Simple Gifts
Joseph Brackett
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Simple Gifts by Anonymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.
Several Shaker manuscripts indicate that this is a "Dancing Song" or a "Quick Dance." The references to "turning" in the last two lines have been identified as dance instructions. The melody was used by Aaron Copeland as the basis for Appalachian Spring. (summary by Wikipedia and David Lawrence) (0 hr 11 min)
Chapters
| Simple Gifts - Read by ALC | 0:47 | Read by Anna Clarkson |
| Simple Gifts - Read by DL | 0:43 | Read by David Lawrence |
| Simple Gifts - Read by GHS | 0:47 | Read by Algy Pug |
| Simple Gigts - Read by JB | 0:41 | Read by JemmaBlythe |
| Simple Gifts - Read by LAH | 0:48 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| Simple Gifts - Read by LLW | 0:47 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| Simple Gifts - Read by MLR | 0:47 | Read by Melissa Ranum |
| Simple Gifts - Read by MOE | 0:51 | Read by Mihai Ovidiu Enache (MOE) |
| Simple Gifts - Read by NJB | 0:56 | Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater |
| Simple Gifts - Read by RN | 0:53 | Read by ravenotation |
| Simple Gifts - Read by SD | 0:51 | Read by summerdaze |
| Simple Gifts - Read by TDO | 0:43 | Read by Tracy Osborne |
| Simple Gifts - Read by VCF | 0:49 | Read by Vicente Costa Filho |
| Simple Gifts - Read by VG | 0:46 | Read by Victoria Grace |
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