How can you catch the wind?

written for the All Saints' Singers

Words and Music by Dan Walker

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unhurried q = 60

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  

 

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Alto   

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   
         

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Baritone

o
     
poco rubato
3

    
   
       3
legato

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        
  
      
    
  

e

   
     
Piano mp
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   

l
       

p
poco rit. A tempo

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6 mp legato

          
Sops and Altos unis.

S.    

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 How can you catch the wind? How

  


a
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     
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
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       

       

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mp

    
Pno. p mf

             
    
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10 divisi.

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S.            
   

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can you chase a whis - per on the o - cean? The warm breeze that filled the sails, that

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            
     
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     
                    
 
Pno.
        
           

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14 mf

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
car - ried them so long a - go. How do you reach the stars? How

          
     

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A.

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car - ried them so long a - go. Howdo you reach the stars? How

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S.           
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do you count their num - ber in a life - time? Those pin pricks of guid-ing light, that

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S.   
lit their way - ward jour - ney home.

         
     
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A.

lit their way - ward jour - ney home.

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  
  
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 
      
  
        
Pno. mp

 
       
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poco rubato

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3

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      
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                
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Pno.

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S.         


n
Come, and take my hand, Re - lease the ropes that keep you from drif - ting,

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A.           

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Come, and take my hand, Re - lease the ropes that keep you from drif - ting,

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Come, and take my hand, Re - lease the ropes that keep you from drif - ting,

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S.    

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         
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Come, let me show you where, be - yond the coast and out to

  
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Come, let me show you where, be - yond, be - yond the coast and out to

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mp
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       
Come, let me show you where, be - yond, be - yond the coast and out to
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      

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