What I like about this song is that it starts out with two parts and then during the middle, it splits into three. I sang this in my high school choir. It's such a BEAUTIFUL song. These ladies did an EXCELLENT job.
I sang this with choir at music camp. I went on to sing as a solo for contest, and again during our spring concert. To this day, it's one of my favorites. So beautiful.
@@saysikern8180 Yes, but it's from the big sex poem part of the bible "the song of songs." Some of the imagery is ...odd. Would you compare someone's breasts to fawns? Or eyes to doves? It's quiet reasonably interpreted racially today ... but in the text it's more ... cinderella-y with the "love"'s mean brother's making her go work outside to work their lands making her darker than other girls. A modern racial allegory make sense today ... but it's possible that in it's time the working outside and becoming darker than the other girls would have been understood literally rather than figuratively and a sign that "my love" wasn't wealthy or has been through hard times. For much of history across many cultures the preference for fairer skin occurred WITHIN an ethnic group ... and was also related to class. A lot of the hard work was done outside in the sun which would have tanned and damaged the skin of labourers ... while the wealthy sat in the shade (notice that in white westerner culture tanned skin isn't fashionable until most work is inside and tans mean vacation!). Her lover, my beloved, in the poem is described as light-skinned, with dark curly hair with eyes "as doves" ... and with the trappings of wealth. So very cinderella-y.
