How Can I Keep From Singing? Songtext
von John McCutcheon

My life flows on in endless song
Above earth′s lamentation
I hear the real though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation

No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I'm clinging
It sounds an echo in my soul
How can I keep from singing?

What though the darkness round me falls
I know the truth, it liveth
What though the tempest round me roars
Songs in the night it giveth


No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I′m clinging
It sounds an echo in my soul
How can I keep from singing?

And when tyrants tremble sick with fear
And hear their death knells ringing
When friends rejoice both far and near
How can I keep from singing?

In prison cell and dungeon vile
Our thoughts to them are winging
When friends by shame are undefiled
How can I keep from singing?

My life flows on in endless song
Above earth's lamentation
I hear the real though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation

Through all the tumult and the strife
Those freedom bells come ringing
Since love is lord of heaven and earth