Social Distancing

Words and music by Alex Eddington

Written in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dedicated to all choirs trying online rehearsals - and also those choirs who aren’t or can’t, and would like a smile.

Available for free, with the request that if you can share audio/video of an online singing of this piece, you tag the composer.

3-part choir, any voices

Score for mens’ voices (treble clef 8vb, bass clef) also available.

Duration: ca. 2:30

Lyrics

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Social distancing

Means resisting

Community spreading

In choir rehearsals

Social distancing

Is insisting

On all of us singing

Together online

If we are missing

Community feeling

Of social greeting

In face-to-face meeting

Acoustics ringing

In the room where we’re singing

Chords actually blendering

Please keep remembering:

Social distancing

Not a forever thing

Only for limiting

Transmission for now

For now we’re valuing

The wi-fi connecting us:

All of us singing

Together online

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