So We Go
Hymn composed by
Pat DeSimioContextual information
“So We Go” is a Celtic-style harvest hymn celebrating movement through the seasons and through life.
“So We Go” is a Celtic-style harvest hymn celebrating movement through the seasons and through life.
Tune Name
[So We Go]
Tune Name
Text Meter
Irregular
10.9.10.9
Song Composer
Pat DeSimioHymn Arranger
Composer Background information
Pat DeSimio (he/they) is a troubadour with roots, sending out songs like cottonwood seeds while using language and storytelling to make a difference where he’s planted himself. Across a life woven through with song, Pat also weaves words into plans and funding for education, the environment, and bridge-building cooperation. Pat’s songs, like his other writing, are crafted to bring people together and make the challenges of life a little easier to work through, the joys a little easier to attend to.
Lyricist Background information
Arranger Background information
Mark Sloniker (he/him) is a Colorado based musician, composer and pianist specializing in “Songs of Heart.”
Lyrics
Come as the summer turns t’ward autumn,
Come as the long-night stars climb high’r.
Come as time’s unceasing turning
Wheels us ’round, ’round the harvest fire.
So we go from daylight t’ward the night.
So we go, turning on through life.
Come as the sun turns bearded barley
From soft green to a brazen bronze.
Come as the sunflow’rs rest their heads
In the peace of sleep while the sun spins on.
So we go from daylight t’ward the night.
So we go, turning on through life.
Come as mistakes turn into wisdom,
Come as the rash become the sage.
Come as the blooms of youth grow into
The feast and seed of our autumn days.
So we go from daylight t’ward the night.
So we go, turning on through life.
Resources
Music XML and MEI and MIDI and Musescore files