Give Me Hunger
VIDEO
Chanticleer
DURATION
6’45”
INSTRUMENTATION
men’s chorus or SATB (div.) a cappella
POET
Carl Sandburg
YEAR COMPOSED
2013
COMMISSIONER
Chanticleer
ORDERING SCORES
This work is published as a digital score with a performance license. The pricing is based on the number of singers in a choir:
⁃ $65: up to 20 singers
⁃ $130: 21-50 singers
⁃ $195: 51-79 singers
⁃ $260: 80+ singers
To order:
- Click on the link to email Inkjar Publishing Company
- Specify the number of singers and the name of your choir.
- An invoice will be sent to you via PayPal.
- Once payment is received, you will be emailed the licensed PDF within three business days (excluding weekends and holidays).
PERUSAL SCORE
Click here (mixed version)
Click here (men's version)
TEXT
Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming of a little love.