Four Billion Years Ms Voices Only 8 Oct 2007

Four Billion Years from "Lifetime" SATB (Melody in Alto)

                                               

Alto

1-3

3

4 4

8

Alto

mil-lion

years

12

Alto

a--

go....

Four

Birth pangs of

Four

years

We could

21

old...

26

care - less - ly 30

Now I'm

35

Alto

thrown

a- -

Four thou - sand

on Earth be - gan

four - bil-lion

bil - lion years

be last

How sad

years

Four thou - sand



            

in a line

four

it would be

bil-lion

if

years

we

                                              

al - lowed

Alto

life

  



Alto

Alto

years

       

Alto

- -

bill ion -

                         

17

mil-lion

   

   



4

by David Haines

way from

life

to - dis - ap - pear

so af - raid

sheer

ne - glect

from ev' - ry land,

that the prog - gress

from hu - man

from ev'-ry

sea...

life has made could be

a - pa - thy

Copyright © David Haines 2007

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Sop

                                                                                                                                       Four

Alto

bil-lion

Four

Tenor

bil - lion

Bass

years

years

8 Four

-

lion

years

bil - lion

years

44

Sop

Alto

Tenor

8

Bass

8

Bass

thou - sand

a -

go...

Birth

life

on Earth

be - gan

four - bil- lion

years

a--

go....

pangs of

mil

-

lion

years

four

bil- lion

years

a

go...

mil

-

lion

years

four

bil- lion

years

a

go...

bil-lion

years

bil - lion

years

Four

bil

-

lion

Four

bil

-

lion

thou - sand

mil- lion

mil - lion years

Tenor

four

years

Four

Alto

thou - sand

four bil- lion

52

Sop

     

four

be - gan

8

Bass

mil - lion years

on Earth

Four

Tenor

                                        

life

Four

Alto

thou - sand

mil-lion years

48

Sop

 

Four

Four thou - sand

bil

Four

 

years

We

may

be last

Four

thou - sand

years

years

May

be

last in

    in

four

thou - sand

mil

-

lion

years

four

thou - sand

mil

-

lion

years

Copyright © David Haines 2007





a line

 a line

            

         

55

Sop

four

years

-

old...

How sad -

           

Alto

four

8

bil- lion

years

- -

    

old...

four

bil- lion

years

   

-

bil- lion

years

How



  

old...

if

Alto

if

 

Tenor

8

Bass

if

we

we

care - less - ly

care - less - ly



sad



How

60

Sop

it would be



old...

                           four





al - lowed

al - lowed

 life,

it would be

   

How sad

     

 

Tenor

Bass

bil- lion

sad

         

life

to

dis - ap - pear

from ev' - ry

                 

life

to -

life

dis - ap - pear

from ev - ry

dis - ap - peared

from

                                 if

life,

life

dis - ap - peared

from

64

Sop

land

Alto

8 land

Bass



How sad

sea

                              land,

Tenor

from ev'-ry

land

from ev'-ry

sea

ev'- ry

sea

ev'-ry sea

How sad

How

How 3

-

it would be

if

life's -

          it would be

if life's

sad

if

life's







sad

if

life's

Copyright © David Haines 2007

                          69

Sop

me-lo - dy

Alto

ne-ver

to sound

in

a -gain

was cut

short

ne-ver

to sound

a - gain

in

was cut

short

ne-ver

to sound

a - gain

in

was cut

short

ne-ver

to sound

a - gain

in

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Alto

Tenor

 









 









  









8

Bass

fu - ture his-to - ry...

fu - ture his- to - ry...

                                   me-lo - dy

Sop

fu - ture his-to - ry...

                        8 me-lo - dy

Bass

short

                         me-lo - dy

Tenor

was cut

Copyright © David Haines 2007

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fu - ture his-to - ry...