Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Songbook of 128 Favorites, to Inspire, Reflect and Renew Your Soul

Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Songbook of 128 Favorites, to Inspire, Reflect and Renew Your Soul by Reader's Digest. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780762106189.

A songbook of 128 favorites to inspire, reflect on, and renew your soul, Lift Every Voice and Sing is an indispensable treasury of music for singers and musicians seeking a comprehensive sourcebook of songs that enrich our lives. Feel the vast, inexplicable appreciation of faith, joy of living, and patriotism that can be expressed through song. These unique arrangements are created to be enjoyed in a variety of ways: vocal lines, easy-to-play piano lines, melody lines that can be played by a variety of instruments, guitar diagrams above the staves, and small notes for bass players. Durable hardcover and double loop spiral-bound construction allows for long-lasting use, flat reading, and easy page turning. With more than 50 illustrations and synopses for each song, plus an included 32-page lyric book, this collection is sure to be a welcome addition at parties, family get-togethers, sing-alongs, and other gatherings where people want to play and sing these integral American classic songs. A real value! This new Readers Digest offering includes: inspirational hits like "I Believe" and "How Great Thou Art;" songs from stage and screen classics such as Oklahoma, Godspell, and The Sound of Music; country songs from "Stop and Smell the Roses" to "Daddy Sang Bass," old-fashioned hymn tunes, including "Rock of Ages" and "Bringing in the Sheaves," Sunday school favorites such as "The Bible Tells Me So" and "I Love to Tell the Story;" popular songs from "Id Like to Teach the World to Sing" to "Let It Be;" folk singers favorites, including "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "If I Had a Hammer;" patriotic hymns such as "America the Beautiful" and "This Land Is Your Land;" plus many, many more.