A song I made to honor the late, and truly great, Maddie MacNeil. I used a replica of a 1929 Ed Thomas dulcimer made by Bernd Krause and a prototype short-scale dulcimer made by Jerry Rockwell. Doug Berch played whistle on it.

Lyrics
My life flows on in endless song
Above earth's lamentation,
I hear the sweet, tho' far-off hymn
That hails a new creation
Thro' all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing
It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?

What tho' my joys and comforts die?
I know the truth, it liveth
What tho' the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night it giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging
Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

I lift my eyes; the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it
And day by day this pathway smooths,
Since first I learned to love it,
No storm can shake my inmost calm,
While to that rock I´m clinging.
Since Love is lord of heaven and earth
How can I keep from singing?

My life flows on in endless song
Above earth's lamentation,
I hear the sweet, tho' far-off hymn
That hails a new creation
Thro' all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing
It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?

Since Love is lord of heaven and earth
How can I keep from singing?