Commissioned for the 2013 Oregon Children’s Choral Festival, I’ll Follow After You gives word and song to the inner feelings of love and affection all kids & adults have for their parents. It speaks of how those who love and nurture us are passing along more than they know as their life is eternally imprinted on those who they love and care for. Parents will love I’ll follow after you, kids will love to sing it and you’ll love teaching music that is beautiful, meaningful and fun to sing!
“I’ll Follow After You is another great song from Bruce & Jennifer Searl. My choir loves to sing this song because it helps them express love and appreciation for those people in our lives that have gone before us and help make us who we are and who we are to become!”
I’ll Follow After You
By Bruce & Jennifer Searl
I was once so young
Full of dreams left yet undone
seems that life had only just begun.
I could save the world
Change the sun and moon and stars
Born on wings I climbed into the dawn.
What I thought I knew
Seems so distant from the truth
But I’ve gained the things that make me last.
With each passing year
With each sweetly fallen tear
Comes a winter surely warmed to spring.
Bridge:
Each step follows you
Close as I can come
Somehow part of you
Is who I’ve become (is who I, is who I’ve become)
Chorus
I’ll follow after you, where you will go
I’ll follow after you, you’re all I truly know
I’ll follow after you, when you have gone
I’ll follow after you throughout my whole life long
In my secret heart
hidden corners of my life
there your love was set in me to last.
You were by my side
always there to stay my fear
through the storms your love has held me fast.
Bridge II:
Looking more like you
Life has just begun
Time turns all things new
Old must yield to young (old must yield, old must yield to young)
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