Composer Amy Gordon’s original text guides us toward peace when things seem most dark. It reminds us that rest and a new day can give us the strength we need to find hope in difficult times. This arrangement would be suitable for any level of SATB Choir and would fit well into a concert about hope and triumph in the midst of trying times.

Amy Gordon is an active composer, arranger, songwriter, and vocalist based in Los Angeles, CA. As a choral composer, she has worked with and been commissioned by numerous choirs, including being the composer-in-residence for Nova Vocal Ensemble. She has also scored numerous films and webcasts. She has a BA in Composition from Loyola Marymount University and an MM in Composition from California State University, Long Beach.

Composer’s Notes

The music and lyrics of “In the Morning” began as an original song that Amy Gordon, the composer, wrote when she was 17 in 2004. It was then arranged for Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, & Piano for her undergraduate recital at Loyola Marymount University in 2008. In this arrangement, “In the Morning” has been adapted for SATB choir & piano. The hope is that this text about finding strength in the midst of hardship will bring some comfort during difficult times, including the COVID-19 crisis that rattled the entire world.

This arrangement would be suitable for any level of SATB
Choir and would fit well into a concert about hope and triumph in the midst of trying times.

Text

Things will be better in the morning
Sleep now, it’s time to go to bed
Outside it’s windy and it’s storming
Oh weary child, won’t you rest your head?

There will be hope and there’ll be laughter,
Fairytales with happy-ever-afters
And all the stories you were told will come true
And all you need to do is wait ‘til

Things will be better when it’s light out
Right now outside it’s dark and grim
So will you let me turn your light out?
Sleep now and let peace enter in

And we’ll go running on the hillside,
Run so fast that all your tears will have dried
And all the sadness that you feel will disappear
There’s nothing you should fear
Just wait ‘til

Things will be better in the morning.

– Amy Gordon

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