We Rise Again - Leon Dubinsky/Stephen Smith - Bournemouth Male Voice Choir

Recorded live in the very dry acoustic of The Cripps Theatre at Northampton School for Boys. Musical Director (complete with chest infection) ended up on the solo as its new to the repertoire, so be gentle - he is well aware he's breathless. Lovely music, thanks to Stephen Smith for writing this men's choir arrangement.
Poet-songwriter Leon Dubinsky, who grew up in Sydney and now lives with his wife and children on a seaside property in Cape Breton's Englishtown. He's best known for his song "Rise Again," recorded by The Rankins and performed as a hymn by many church choirs across Canada. Written in 1984 as a hopeful tune for the musical The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island during a severe economic downturn.
The day he wrote "Rise Again," Dubinsky recalls, he was watching his ailing father observing his grandchildren playing in a swimming pool. Dubinsky's father had immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine, settling in Cape Breton; he would die a year later, in 1985. The words just came to him, Dubinsky says, explaining that "waves roll on over the waters / and the ocean cries" refers to the cycles of immigration and the struggles of the uprooted who must begin anew in a strange land. The immigrant's son-Leon Dubinsky-grew up at Temple Sons of Israel in Sydney, where he developed his love of music while singing in the Sons of Israel choir. (reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/...)
When the waves roll on
over the waters
And the oceans cry
We look to our sons and daughters
To explain our lives
As if a child could tell us why
That as sure as the sunrise
As sure as the sea
As sure as the wind in the trees
We rise again
in the faces of our children
We rise again
in the voices of our song
We rise again
in the waves out on the ocean
And then we rise again
When the light goes dark
with the forces of creation
In a stormy sky
We look to reincarnation to
Explain our lives
As if a child could tell us why
As sure as the sunrise
As sure as the sea
As sure as the wind in the trees
We rise again
in the faces of our children
We rise again
in the voices of our song
We rise again
in the waves out on the ocean
And then we rise again