The Sum Of All Delight - Single

by Mark Davenport

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The second single from Colorado singer-songwriter Mark Davenport's album "Joyful Sighs & Soulful Hymns," also features Grammy Award-winning guitarist David Snider and drummer Christian Teele. Following the concept of the other songs on Davenport's new CD, which draw on renaissance hymns and sonnets, "The Sum Of All Delight" is based on an anonymous poem originally found in a manuscript of music by Tobias Hume (c. 1605). For full album discography and downloads click on links (upper right) for CD Baby, Amazon and iTunes.

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Lyrics:

The Sum of All Delight
Words & Music © 2013 by Mark Davenport (ASCAP)
Words on a poem by unknown author (c 1605)

I’ll never change one note
Long, long sung by rote
And though love may repose
In time she will disclose
And when love doth come
She is the perfect sum

O’ love, they wrong you much
When your fruit is such
Some call thy bittersweet
But there’s no better sweet
And when love doth come
She is the perfect sum

Of all delight
So I sing and so I write
For I have no other choice
Either pen or voice

How I do adore
Forever fall before
You fuel the fire
And you open up my heart

O’ love, your charm is such
Long, long for your touch
And when love doth come
She is the perfect sum

Of all delight
So I sing and so I write
For I have no other choice
Either pen or voice

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released January 8, 2014
Recording Info:

Vocals/ keyboards recorded at Landmark Sound in Louisville, CO by Mark Davenport.

Guitars/ electric bass recorded at Snider Sound Studio, Paonia, CO by David Snider.

Drums/ percussion recorded at Far and Away Studios, Boulder, CO by Geoff Gray.

Produced and mixed by Mark Davenport/Landmark Sound, Louisville, CO.

Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, CO.

Cover art (an Italian renaissance fresco by Melozzo da Forli), photographed by Mark Davenport.

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Mark Davenport Louisville, Colorado

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