The song “Simple Gifts” is the 1848 Shaker song written by Brackett and Village.  The song is performed magnificently by Aaron Copland.  Simple Gifts is the sound of folks pioneering through farming and industry. It is the sound of all races of people building a simple life in a rural farming town in a large, beautiful, developing country. Simple Gifts is the sound of workers farming, car manufacturing, tall buildings rising, and railways running across America.  Oviedo’s history is that of a simple, small rural town that looks like America.  Regular folk, working, gathering, and making a good decent living while creating history, and the greatest country in the world.  The song goes like this:

 

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,

And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained, To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed,

To turn, turn will be our delight, Till by turning, turning we come 'round right.