Simple Gifts
Author(s): Joseph Brackett
Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)
Narrators: Anna Clarkson, David Lawrence, Algy Pug, JemmaBlythe, Lee Ann Howlett, Leonard Wilson, Melissa Ranum, Mihai Ovidiu Enache (MOE), Nicholas James Bridgewater, Ravenotation, Summerdaze, Tracy Osborne, Vicente Costa Filho, Victoria Grace
Number of Chapters: 14
Length: 11 minutes
Language: English
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)