I am really a very simple person is the first piece I wrote after completing a journey by kayak and bicycle down the Mississippi River. This choral version uses solfège syllables as the lyrics for the piece, which perhaps will evoke thoughts of the old shape note singing traditions. Here is my recording of the piece, where I am singing all the parts:

Here is a score of the piece in pdf format.

I am really a very simple person is January 6th in A Book of Days.

Please let me know when you perform the piece. And you are warmly invited to support this very low-key way of publishing: