Voice Holding

To The Ground

  3 
arr. Bill Kangas William Finn

    
    
 = 85

        



     
sure grow ing up I would live the life my moth er ass umed I'd

 
I was

           
8 

y   
4

 
 
live. Ver y Jew ish, ver y midd le class, and

 
ver straight.


where

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12 

 
y men
3

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              
stayed, health y men, and marr iag es were long and great.

 
health

       
17 

   
I smile. I don't com plain. I'm try ing to keep sane as the

     
       
23 

    
rules keep chang ing. Fam il ies arn't what they were. Thank

 
             
26 

 
  
                      
God there's a hus band and a child, whom I a dore. But then there's


30 

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      
       
more. So man y more. There's al ways more!

       
37 


          
Life is nev er what you planned! Life is mo ments

        

42 
2

   
     
         
you can't un der stand. And that is life! I'm

      
50 

plain. I don't a stound. I hold to the ground as the

   
   
                
55 

ground keeps shift ing, keep ing my bal ance square, try ing not to care a bout this

  
         
        
 
59 

man who
  He shared my life.
Mar vin loves. But that's my life.

  
                       
65 

Yes, that's my life! Life is nev er what you planned!

  
           
  
       

72 
2

Life is mo ments you can't un der stand. And that is life!

  2
 
            
80 

Hold ing to the ground as the ground keeps shift ing.

 2
  
   
 = 80

             
86  rall.

Try ing to keep sane as the rules keep chang ing. Keep ing up my head as my

 2
   
     
 = 75

      al  right.

91 

Ev' ry thing 
2

heart falls out of sight. be

2
will


  
   
100 

Ev' ry thing   all...


will be