Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
Aaron Copland * Track #3 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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Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? by Aaron Copland
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This is Copland’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem by the same name, with a few errors in the text and some repeated phrases of Copland’s.
Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? Lyrics
Why — do they shut Me out of Heaven?
Did I sing — too loud?
But — I can say a little “minor”
Timid as a Bird!
Wouldn’t the Angels try me —
Just — once — more —
Just — see — if I troubled them —
But don’t — shut the door!
Don’t — shut the door!
Oh, if I — were the Gentleman
In the “White Rose” —
And they — were the little Hand — that knocked —
Could — I — forbid?
Could — I — forbid?
Could — I — forbid?
Why — do they shut Me out of Heaven?
Did I sing — too loud?
Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? Q&A
Who wrote Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?'s ?
Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? was written by Emily Dickinson & Aaron Copland.
When did Aaron Copland release Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven??
Aaron Copland released Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? on Thu May 18 1950.