What Is Life?

Theme Song of Blue Mountain Mill.
A 1937 popular song.
Words and music by Donald Heins.


Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

What is life?
Is it a pilgrimage we make
As in a dream
From which we soon shall wake to happiness?
Is it a well?
So deep that few may penetrate
Its gloomy caverns, nor relate
What may be known to them alone
Life is a mill turning slowly
Grinding small turning patiently
Its life is giv’n for all


Sung here by Vancha March: