MARIA:<br />
My day in the hills<br />
Has come to an end, I know.<br />
A star has come out<br />
To tell me it's time to go.<br />
But deep in the dark green shadows,<br />
There are voices that urge me to stay.<br />
So I pause and I wait and I listen,<br />
For one more sound,<br />
For one more lovely thing<br />
That the hills might say!<br />
The hills are alive<br />
With the sound of music,<br />
With songs they have sung,<br />
For a thousand years.<br />
The hills fill my heart,<br />
With the sound of music.<br />
My heart wants to sing every song it hears.<br />
My heart wants to beat like the wings<br />
Of the birds that rise from the lake<br />
To the trees.<br />
My heart wants to sigh<br />
Like a chime that flies<br />
From a church on a breeze,<br />
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls<br />
Over stones on it's way<br />
To sing through the night,<br />
Like a lark who is learning to pray.<br />
I go to the hills<br />
When my heart is lonely.<br />
I know I will hear<br />
What I heard before.<br />
My heart will be blessed<br />
With the sound of music<br />
And I'll sing once more