SIMPLE GIFTS words lyrics text TIS THE GIFT To Be SIMPLE Lord of the Dance sing along song Copland

Simple Gifts" is a Shaker song written and composed in 1848 by Elder Joseph Brackett. a Shaker hymn dance SIMPLE GIFTS words lyrics text aka TIS THE GIFT To Be SIMPLE Lord of the Dance sing along song used by Copland in Appalachian Spring
'Tis the gift to be simple
'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down
where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves
in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley
of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend
we shan't be ashamed,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning
we come 'round right.
Video & Performance Copyright (c) 2016 by Charles E. Szabo, BMI
Charles Szabo is an American singer songwriter and educator who covers old songs to give them new life and performs his originals.
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Charles (Chuck/Chaz) Szabo from Ohio, is an American singer-songwriter and cover artist of public domain songs. He specializes in lyric videos with words for people to sing along with. His recordings are mostly simple, straightforward vocal & piano or guitar arrangements. Szabo’s original songs range from love songs to songs for celebrating each holiday. His music is available on CZcams at the Charles Szabo or Szabo Music channels. On Spotify and all other streaming services (Apple, ITunes, Amazon, Deezer, etc.) he can be searched and found as Charles Szabo Music.
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[@bigmike606]

God I remember singing this song in elementary school concert

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Yes- very common

[@TheXenoBrosMC]

My fifth grade teacher would play this on the guitar while the entire class sang along... good memories.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Bobby yes! I am a music teacher and would sing this with my 5th-7th grade classes, then we would listen to a recording of Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland which used this melody. This song was in our music books. Thanks

[@emirbeganovic6433]

I am going to sing this at my 5th grade concert!

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

👌

[@rhondaallen6878]

That is so awesome. I am 52 years old now and we sang this in my 7th grade concert.

[@neighyay4941]

I sang this in my 4th grade concert

[@thanhthangly3345]

Thank you so much 🙏 for ‘’your’’ gift 🎁 today

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

You’re welcome

[@jillcampbell8019]

To live (and love!) a simpler life is to turn sadness into happiness, and cursing into blessing. Simple gifts mean more to the heart and remain long-remembered in the mind. ♥️ 🧠

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Yes thanks ❤️

[@luna-lukathetwinsluanna6116]

My mother sang this to me growing up

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

sweet!

[@elizabethmaia4680]

I love this song! Listening to it makes us feel lighter and happier than we already are.Thank you so much for sharing this precious gift with us! Thanks, Chaz Charles Szabo! God bless you forever! 💎✨🎁💖🌼🍃

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

You’re welcome. Same to you Beth!

[@aindranweniaung1724]

THE BEST SONG EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks!

[@GreyLiam]

We had to do a formation dance to this song in elementary school.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Nice!

[@evieschuessler8222]

AHHHHHHHHHHH I've only heard this played by my female chorus teacher in 6th grade! This is so strange hearing it sung by a person with a deeper voice! It's also really strange to hear them not holding "to come down" as half notes bc that's what we did when I sang it in chorus

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@spmoran4703]

I love the lyrics to this . Live simply so others can simply live.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Yes thanks

[@alexatedw]

This is the tune to lord of the dance

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Yes

[@ibnualgifarii]

I didn't even know about this song, but it's suddenly on my playlist. beautiful song tbh

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks

[@imalkadewapura9668]

I love this song 💞

[@earlkryzelpalad5731]

I love it this song 🇮🇹❤️❤️ I,m so very inspire

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

What a miraculous gift. Thank you and God bless you.

[@SZABOMUSIC]

Pedro Zaragoza Thanks!

[@brucejackson4219]

A truly inspirational song, sung here with simplicity & sincerity. I put it with two of my other favourites-THE DESIDERATA [Les Crane] and TURN TURN [ the Byrds]. All three can raise the spirits.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks. You might like my version of Desiderata? here is the link:
czcams.com/video/KaaAFUt0wJs/video.html

[@brucejackson4219]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD Thank you Charles: I'll check out the link. Many years back, I taught high school in Montreal and one of my male pupils had the family name Szabo-but I can't remember his given name.
Best etc.

[@brucejackson4219]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD Charles: now that I have read a little about you, you may [?] be interested when I say that I was a classmate of John Lennon for five years in the fair city of Liverpool. I remember him well. We were not friends-we were just in the same forms for a lot of subjects @ high school.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Oh how absolutely cool! John and Paul were huge influences on my pursuing music. I also taught high school- for 30 plus years- mostly choir

[@brucejackson4219]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD I taught high school for some ten years, One of the best lessons I RECEIVED from the experience was that quite a few of my pupils were much brighter than I was/am -I say this sincerely my friend.
I remember one of my students in Montreal-I won't mention her name-hoped to study @ The Juliard in NYC. She was both bright and a very nice person.

[@Liberty-kj8gt]

This is one of my concert songs

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Nice! Thanks

[@hollymunfordbloe4744]

Love simple gifts! Ukulele Atlanta Holly Bloe

[@SZABOMUSIC]

Holly Munford Bloe Thanks!

[@brokenpeep1234]

I was brought he by my music 🎶 teacher 👨🏻‍🏫 Richard Nelson

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks for visiting!

[@brokenpeep1234]

Oh my god you liked my comment nobody ever did that to me ILY

[@liamdeimund9070]

I was brought here by my band teacher.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Great! What instrument?

[@liamdeimund9070]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD I play oboe. We're doing a song based on this one.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

excellent- oboe is a beautiful but difficult instrument- keep up the good work

[@liamdeimund9070]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD Thank you.

[@elijahthomas2957]

Liam Deimund same here i play the alto sax

[@electro_yellow9295]

This reminds me of thanksgiving

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

yes- me too- but i don't know why?

[@electro_yellow9295]

Charles Szabo guess cuz most kids sang it before thanksgiving break lol

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

@@electro_yellow9295 interesting- i wonder why the teachers made them sing it?

[@adamfreeman8495]

such a goodsong

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Yes. Thanks

[@glitchallieplayz230]

I'm singing this for solo and ensemble soon.its a great song,I hope I do well!^^

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Keep practicing-you will!

[@glitchallieplayz230]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD thank you! That means a lot to me!^^

[@jasjjjjj]

lollll here for class

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Welcome

[@edenl9746]

We are learn this beautiful song for our seventh grade final test!

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Wonderful! Good luck and Thanks

[@Danaluni59]

Dance dance wherever you may be…

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Yes thanks

[@wooanne5669]

너무 복잡해지고 정신없는 세상..소박하고 단순한 삶이 그립다..

[@bhahn1969]

❤

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks

[@summervlogswmadss]

I’m just watching this bc i have to memorize this for music class🤣

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

👌

[@prabhavictor1502]

Same

[@SuperCoolJP]

Same

[@kieraiscrusty]

same bro like for real

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Good luck everyone!

[@kitkatgirl_9104]

I have to simg this song for region. Just hope when they change the key It's not to low or to high.

[@SZABOMUSIC]

kitkatgirl 910 good luck kitkat!

[@hollymunfordbloe4744]

Joe had right UKULELE ATLANTA HOLLY

[@SZABOMUSIC]

thanks! please subscribe

[@NoName-ei2nz]

Me listening to this as school choir geek & now... 😈

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks for watching but choir students are cool- not geeks

[@femmefuntime]

First time I heard this song was on Shining Time

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Shining time train station?

[@femmefuntime]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD yeah the tv show. I was like 6 at the time

[@delta5-126]

Simple History anyone,just curious?

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Try simple wiki

[@kindlydude]

I went to a now (almost) defunct Shaker community in Massachusetts who sold this song among others on a CD from their bookstore ...it's now run mostly as a museum to show how the Shakers lived, worked and farmed, etc. I think you could join as a family, but the women and men were separated and no longer lived as husband and wife. And basically that is why they died out. I think this song was attributed to this community in particular.

[@mountaingalhomemaker4179]

It's just the chorus though

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Want more?

[@masktestsubject8381]

How old are you now?

[@SZABOMUSIC]

65 why?

[@shriyanidemel9401]

By Joseph Brock from the Quaker Community

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks

[@shriyanidemel9401]

Thank you. I listened to a talk given on Thomas Merton about the Simplicity of living and she quoted the words. They were simply but profoundly meaningful and as she referred to this song on checking out I found the writer and the Community he belonged to. I was delighted, as the Quaker Community has done so much for society with their reconciliation programmes. Hence the Thank you to you,,

[@shriyanidemel9401]

Slight clarification please? Is there a difference in Quakers and Shakers. Joseph Brock belonged to the latter group.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Anyone?

[@kindlydude]

@@shriyanidemel9401 I went to a now (almost) defunct Shaker community in Massachusetts who sold this song among others on a CD from their bookstore ...it's now run mostly as a museum to show how the Shakers lived, worked and farmed, etc. I think you could join as a family, but the women and men were separated and no longer lived as husband and wife. And basically that is why they died out. I think this song was attributed to this community in particular.

[@Fern_Edits_]

Is this the American version or something?

[@SZABOMUSIC]

is there another? thanks! & please subscribe

[@haileyolivas7293]

Emily there is only an American version since it originated in America and was it was written by the shakers

[@Fern_Edits_]

"Dancers wherever you may be I am the lord of the dance said he and I'll lead you all wherever you may be and I'll lead you all through the dance said he" is what I remember to the same chorus tune

[@ronaldcammarata3422]

@@Fern_Edits_ That is just a set of alternate lyrics written in 1963, I believe, by someone in England. The original song, Simple Gifts, was written in 1848 by an American, Joseph Brackett. The tune from Simple Gifts was famously incuded in the 1944 musical composition, Appalachian Spring, by American composer, Aaron Copland, (and originally commisioned for dance by choreographer and dancer Martha Graham). It is a popular orchestral piece, for example, this version by the Franfurt Radio Symphony. (Simple Gifts starts around 18:35 in that version.)
czcams.com/video/KfdwgXSdcMw/video.html

[@mountaingalhomemaker4179]

I wonder if ppl know where this song is from?

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Where?

[@mountaingalhomemaker4179]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD it's a shaker's hymn

[@Nirovix]

E

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

E?

[@Nirovix]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD yes E

[@caseyrix3059]

honestly this song wasn’t bad at the start but the more i hear it the more i dread my exam :/

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Casey Rix music appreciation class?

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Casey Rix for choir?

[@melitaagic124]

🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks

[@xThatBoiChris]

Back in elementary we sang this to the whole class hella embarrassing

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Lol

[@xThatBoiChris]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD it ayy those were the good days tho wish I could relive those days again

[@pasen48]

Pistol grip

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

What’s that?

[@Ennard_664]

I’m singing this for Grade level 5 music for my singing lessons

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Excellent. Good luck with it!

[@Ennard_664]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD thank you!

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

You’re welcome

[@nightloaf4983]

Nope

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

?

[@nightloaf4983]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD sing from your heart

[@timothyshanetamares4459]

this sucks

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks. Any suggestions for improvement?

[@xoxohonna]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD nice song but I don't know about that man's voice. I don't mean to sound hateful, sorry. I like the versions with groups or choirs and if it were me, I'd go full orchestra. I like my music big. but even acapella is great with a group of talented singers. but thanks for the video.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

@@xoxohonna thanks. I can’t afford all that so it’s just me. Sorry you didn’t like it

[@kindlydude]

@@CharlesSzaboPhD You have a great voice ...& one that is resonant & deep. Many 'men' today have never developed their fully masculine voice because of all the BPA in the plastic containers used for every-day food ,,,AND the soy in that very same food.

[@CharlesSzaboPhD]

Thanks and I NEVER eat soy- it’s scary