Going to Heaven!
Aaron Copland * Track #11 On Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Album Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
- #1Nature, the Gentlest Mother
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- #2There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
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- #3Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
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- #4The World Feels Dusty
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- #5Heart, We Will Forget Him!
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- #6Dear March, Come In!
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- #7Sleep Is Supposed to Be
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- #8When They Come Back
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- #9I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
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- #10I’ve Heard an Organ Talk Sometimes
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- #11Going to Heaven!
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- #12The Chariot
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Going to Heaven! by Aaron Copland
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This setting of the Emily Dickinson poem is perhaps the most popular item in Copland’s informal song cycle dedicated to her work.
Going to Heaven! Lyrics
Going to heaven!
Going to heaven!
Going to heaven!
I don't know when
Pray do not ask me how,--
Indeed, I'm too astonished
To think of answering you!
Going to heaven!--
Going to heaven!
How dim it sounds!
And yet it will be done
As sure as flocks go home at night
Unto the shepherd's arm!
Perhaps you're going too!
Who knows?
If you should get there first
Save just a little place for me
Close to the two I lost!
The smallest "robe" will fit me
And just a bit of "crown";
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home
Going to heaven!
Going to heaven!
I'm glad I don't believe it
For it would stop my breath
And I'd like to look a little more
At such a curious earth!
I am glad they did believe it
Whom I have never found
Since the mighty autumn afternoon
I left them in the ground
Going to Heaven! Q&A
Who wrote Going to Heaven!'s ?
Going to Heaven! was written by Emily Dickinson & Aaron Copland.
Who produced Going to Heaven!'s ?
Going to Heaven! was produced by Aaron Copland.
When did Aaron Copland release Going to Heaven!?
Aaron Copland released Going to Heaven! on Thu May 18 1950.