I started singing in a choir,
When I was seventeen,
Knew NOT the voice I then did have,
Though I was really keen
To sing and learn the harmony
To me, seemed 'twas inate
I heard the melody, and I
Could harmonise, first rate.
Informed, was I by choir master,
"You sound like you're a bass"
So placed with some longstanding men,
To quicken up the pace
Of learning notes to harmonise,
It did not take me long
To b'able, quickly, notes to sing
Adding a depth to song.
For forty seven years, I've sung
The harmony, in bass,
So now, I hear a tune that's new
And sing my part, in place.
Have noticed though, quite recently,
The notes in lower tone,
Which once were sung quite liberally,
Are not now in my zone.
So my thoughts are, "My voice did break
At seventeen years old,
So has it now 'repaired' itself
As 'twas in former 'mould'?"
"Will I have seventeen more years
To sing in higher voice?
And then I'll maybe HAVE to stop
Been given zero choice?
At 64, plus 17,
I added in my head,
"That's 81, a ripe old age,
For this 'tree' to be 'felled'.
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