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Speed Your Journey (or Va Pensiero) from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco) is one of the best loved choruses in the whole operatic repertoire. Imagine yourself in say La Scala, Milan, or the Arena in Verona. The massive audience is completely captivated by this 'song from the heart' by one of the world's greatest composers. We hope you will sing along with Giuseppe, and perhaps feel what Arthur Sullivan must have felt when he first heard this great work . . .

Speed Your Journey
(Patience; wait for the exciting intro . . .)

Speed your journey, my thoughts and my longings,
Speed your journey to mountain and valley,
Where the sweet scented air breathes a fragrance
O'er the homes that we knew long ago!
To the waters of Jordan bear greeting,
To the downfallen temples of Zion.
Oh, my country so fair and so wretched,
Oh, remembrance of joy and of woe!

Golden harps of the Prophets, oh, tell me,
Why so silent ye hang from the willow?
Once again sing the songs of our homeland,
Sing again of the days that are past.

We have drunk from the cup of affliction
And have shed bitter tears of repentance,
Oh, inspire us Jehovah, with courage,
So that we may endure to the last,
So that we may endure to the last,
So that we may endure to the last,
May endure to the last.

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