Tennyson poem lauds the many soothing values of music. The composer first created tranquil music emblematic of the text, and then, repeating the words “music here,” gradually takes us to great heights for the ending, bringing this celebration of music to a dramatic close. With divisi only at the ending, this special piece can be enjoyed by choirs of any size.

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CoverThere was a time [level: Medium]
Eric William Barnum | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. / sop. solo / incidental tenor solo | catalog number: SBMP 770 | duration: 3:55 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

Like a fine artist, the composer paints a beautiful picture of this text by Wordsworth. Conservative ranges, and very little divisi put this piece within the reach of most choirs. The soprano solo adds interest to the piece, and it too, is conservative in its range; the 5-bar incidental tenor solo is at the octave with the soprano soloist. As the Wordsworth text suggests, “sing a joyous song!”

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CoverThere Will Come Soft Rains [level: Medium]
Connor J. Koppin
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 1390 | duration: 5:20 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

Teasdale’s famous poem is dramatically defined in this musical gem. With lots of color, and great expressive dictates, fine choirs will revel in the challenge of this beautiful composition.

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CoverThere Will Come Soft Rains [level: Medium]
Brian Holmes | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1062 | duration: 4:15 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: a cappella

Two poems by Sara Teasdale contrast the sadness and ugliness of war with the resilience and splendor of nature in springtime. A masterful setting of these profound texts, with great word painting and sensitivity, it would fit especially well in thematic concerts about war or peace or nature.

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CoverThere’s Gonna be a Homecomin’ [level: Medium]
Kyle Pederson
voicing: SSATB | catalog number: SBMP 1588 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: piano

Plenty of joy, fun, and playfulness in this piece. With a gospel groove, a rockin' piano accompaniment, and vocal lines that all parts can sink their teeth into--this piece is perfect for your first/homecoming concert of the year. The text affirms the power of any community (church, school, family, town) to surround its members with love and be a voice and force for wholeness, reconciliation, and hope.

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CoverThis Is the Morning That Will Rise [level: Medium]
Matthew Emery | Jamie Hillman Choral Series
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SAB. opt. T | catalog number: SBMP 1773 | duration: 4'21 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: piano

A lyrical new piece for mixed choirs — SAB with an optional Tenor part, and piano accompaniment. Stylistic features include offbeat rhythms paired with modern harmonies and a contrasting piano part. Uplifting lyrics make this an enjoyable song to learn and to perform.

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CoverThis Is Your Time [level: Medium]
J. Reese Norris | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1584 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: piano, percussion, opt. guitar

The profound text quotes Sir Winston Churchill with his challenge to young people. This dramatic piece needs to be sung!

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CoverThis Is Your Time [level: Medium]
J. Reese Norris | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: TBB | catalog number: SBMP 1585 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: piano, percussion, opt. guitar

The profound text quotes Sir Winston Churchill with his challenge to young people. This dramatic piece needs to be sung!

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CoverThis Is Your Time (SSA) [level: Medium]
J. Reese Norris | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1458 | price: $2.60
accompaniment: piano, percussion , opt. guitar

The profound text quotes Sir Winston Churchill with his challenge to young people. This dramatic piece needs to be sung!

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CoverThis Song of Mine [level: Medium]
David N. Childs
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1396 | duration: 4:05 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: piano

Set to an elegant and thought-provoking text by R. Tagore, the composer created beautiful melodies and an accompaniment in the style of a fine art song to bring this text to vivid life.

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CoverThis Train [level: Medium]
arr. Nina Gilbert | Jerry Blackstone Choral Series
voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 178 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: trombone

Train sounds emanate from the choir. The trombone adds a bit of seemingly improvised jazz. Pure fun.

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CoverThou Art My Radiant Star [level: Medium]
Handel, arr. Robert Sieving
voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 1037 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: piano

This delightful aria, sung by Cleopatra in Handel’s opera Julius Caesar, has been skillfully arranged with melodic writing for each part, while shared rhythmic patterns and canonic interest contribute to the musicality of the score. The text asks that the “bright heavenly star shine its light on me.” Not too demanding vocally, this will appeal to many ages of treble choirs.

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CoverThreaded with Stars [level: Medium]
Susan LaBarr
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1240 | duration: 3:40 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Starting in unison, then adding a part, and another, and mid-way through we reach the stars with all four parts involved. This is a treble a cappella piece that is stunning. Sara Teasdale off in the heavens would delight to hear this wonderful setting of her poem.

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CoverThree Japanese Folksongs [level: Easy]
Misuzu McManus
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 523 | duration: 2:45, 2:50, 2:00 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: piano, fl or ob, bell

The Japanese American composer chose three delightful, contrasting folksongs. Beautiful melody, fun rhythms, and humor all are present. A bit of staging, perhaps a dancer, could add an additional dimension to this excellent set. Also available for SATB.

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CoverThree Japanese Folksongs [level: Easy]
arr. Misuzu McManus
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 440 | duration: 2:45, 2:50, 2:00 | price: $230
accompaniment: piano, fl or ob, bell

The Japanese American composer chose three delightful, contrasting folksongs. Beautiful melody, fun rhythms, and humor all are present. A bit of staging, perhaps a dancer, could add an additional dimension to this excellent set. Also available for SSAA.

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CoverThree Love Canons [level: Medium]
Carson Cooman
voicing: any | catalog number: SBMP 1166 | price: $1.85
accompaniment: a cappella

A splendid contrast in a concert program, these clever and sophisticated canons will intrigue audiences and delight singers. Their titles: Leap into Love, From Your Heart, and One Word. The voicing is adaptable to many combinations.

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CoverThree Nightsongs [level: Medium]
Joshua Shank
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 598 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: piano

1. Evening 2. Moonsong 3. Water Youngster poet Hilda Conkling's poems see the world through fresh eyes; Joshua Shank discovers the beauty of her poetry and composes with fresh ideas. A wonderful marriage of text and music.

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CoverThree Poems by Emily [level: Medium]
Michael Larkin
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1106 | duration: 4:30 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano

A delightful set crafted of diverse poems by beloved poet Emily Dickinson, each piece has its own style befitting the nature of the text. With no divisi, conservative ranges, and much sharing of the melodies, choirs of many ability levels will enjoy this set.

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CoverThunder [level: Medium]
Randall Johnson | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1508 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

A fascinating Sioux legend is at work in this exciting piece. To be sung with gusto. the lyrics are short and repetitive, with pure vowels and many letter Ks , the latter adding percussive interest to the piece.

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CoverTis a Gift [level: Easy]
arr. Nancy Grundahl
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 472 | duration: 3:15 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

Written to be sung in the round, all parts are easy, yet weave together to form an interesting fabric that works well in a spatial setting.


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CoverTo a Friend [level: Medium]
Giselle Wyers | Giselle Wyers Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1472 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

The Amy Lowell text ends “leave my heart its songs!” The composer’s hallmark is her sensitive setting of texts. This piece is no exception.

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CoverTo Daffodils [level: Medium]
Andrea Ramsey
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 745 | duration: 2:50 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

A sensitive setting of the Robert Herrick poem. The artistic melodic and harmonic treatment, with very little divisi, this piece can serve the interests of many choirs.

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CoverTo Hold All Sounds [level: Medium]
Andrea Ramsey | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP 1120 | duration: 6:30 | price: $2.25
accompaniment: organ, timpani

Dramatic and profoundly moving, set to text from Whitman’s LEAVES OF GRASS, this is an outstanding piece for the large choir. Organ and timpani provide color and excitement. 6:30 in length, it would be a fine closer or centerpiece for a concert.

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CoverTo make a prairie… [level: Easy]
Kenneth Carter
voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 1031 | duration: 5:30 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano, clarinet

Emily Dickinson’s whimsical poem comes to sparkling life via a beautiful melody for the singers. The clarinet gets a turn at the melody, and the piano adds color and support. Mostly in unison, the two-part writing is equal in range. Some humming, along with buzzing of the bee sounds, make this is a great piece for teaching vocal techniques to young singers.

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CoverTo the Holy Spirit [level: Medium]
Joan Szymko
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 838 | duration: 3:30 | price: $1.70
accompaniment: piano

Wendell Berry’s poem inspires us to imagine the extreme reaches of the “holy spirit.” As always, Joan Szymko perfectly captures the sense of the text to bring us a dramatic piece.

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CoverTo the Moonbeam [level: Easy]
David Asher Brown | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SA or TB | catalog number: SBMP 1225 | duration: 2:45 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: piano

Charming and sophisticated, audiences will leave humming this melody while pondering the significance of the thought-provoking Percy Bysshe Shelley poem. An artistic piano accompaniment adds color and interest to this special piece.

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CoverTo the New Jerusalem [level: Medium]
Walker, arr. Matthew Culloton | Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series
voicing: SATB div. | catalog number: SBMP 703 | duration: 3:00 | price: $2.30
accompaniment: a cappella

This arrangement of the upbeat shape-note tune is a great one for a procession, to sing in the round, or just to perk up a concert. The arrangement builds in strength to a dramatic ending.

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CoverToboggan! [level: Medium]
Mona Lyn Reese | Daniel Hughes Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1038 | duration: 2:10 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: flute or treble recorder

A classy piece, it was created with great whimsy reflective of the theme as the vocal lines occasionally have a downhill slide. The grace notes of the flute or recorder enhance the dance-like rhythms. Toboggan is a worthy novelty number or encore for a winter program.

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CoverTread Softly [level: Medium]
Connor J. Koppin | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1447 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano

This setting of the profound Yeats poem wiill be a favorite of singers as the composer lets each section have a turn at singing the melody, the conclusion bringing them together as one.

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CoverTrees [level: Medium]
Daniel Brinsmead | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1117 | duration: 3:55 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: a cappella

“I think I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” states the beloved poem by Joyce Kilmer. Marked “espressivo,” choirs will delight in creating their unique stamp on this beautiful composition.

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CoverTrio from the Magic Flute [level: Medium]
W.A. Mozart, arr. Robert Sieving
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 802 | duration: 5:40 | price: $2.35
accompaniment: piano

A wonderful opportunity for singers to experience the magic of music from a Mozart opera. A very effective piece, without being overly difficult.

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CoverTu sangre en la mía [level: Medium]
Shawn L. Kirchner
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voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1377 | duration: 3:30 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: piano

The Grammy nominated piece is set to a poem by famed poet Pablo Neruda. The composition is stylish and sophisticated and will be a welcome addition to music set in the Spanish language. The title translates “My Blood.”

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CoverTu Voz [level: Medium]
Shawn L. Kirchner
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 705 | duration: 4:30 | price: $2.50
accompaniment: piano

Set to a Spanish text by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, this is a dramatic love song that reflects the Spanish tradition with a colorful piano accompaniment supporting the folk-like melodies of the singers. Although written for a large festival choir, the piece would adapt well to the chamber choir.

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CoverTuimbe Kwa Furaha [level: Medium]
Robert Begisen
RELEASED: March 2024
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1781 | duration: 2'52 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: drum, shaker

Translated as “Let’s sing with Joy!”, here is another cheerful original by Kenyan composer Robert Jim Begisen for treble choirs, a cappella, with optional percussion. Written in Swahili, and complete with a phonetic pronunciation guide and translation. Perfect for holiday concerts or any time of year, this piece is great fun and quick to learn. This works well with treble choirs of all levels and sizes.

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CoverTuli Tuli [level: Easy]
arr. Alex Gartner | Robyn Lana Choral Series
voicing: SAB | catalog number: SBMP 1477 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: djembe

Singers will delight in this fun arrangement of an African song. The lyrics are nonsense syllables, the mood of the piece upbeat. Add a bit of movement, and this will be a program highlight.

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CoverTum Balalaika [level: Easy]
arr. Jay Broeker | Robert J. Ward Choral Series
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voicing: Unison or SA | catalog number: SBMP 228 | price: $1.95
accompaniment: violin or clarinet & piano

A favorite piece of treble choirs, the arrangement captures all the magic of this famous song, the violin or clarinet adding a feeling of authenticity.

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CoverTum Balalayka [level: Easy]
arr. Marjan Helms | Mary Alice Stollak Choral Series
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 697 | duration: 4:00 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano; opt. strings

A stirring arrangement of the famous folk song. Helms has added the option of strings bringing even greater drama to the piece.

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CoverTunkashila [level: Medium]
arr. Randall Johnson | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1406 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano, flute, powow drum

An American Indian chant is given authentic attention in this vibrant arrangement. A flute and drum join in to add interest to the composition, while a piano anchors and enhances it.

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CoverTurn Around [level: Easy]
Greene, Reynolds, Belafonte, arr. René Clausen
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 542 | duration: 3:15 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano

Made famous by Harry Belafonte, this poignant song about a girl quickly growing up will be a favorite of high school and women’s choirs.


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CoverTurning the Pages [level: Easy]
Daniel Brinsmead | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
RELEASED: September 2023
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1755 | price: $2.70
accompaniment: piano

Written for the Australian Children’s Choir, this new pop/musical-theatre style choral piece by Daniel Brinsmead is joyful, catchy, and fun! Speech-driven original lyrics, a rocking piano accompaniment, and accessible vocal writing in mostly two-parts throughout. Treble choirs of all ages will love singing this: “I’m turning the pages of a story unwritten…the story of my life!” 

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CoverTurtle Dove [level: Easy]
arr. Merrilee Webb
voicing: TB | catalog number: SBMP 76 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano

The beautiful English folk song, tastefully arranged in two parts, is perfect for boys, or grown men, wanting an easy to learn, yet highly effective piece. With its long phrases and legato style, it provides a great opportunity to teach vocal techniques.

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CoverTwo Grenadiers [level: Medium]
Robert Schumann, arr. Robert Sieving | Terry J. Barham Choral Series
voicing: TBB | catalog number: SBMP 1149 | duration: 3:30 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: piano

A spirited piece, it concludes with the French La Marseillaise, the now famous melody created in Napolean’s time. Here we have history set to music by a famous composer, skillfully arranged for men.

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CoverTwo Sisters, The [level: Easy]
arr. Joshua Shank | Randy and Rachel Stenson Choral Series
voicing: TB | catalog number: SBMP 936 | duration: 3:30 | price: $2.40
accompaniment: piano

Ever clever composer Joshua Shank chose an obscure murder ballad that stands aside the likes of more famous Frankie and Johnny, and gave the tune artful and savvy treatment that boys will love.

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Ride the Chariot
SATB
arr. Stacey V. Gibbs