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Five Ambo Ghost Songs
1986

SATB chorus

duration 4'

first performance:
The BBC Singers, cond. Simon Joly
The Almeida Festival, London / May 23, 1986

SCORE  
The Dove Stays in the Garden
I Have No Rattles
The Ghost is Gone in Rags
See How it Circles
Ah! the Roofs

TEXTS
The Dove Stays in the Garden
The dove stays in the garden
Oh you dove
Oh that dove


I Have No Rattles
I have no rattles
am shabby
for the shades


The Ghost is Gone in Rags
The ghost is gone in rags
The ghost is gone in rags
And the ghost in rags
The ghost is gone in rags


See How it Circles
See how it circles
The airplane on its airdrome


Ah! the Roofs
Ah! the roofs
She climbs the roofs
The boy sleeps in the bush
This is like a swing

anonymous (Zimbabwe) trans. Bronislaw Stefaniszyn