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If I Can Help Somebody

Season 2024-2025
Performance Date February 23, 2025
Performance Year 2025
Performance Time 4:00 PM
Location Northrop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Performance Title WITNESS: Eyes Still on the Prize
Composer Alma Bazel Androzzo
Arranger David Brunner
Country United Stated
Year Composed 2010
Timing 5:50"
Performers

VocalEssence Chorus, VocalEssence Vintage Voices, Lorinda Chagnon, Emily Dyrdahl, Valton Henderson, Wilmetia Henderson, Venessa Rockwell, Jennifer Vickerman Akaolisa, soloists, Casey Rafn, piano, (WITNESS Trio (Sam Reeves, keyboard, Brian Kendrick, drums, Nii Adjetey Mensah, bass)

Text Translation

If I can help somebody as I pass along;
If I can cheer somebody with a word or song,
If I can show somebody he is trav’ling wrong,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

If I can help somebody as I pass along,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

If I can do my duty, as a good person ought,
If I can bring back beauty, to a world up wrought,
If I can spread love’s message, as the Master taught,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

If I can help somebody as I journey through this world,
Then my living shall not be in vain.
—Alma Bazel Androzza

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