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To Stay at Home is Best (feat. Robert Espe)

from Heartland Social Distancing Music Project by Peter Roberts

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Here's the second song I made with the samples you all sent me! This one features our friend Robert Espe on Tenor Saxophone. I hope you enjoy!

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The text is "Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I thought it was very appropriate for the times since the last line in each stanza is "to stay at home is best":

Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wander they know not where
Are full of trouble and full of care;
To stay at home is best.

Weary and homesick and distressed,
They wander east, they wander west,
And are baffled and beaten and blown about
By the winds of the wilderness of doubt;
To stay at home is best.

Then stay at home, my heart, and rest;
The bird is safest in its nest;
O’er all that flutter their wings and fly
A hawk is hovering in the sky;
To stay at home is best.

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from Heartland Social Distancing Music Project, released July 12, 2020
Peter Roberts - composer, vocalist, producer/engineer
Robert Espse - tenor saxophone

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Peter Roberts Des Moines, Iowa

Pianist and electronic producer trying to capture imaginations with music.

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