Commissioned by the Education World Forum for its 2014 conference.

For June Keyte and Children’s International Voices

Give me wings
Words and music by
JOHN RUTTER

Flowing gently, but with firm rhythm +. = 60

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1. Give me
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wings, and I’ll soar like an ea gle, Bear me up, till I float in the
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blue; Give me moun tains to climb, give me po ems to rhyme, Give me

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17 mf
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dreams, and I’ll make them come true. Give me
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19 cresc. f
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hope, and I’ll build a to mor row: Build it strong, and as big as the
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sky, With a place there for ev ’ry one; We can
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