Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Jande Date: 05 Aug 01 - 01:19 PM When You Walk Through a Storm hold your head up high and don't be afraid of the dark at the end of the storm is a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark!
Walk on through the wind, you'll never walk alone" Learned that in the school choir at age thirteen. It's kept me alive so far... And my own song Slow Now:
I'm movin' Slow Now
I've seen the stars at night, now
::chorus::--
I'm movin' Slow Now
I'm moving Slow Now, ::chorus::
I'm movin' slow now ~ Jande |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Art Thieme Date: 05 Aug 01 - 02:19 AM Dear Helen, Thank you very much ! That was really nice of you. Art |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: davidg Date: 04 Aug 01 - 11:51 PM "A Change is Gonna Come" the last and greatest song by the great Sam Cooke. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Dani Date: 04 Aug 01 - 10:07 PM Without a doubt, "How Can I Keep From Singing". James Taylor's "Martin Luther King"... that's not what it's called, but my tape is bootleg. It'll give you goosebumps. "Precious Lord". "The Welcome Table". Great thread. Dani
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Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 04 Aug 01 - 05:33 PM "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley "On the Road To Find Out" by Cat Stevens "Six O'Clock News" By Robin and Linda Williams Rich |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,Wayne Date: 04 Aug 01 - 04:47 PM Willie Nelson's "Healing Hands Of Time" the recording on which he is backed by an orchestra. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Peter T. Date: 04 Aug 01 - 10:32 AM "Total Eclipse of the Heart" played backwards. But seriously, "Morgen," Richard Strauss. Best song of hope rising out of ashes I know. Someone once described it as a song for those who have learned what hope means when you have no hope. yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: MAG Date: 03 Aug 01 - 10:35 PM Nancy Shimmel's "Don't let the turkeys get you Down"
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Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,MichaelAnthony Date: 03 Aug 01 - 02:08 PM Just got a chance to come back and check the thread. Great replies, keep em coming, thanks...I'll have to look a bunch of these up for a listen or at least to read them. MA |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: SharonA Date: 03 Aug 01 - 10:54 AM John Hardly: I haven't heard John Gorka's version; I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads-up! I know of at least two tunes used with "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." The version that Frank Sinatra sang is the one that always makes me tear up. More hopeful songs, on a lighter note: "Friday On My Mind" and "Five O'Clock World"! SharonA |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Helen Date: 02 Aug 01 - 10:58 PM I forgot to add Jimmy cliff's I Can See Clearly Now. Love that song - when I'm down it reminds me that life gets better, and when I'm up it makes me appreciate the good feelings. TNDARLN,
Try the http://www.cyberhymnal.org/ Helen |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Helen Date: 02 Aug 01 - 10:34 PM Guest, djh, For a taste of Art's humour, just click on his name above his posting here and it will show a list of all of his contributions to Mudcat. (Warning 1: don't drink coffee or other liquids while reading, unless you want to redecorate your keyboard. Warning 2: if you are of a delicate and PC. i.e. politically correct disposition, maybe you'd better not read his stuff.) Helen |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Art Thieme Date: 02 Aug 01 - 08:17 PM Oh, is THAT what it's about?!?! I thought it was all a come-on to get his lady over to the bed. Art |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Gareth Date: 02 Aug 01 - 07:10 PM Times have changed but a mention to Eddy Grants "On Joanna" and on a personal note The Seekers "Big Red Rubber Ball" I hope I Have the specifics correct. Gareth |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Aug 01 - 06:59 PM The one Enya recorded..."How Can I Keep From Singing?" And by Dylan...
Mr. Tambourine Man - LH |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Susanne (skw) Date: 02 Aug 01 - 05:25 PM What's the Life of a Man? |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: John Hardly Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:51 PM SharonA, John Gorka has a superlative version of "...Bells...". Have you heard it? Is that the one to which you refer? |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,Nick Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:13 PM Amazing grace has always apealed to me (Perhaps becuse I am such a wretch) My Current favorites by Great Big Sea Turn (old man see you sons and daughters no longer hesitate, and I can see the earth below me and I can feel it turn) and Ordinary Day (Way hey hey it's just an ordinary day and it is all your state of mind, at the end of the day you just gotta say it's alright!) Now there is a band with an optimistic outlook. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:00 PM A loan again naturally? Gilbert O'Sullivan. Jock |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Jim Krause Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:58 PM Bill Staines' Faith of Man Jim |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,Mike Strobel Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:45 PM My Choice is : Thanksgiving Eve by Bob Franke |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Greenbean Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:33 PM Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up" & "In Your Eyes." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,djh Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:32 PM Art, How is Cocaine a song of hope? I love the song, I perform it regularly, but, a song of hope it is not. Depending on which version you listen to the singer/addict gets shot or at least attacked with a frying pan by his girl friend, harassed by the cops, violently ill, dumped, warned that it will kill him , but, the doc won't say when, winds up on the corner with his money for his room and board gone, and/or finally laid 6 feet under the ground after that damned cocaine gets all around his brain. Unless you want to follow it with Lay My Burden Down, Cross The River Jordan , or Soon My Work Will All Be Done it is not a happy piece. "Take a Whiff on me" is at least fun and nieve enough to possibly hold some promise of false hope. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Midchuck Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:48 AM I go along with "Mary Ellen Carter" and "Turning Toward the Morning." Too close to call as between them. Some consideration should be given to "Drop Down, Mama," though. Peter. |
Subject: Lyr Add: I WISH I KNEW HOW IT WOULD FEEL TO BE FRE From: Brian Hoskin Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:13 AM Nina Simone singing 'I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free.'
And I wish I knew how
I wish I could live
Like I'm longin' to live
I wish I could be like a bird up in the sky |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: SharonA Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:11 AM Also, "It's Just Another New Year's Eve" by (please don't laugh at me for this) Barry Manilow. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: SharonA Date: 02 Aug 01 - 10:55 AM "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: DancingMom Date: 02 Aug 01 - 09:41 AM Keb' Mo' has two good ones on his "Slow Down" CD; "Everything I Need" where he sings about having nothing, then "But I'm still climbing up the mountainside, Don't count me out, Long as I got my heart and soul I got everything, I got everything I need, Everything I need. Then "A Better Man": I'm gonna make my world a better place, I'm gonna keep that smile upon my face, I'm gonna teach myself how to understand, I'm gonna make myself a better man. Great CD. Sharon |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Art Thieme Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:32 AM I'm partial to either "Cocaine" or "Take A Whiff On Me". |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,TonyK Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:28 PM Song of the Soul, as mentioned, Julian of Norwich Tulips in the Spring by Brooks Williams |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Helen Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:26 PM Ebbie, I second Whispering Hope - one of my favourites since I first played it in primary school music lessons. And also All Through the Night - it's not so much a hope song, but it is a comforting song, bringing peace. Helen |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:17 PM What great songs! Keep them coming! |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Wavestar Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:01 PM Kendall got mine. -J
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Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: John MacKenzie Date: 01 Aug 01 - 04:13 PM Outward Bound by Tom Paxton. Jock |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: TNDARLN Date: 01 Aug 01 - 03:54 PM Wondrous Love. Amazing Grace. So many hymns...Psalms 37 and 139...wish I knew the tunes they were sung to! [someday!] T |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,djh Date: 01 Aug 01 - 02:06 PM I forgot Bob Marley Three little Birds |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,djh Date: 01 Aug 01 - 02:05 PM So many.... I shall be released- B. Dylan Feelin good again - Robert Earle Keen Uncloudy Day - Trad. Doc Watson I'm gonna live on till I die- miles and Bob Pratcher I am the light- Rev. Gary Davis got my Mojo Workin - bum-bum-bu-ba workin , brrrrrrrrrrr workin - Muddy I could go on and on........... |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GeorgeH Date: 01 Aug 01 - 01:34 PM If we're going into specifics, and especially if the specific is the island of Ireland, then: Ron Kavanah's "Reconcilliation" Colum Sand's "Throw the ball against the wall" (may not be the actual title). Personally songs which just say how wonderful God's earth is (such as "Glad that I live am I"; sorry, Ian C) are more likely to induce depair than hope in me; if there's any hope to be had it has to come from our efforts to make something out of this (man-made) mess in which we find ourselves. G. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Finn McCool Date: 01 Aug 01 - 01:23 PM My favorite is Phil Coulter's The Town I Loved So Well. It's a plea for hope and healing in Derry, Northern Ireland that gives a glimpse into the lives of the ordinary working people who are just trying to get by. --Finn |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GUEST,JMR Date: 01 Aug 01 - 12:51 PM "Fashioned in the Clay" by Elmer Beal |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Ebbie Date: 01 Aug 01 - 12:46 PM If in the dusk of the twilight Dim be the regions afar Doth not the deepening darkness Brighten the glimmering star? Whispering Hope. Still one of my favorites.
So I'll go on my weary way to the end of my day He'll Welcome Me Home (Mine) Ebbie |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: SharonA Date: 01 Aug 01 - 10:57 AM Don Henley's "Heart of the Matter" ("...I think it's about forgiveness... even if... even if...") |
Subject: Lyr Add: ONE WORLD From: ScottyG Date: 01 Aug 01 - 10:37 AM This has been my favorite inspirational song ever since I sang it as my audition piece for the choral group I sang with in high school. I don't recall who wrote the words and music. One World One world built on a firm foundation Built on a firm foundation of peace What a wondrous sight, freedom's flame alight In a world where war shall cease One world built on love and peace When God smiled, bright sunlight flooded hills and planes Songbirds filled green valleys with their glad refrains All things God created, His great love to share Now let men and nations join and shout it everywhere! One world built on a firm foundation One world no longer cursed by war Let no mortal man change the master plan One great world at peace once more One world....one world....one world, at peace forever more! ScottyG |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Anglo Date: 01 Aug 01 - 10:18 AM Animaterra, re Artisan performing Mary Ellen Carter, no I missed that, (maybe wished I hadn't, they're fine singers but I don't always go for their songs) - I'm glad people are still doing it. I was singing in Vermont on the night Stan died and the only song of his I really knew was Barrett's Privateers which hardly makes an obit. I went out and learned Mary Ellen Carter and sang it at Mystic Seaport later that month. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: rea Date: 01 Aug 01 - 10:05 AM Bright Morning Stars are Rising (trad) Love Will Come to You (Indigo Girls) And I don't know if this qualifies as "hopefull" but I always feel much more peaceful and positive after singing "Bleak Midwinter" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: IanC Date: 01 Aug 01 - 10:01 AM Glad That I Live |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: GeorgeH Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:51 AM Dick Gaughan's "Different Kind of Love Song". G. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: Pinetop Slim Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:42 AM Cris Williamson's Song of the Soul |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: kendall Date: 01 Aug 01 - 06:52 AM Gordon Bok's TURNING TOWARD THE MORNING. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite song of hope? From: John Hardly Date: 01 Aug 01 - 06:50 AM Hope (Robin's Song)--as done by Small Potatos Life Is Good--Livingston Taylor It's My Job--Mac McAnally Still Believe--Susan Werner |
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