Soprano Soloist.
Erin Berg is a soprano on a mission. These are some demo recordings made around 2000 that we thought were lost. Erin has sung with many choirs in the Twin Cities area and currently sings with the Minnesota Chorale. She is also a gifted soloist with a love of traditional hymns.
Story behind the song
One of Erin's favorite solo pieces.
Lyrics
Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new,
Good pennyworths but money cannot move,
I keep a fair but for the fair to view,
A beggar may be liberal of love.
Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true.
Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again,
My trifles come as treasures from my mind,
It is a precious jewel to be plain,
Sometimes in shell the Orient's pearls we find.
Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain.
Within this pack pins, points, laces and gloves,
And divers toys fitting a country fair,
But in my heart, where duty serves and loves,
Turtles and twins, Court's brood, a heav'nly pair.
Happy the man that thinks of no removes.
