PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
066 - You Raise Me Up
Intro
Humming with instrumental intro over entire verse
Hmm hmm hmm hmmm…
Verse
When I am down, and oh, my soul so wea-ry,
when trou-bles come and my heart bur-dened be,
then I am still and wait here in the sil-ence
(big interval, watch volume) un-til you come and sit a while with me.
Chorus 1
You raise me up so I can stand on moun-tains
you raise me up to walk on storm-y seas.
I am strong when I am on your shoul-ders
(big interval, watch volume)you raise me up to more than I can be.
[Key Change and 8 x Bar Instrumental]
Chorus 2
You raise me up so I can stand on moun-tains
you raise me up to walk on storm-y seas.
(Alternative melody) I am strong when I am on your shoul-ders
(big interval, watch volume)you raise me up to more than I can be.[Key change]
Chorus 3
(building louder) You raise me up so I can stand on moun-tains
you raise me up to walk on storm-y seas.
I am strong when I am on your shoul-ders
(big interval, watch volume)you raise me up to more than I can be.
Chorus 4
(building louder, with conviction)
(Sopranos) You raise me up ------(hold same note)
(A/T/B simultaneously) You raise me up-- so I can stand on moun-tains
(Sopranos) You raise me up --------(hold same note)
(A/T/B simultaneously) You raise me up-- to walk on storm-y seas.
(Sopranos) I am strong --------------(hold same note)
(A/T/B simultaneously) I am strong— when I am on your shoul-ders
(All) You raise me up to more than I can be.
[Tag]
(Softer and Slowing) you raise me up to more than I can be.
The music was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham, a veteran songwriter from Ireland.