Upstream
Language:
English
The strong men keep coming on.
They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
The strong men they keep coming on.
The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea,
a great prairie, a long mountain.
Call hallelujah, call amen, call deep thanks.
The strong men keep coming on.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Carl Ernest Bricken (1898-1971)
, "Upstream"
by Celius Dougherty (1902-1986)
, "Upstream", published 1960.
by Edwin Earle Ferguson (1910-)
, "Upstream", published 1965.
by Sergius Kagen (1909-1964)
, "Upstream", published 1950.
by Wray Lundquist
, "The strong men", published 1958.
by Albert Hay Malotte (1895-1964)
, "Upstream", published 1937.
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