The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #81246   Message #1486579
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
17-May-05 - 11:58 AM
Thread Name: Suggestions? Good acapella tune?
Subject: RE: Suggestions? Good acapella tune?
I've been tremendously impressed with The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood, a poem by Richard Farina, set to the tune of My Lagan Love. This is gorgeous!

THE QUIET JOYS OF BROTHERHOOD
(Richard Farina)

The gentle tides go rolling by
Along the salt sea strand
The colors blend and roll as one
Together in the sand
And often do the winds entwine
To send their distant call
The quiet joys of brotherhood
Where love is lord of all

The oak and weed together rise
Along the common ground
The mare and stallion light and dark
Have thunder in their sound
The rainbow sign, the blended flood
Still have my heart enthralled
The quiet joys of brotherhood
And love is lord of all

But men have come to plow the tide
The oak lies on the ground
I hear their tires in the fields
They drive the stallion down
The roses bleed, both light and dark
The winds do seldom call
The running sands recall the time
When love was lord of all

I looked first in the DT, and the song is there, but with a number of errors, which are corrected in the above.

Dave Oesterreich