Across the Stillness

Across the Stillness, The Wishboats Song

Tune
Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song), composed by Frederic Knight Logan, lyrics by Jesse G. M. Glick, in 1920. Popularized by Frank Sinatra 1941.

Primary Use
This song is sung on Main Beach the evening of the Wishboats Ceremony.

Song
Across the stillness of the lake,

We send our call of WoHeLo,

And all the silvery echoes wake,

To answer back, WoHeLo.

Across the silence of the years,

Our thoughts of joy or of sorrow,

Good deeds or evil, hopes or fears,

Shall echo back tomorrow.

Oh, ye, who bear the lofty torch,

Think thoughts of evil never.

Be mindful that each song you sing,

Goes on and on forever.

When we have passed our torch someday,

And others sing our WoHeLo,

Grant us, dear God, such lives as may,

Still echo back, WoHeLo.

WoHeLo.

1st, 2nd, 4th Verse
C                     Em              Am

Across the stillness of the lake

Dm            G7         C

We send our call of WoHeLo

C                             Em       Am

And all the silvery echoes wake

G7                             C

To answer back WoHeLo.

3rd Verse
Am

Oh ye, who bear the lofty torch

Dm                           Am

Think thoughts of evil never

Am

Be mindful that each song ye sing

Dm        G7              Am

Goes on and on forever.

Final Line
C  G7  C

WoHeLo.

Source
Sweyolakan Staff Song Books 2007 - 2010

Related Songs
Woodland Ways

Links to renditions of the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZWwFBpnNc

https://soundcloud.com/user-398493441/01-across-the-stillness-of-the?fbclid=IwAR0ugO4VotoQtHozpTiRzeOVA2hl89cRY3XUBYF0yciVmrHGXgkUypX2K2c