Mass - 16. Gloria - Trope: Thank You (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop)
Soprano Solo There once were days so bright And nights when every cricket call seemed right And I sang Gloria Then I sang Gratias Deo I knew a glorious feeling of thank you and… Thank you…
The bend of a willow A friend and a pillow A lover whose eyes Could mirror my cries of Gloria…
And now, it’s strange Somehow, though nothing much has really changed I miss the Gloria I don’t sing Gratias Deo I can’t say quite when it happened But gone is the… …thank you…
Street Chorus Half the people are drowned, and the other half Are swimming in the wrong direction.