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Susan Savia: Listen to Music

FAIRY VISIONS (DREAMS)

(Copyright 2006 ~ Susan Savia, Music and Arrangement, based on a song written by W. Lowell Phillips, c. 1880)
2006-12-01
The first song on the CD, you start your morning by dreaming. I found Fairy Visions in an old music book and have been playing it for years. Upon arriving in the studio, I changed the arrangement for the CD, and created harmonies for it -- kind of reminds me of the Greek mythological Sirens. Or "thoughts breathed by angels to mortals on earth"....

So, which reality is more real, dreaming or awake?
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....
Fairy-like visions of heavenly birth
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....

Thoughts breathed by angels to mortals on earth
Thoughts breathed by angels to mortals on earth
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....

Oft through the mind of the wanderer ye stray
In fancy we rove through bright scenes of our life
With friends of our heart who are far, far away
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....

Oft through the mind of the weary ye creep
Fairy-like visions that haunt us in sleep
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....

Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....
Oft from bright visions the heart wakes to weep
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....

Solace of sorrow, companions of sleep
Solace of sorrow, companions of sleep
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....

Thy magic restores the fond feeling of youth
When roving at eve by some murmuring rill
And heard friendship’s vows and believed in their truth
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....

To the aged and wayworn bright scenes ye portray
Of life’s blissful hours, of friends fondly prized
But like all things lovely ye soon pass away
Dreams..... Dreams..... Beautiful Dreams.....