How Can I Keep from Singing | World Quaker Songbook 2024

'How Can I Keep from Singing' from the World Quaker Songbook, performed by Friend and musician ‪@amyduckettwagner5764‬

The songbook is produced by the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) to bring together songs and hymns known by Quakers across the world, ahead of the 2024 World Plenary Meeting in South Africa. To find out more and download the songbook, head to fwcc.world/wpm

Follow the lyrics and sing along:

My life flows on in endless song,
Above earth’s lamentations,
I hear that sweet, though far-off hymn,
That hails a new creation.

No storm can shake my inmost calm,
While to that Rock I’m clinging.
Since Love is lord of heav’n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear that music ringing,
It sounds an echo in my soul,
How can I keep from singing?

Chorus

The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing,
All things are mine since I am his,
How can I keep from singing?

Chorus