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live more & love more
Piping Down the Valleys Wild
BBC Singers, Dominika Mak (piano) and Owain Park (conductor) perform 'live more & love more' at BBC Maida Vale Studios
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♪Since I've gotten older♪
♪I’ve realised we all care about things that don’t really matter.♪
♪We’re just told it does♪
♪And now we’re all tryin’ to keep our heads above the water.♪
♪But what if we don’t wanna?♪
♪If there’s something♪
♪you wanna do, just do it.♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪Don’t let your head stop♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪your heart from moving.♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪If there’s someone you wanna♪
♪doo♪
♪talk to, talk to them.♪
♪doo doo doo♪
♪Who knows who we’d be♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪if we just♪
♪live more and love more,♪
♪we all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪When we’re not♪
-♪here any more,♪
-♪doo♪
-♪it all comes down to who we were♪
-♪doo♪
-♪and what we stood for,♪
-♪doo♪
-♪not what we had,♪
-♪doo♪
-♪and, not where we lived.♪
-♪doo♪
♪doo♪
-♪So when we’re told it does,♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪doo♪
♪maybe then we’ll♪
-♪see we don’t just have to keep♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪our heads above the water.♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪doo♪
-♪Not if we don’t wanna.♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪Not if we don’t wanna.♪
♪If there’s♪
-♪something you wanna do, just do it. ♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪Don’t let your head stop your♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪heart from moving.♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪If there’s someone you wanna♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪talk to, talk to them.♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪Who knows who we’d be if we just♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪live more and love more,♪
♪we all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪So hug your kids,♪
♪tell them you love them,♪
♪have some heart,♪
♪but make sure it’s open,♪
♪take that risk,♪
♪’cause time gets stolen,♪
♪maybe speak less and listen more.♪
♪’Cause life’s too short,♪
♪you only have one,♪
♪it might sound cliché,♪
♪but your life can start when you choose it to.♪
♪When you choose it to.♪
♪’Cause if there’s something you, wanna do, just do it.♪
♪Don’t let your head stop your heart from moving.♪
♪If there’s someone you wanna talk to, talk to them.♪
♪Who knows who we’d be if we just♪
♪live more and love more.♪
♪We all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪We all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪We all just need to live more and love more.♪
BBC Singers, Dominika Mak (piano), Yijia Cui (double bass), Stephen Whibley (drum kit) and Owain Park (conductor) perform 'Piping Down the Valleys Wild' at BBC Maida Vale Studios
[BBC Get Singing intro music]
♪da dap♪
♪da dap♪
♪da dap♪
♪Piping down the valleys wild,♪
♪Piping songs of pleasant glee,♪
♪On a cloud I saw a child,♪
♪And he laughing said to me:♪
♪’Pipe a song about a lamb’♪
♪So I piped with merry cheer,♪
♪’Piper pipe that song again’♪
♪So I piped;♪
♪he wept to hear.♪
♪da dap♪
♪da dap♪
♪da dap♪
♪da dap♪
♪’Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe:♪
♪da dap, da dap♪
♪Sing thy songs♪
♪of happy cheer’♪
♪da dap, da da♪
♪So I sung the same again,♪
♪While he wept with joy to hear.♪
♪’Piper sit thee down and write♪
♪and write♪-♪da dap♪
♪In a book that all may read’♪
♪da dap, da dap♪
♪So he♪
♪vanished from my sight♪
♪da da da♪
♪And I plucked a hollow reed♪
♪And I made a rural pen,♪
♪And I stain’d the water clear,♪
♪And I♪
♪wrote my happy songs♪
♪da da da♪
♪Ev’ry child may joy♪
♪to hear,♪
♪joy to hear,♪
♪Ev’ry child may joy♪
♪to hear,♪
♪to hear,♪
♪Ev’ry child may joy to hear.♪
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