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The popular poem by Edgar A. Guest set to music by Kevin G. Pace. A rousing vocal solo or group choral piece with piano accompaniment.

The price of this piece is set low to enable you to purchase enough copies for your choir. For larger choirs, please purchase sufficient copies (at least one copy for each two choir members).  See text below:

Watch on YouTube: It Couldn't Be Done


Somebody said that it couldn’t be done

But he with a chuckle replied

That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one

Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin

On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it;”
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure,
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
Information
Composer Kevin G. Pace (ASCAP)
Lyricist Edgar A. Guest
Level Intermediate
Genre(s) Folk, Children's Music, Americana
Instrument(s) Voice, Unison
# of Pages 3

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It Couldn't Be Done, vocal solo or unison choir with piano accompaniment

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Tags: Folk, Children's Music, Americana