Arroyo
Mezzo-soprano
Pno.
14
Mzs.
Pno.
19
Pno.
got
ten
3
roy
dry
just flowed
There were
your
way.
days
you.
3
Those were thegood old days
when youwere
3
baked by
fed
those days
3
3
of times now for
are gone.
You sing
sun,
the
You thinkyou're donefor
Dust,
3
3
Will Rand
3
3
3
3
3
see
lain there to die
I
3
3
when things
o
Ar
andleft there to
3
carved out,
B♭ Cl.
B♭ Cl.
B♭ Cl.
Mzs.
Piano
Mzs.
B♭ Clarinet
8
= 70
Dried River Beds
by
3
rain fal lingdown,
3
3
3
3
3
3
Mzs.
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
3
3
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
3
=
down.
38
3
A Tempo
Then one
Pno.
2
3
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
down.
3
3
Mzs.
B♭ Cl.
wa ter come
day sun
grew
Those werethe
good old days.
3
clos er
shriv el ing, dy
4
ing
you saw the fall of your
life.
3
scor ching
when sun light
3
the once fer
tile
burned!
Thosedays are
gone.
Rall
3
ground
6
your rush ing slowed
wi ther ing, writh
ing,
4
gone with the
3
3
33
Mzs.
3
bath ing the ground,
28
Mzs.
23
cool
breeze.
4
gone with the
4
source of your
45
Mzs.
B♭ Cl.
54
Mzs.
Pno.
63
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
2
la ma sa
bach than
2
2
2
2
dust you came, to dust you re
3
a
noth
3
ry.
at ro phied thy bro ken
You
Left to dry,
cracked,
heart.
2
you
lain to die
lay down
from
The
Rest
3
Molto rall ( = . )
3
2
2
sun!
spoken 3
A path y
brut al
er sto
2
in drought. Left in the
knock on a resonant part of the wood on the piano 3 3 3
3
turned
wind tells of
i!
starved out
You saw thefall,
69
Mzs.
B♭ Cl.
Mzs.
rush ing!
Pno.
less wait ing,
pa
tient bath ing,
3
74
Mzs.
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
sun rays
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
98
Mzs.
B♭ Cl.
Pno.
4
stayed
the
same
shape.
noth er
sto
ry.
You
Ar
sub.
may think that
o
3
you
ver
3
3
tells of
You
wind
The
hushed, holdi
moved
You ne ver
3
left.
died.
roy
You ne
died.
3
ver
You ne
deeply felt
pon you.
91
Mzs.
up
84
Mzs.
gaz ing
= 60
G.P.
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