Easter Lily

At Easter time, we are known for our fun, light, cute, and silly songs about bunnies and eggs. (Hey, it's a tough subject for a secular school setting.) This year, we decided to approach the holiday a little differently. Assuming that older students also like to sing about Easter, you may feel bunny songs are too youthful for them. The song "Easter Lily" has a bit more maturity to it. In fact, we found that our older girls enjoyed singing it very much. However, it's also a simple enough song that you could use it with very young singers as well. The syncopation is something we use often, even with our youngest singers. If your singers sing along with the recording, we suspect they will have no trouble at all learning the rhythms.

Once again, Sandy Williams is in fine form, this time playing nylon guitar. We think this particular recording is pretty nice thanks in part to Sandy, and also to the flute and flugel countermelodies played by Jim Farrelly and Larry Wiseman. However, the piano part is quite playable, in case you want to do the piece live. If so, you may want to have other instruments playing the cued parts, especially the guitar solos.

During the last few measures of the song, we recommend you have a presentation of at least one Easter Lily to a selected recipient in the audience. Have your presenter standing out of sight at the ready on your cue. You could also have multiple presenters and multiple recipients, if the occasion calls for it. Expect smiles and applause.