"My Song" (1879; 1884)
[SATB vocals unaccompanied]
Words and Music
by George Frederick Root, 1820-1895

[Source: p. 65 from "The Palace of Song";
and p. 63 from "Our Song World"]

1. At my work I’m always singing,
Tho’ the day be cold and long,
For my heart’s so full of music
That I can not stop my song.

CHORUS [sung after each verse]
I am singing, I'm singing,
Tho’ the days be cold and long,
For my heart’s so full of music
That I can not stop my song.

2. I am singing of the sunshine,
Tho’ the sky is dull and gray;
I am singing of the flowers
All the chilly winter day.

3. I am singing of the garden,—
Of the roses there in bloom,—
Of a thousand things in nature,
’Mid  the winter’s sullen gloom.