Roles [choral version]

by Brian Bilston

this setting is available in various choral scorings: SATB, or SSA, or SABar, or TBarB, accompanied by piano - and also as a solo song (or a piece for unison voices)

sheet music (PDF master score with permission to print or download an authorised number of copies) available via this website: GBP 1.50 per print-out

demo recording on youtube - click here

• Satsumas are the Only Fruit [choral version]
• Roles [solo version]
• A Bilstonian Christmas

He never was picked 
for the role of Joseph.
He was one of those kids
who no one noticed.

The type barely seen,
more rarely heard,
not a Herod, Innkeeper, 
Second Shepherd.

He was not asked to bring
a crown for a King,
or wings for an Angel
(no one knew he could sing).

Instead he would be 
Cow Number Four,
a Rock or a Bauble, 
or The Stable Door.

[words © Brian Bilston - used and altered by permission - music © Paul Ayres]

And now, forty years on, 
it could still make him wince,
for it seemed that his life
hadn't changed that much since.

• choral - mixed voices accompanied