New Feet (Salem, MA 2002)

This is a pretty solid draft of the fourth song to be completed which will be first in the series. All of the performance indications are missing. Sorry.

Here is the text:

New Feet  [By Carl Sandburg, from Shenandoah in the collection Cornhuskers]

Empty battlefields keep their phantoms.
Grass crawls over old gun wheels
And a nodding Canada thistle flings a purple
Into Summer's southwest wind,
Wrapping a root in the rust of a bayonet,
Reaching a blossom in the rust of shrapnel.

Again, I would suggest following the Sibelius score so that you have some hope of understanding what text goes with which moment.    

• New Feet -- MP3
• New Feet -- Sibelius Score
• New Feet -- General MIDI file