Ode to Joy - other lyrics

Subject: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Susan of DT
Date: 22 Mar 17 - 10:44 PM

When I was in elementary school (Brooklyn, 1950s) we sang a set of words to Ode to Joy that do not seem to be anywhere on Google. I remember the first two lines:

Ode to joy from Heaven descending
Hail joy all you here below...

Does anyone know the rest or where it came from? Yes, I know there are several sets of words sung to Ode to Joy, notably Jabowocky and parodies thereof.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: BobL
Date: 23 Mar 17 - 04:33 AM

Jabberwocky? That would be an awkward fit - different metre (8:8:8:6 iambic versus 8:7:8:7 trochaic).

BTW only poets measure metres in feet.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Mar 17 - 04:56 AM

Hymn set to Ode To Joy This thread may prove a good starting point.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Susan of DT
Date: 23 Mar 17 - 07:30 AM

BobL - Jabberwocky sings to beautifully to Ode to Joy. Just stretch a couple of syllables. I was trying to find you one on youtube, but there are a number of tunes people sang it to and I did not see how to limit the search to that tune. (jabberwocky ode to joy got all ode to joys with any words and ode to joy jabberwocky got all jabbowockys at any tune).

Nigel - thanx, but I did not see this set of words. Our chorus is singing the common Joyful, Joyful words, which is what got me started thinking about this.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: clueless don
Date: 23 Mar 17 - 08:34 AM

Skivee and his pal Jody once put together some entertaining lyrics set to Ode to Joy.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Howard Jones
Date: 23 Mar 17 - 10:24 AM

The party piece of the squire of a morris side I was once involved was to sing the label off a Guinness bottle:

Brewed by Arthur Guinness Son & Company, Park Royal Ltd
Extra Stout Guinness
Registered Trademark Arthur Guinness
Bottled by John Courage Ltd, London SE1
Minimum contents 9 fluid ounces
Brewed in London, England.

He was also fond of pointing out that by the time the Thames reaches London it has passed through at least 9 human bodies, before arriving at Watney's brewery.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Susan of DT
Date: 23 Mar 17 - 12:24 PM

A little more dredged up from 60 years ago:

   Ode to joy from Heaven descending
   Hail joy all you here below...
   ...
second part of melody:
   ...
   ... united
   Here we meet on common ground
   ...

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Mar 17 - 05:10 AM

When I was a student, the Oxford University Morris Men used to sing the Guinness label, but bottled by Allied Breweries, UK Ltd, Burton-on-Trent. Minimum contents 9 and 2/3 fluid ounces...

Kitty

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Mark Ross
Date: 24 Mar 17 - 09:50 AM

There is also HYMN TO NATIONS, recorded by Pete Seeger, aka, BROTHER SING YOUR COUNTRY'S ANTHEM.

Mark Ross

Subject: ADD: Ode to Joy (alt lyrics for EU anthem)
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 01:32 AM

Here are the words for the EU Anthem I sang at yesterday's session (I've also added them to the "National Anthems" thread):

ODE TO JOY
(new words ©Vikki Fielden, 15/1/19)

Let us sing in celebration
Of a union strong and free
Though we are of many nations
Europeans proud are we

As we join in joint endeavour
Let us strive for truth and peace
As our nations work together
May our friendships never cease

Let us sing in celebration
Of a union strong and free
Though we are of many nations
Europeans proud are we

Grant us grace, that we may we live our
Lives in peace and unity
And in future we may give our
Children hope and harmony

Let us sing in celebration
Of a union strong and free
Though we are of many nations
Europeans proud are we
Though we are of many nations
Europeans proud are we

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Susan of DT
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 03:00 PM

Anyone remember these lyrics yet? The song has come up again, this time as a joint effort between the steel drum and ukulele groups. I'd like to use these relatively simple words. Thanx.

Subject: ADD Version: Ode to Joy (words from Schiller)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 03:26 PM

Hi, Susan. Hope life is treating you well. I've missed you.

I did find this version in Sing Together, one of the US Girl Scout songbooks (Third Edition, 1973, page 54 - also in the 1936 and 1949 editions)

ODE TO JOY

Hail thee, Joy! All hail, divinest,
Daughter of Elysium!
We approach thy light so cheering,
To thy altar now we come.
Thou hast pow'r to bind together
What the world would rend apart,
And where-e'er thy light wings flutter,
Love and peace are in the heart.

Joy, 'tis Joy from heav'n descended
Turns unseen the wheel of live,
Joy by love and hope attended,
Leading hearts from worldly strife,
Draws the stream from hidden sources,
Stirs the seed in earth confined,
Rolls the stars along their courses,
Moves the heart of all mankind.


from Songs for Informal Singing, National Recreation and Park Association


I didn't find "Ode to Joy" in any of our school songbook indexes. I'm sure there are several versions in school songbooks, but not with that title.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 07:29 PM

The current popular hymn lyics were written by:
Henry Van Dyke.

While searching for more information from "LibrixVox.org".
Part of the Library of Congress Collection.
I stumbled upon, " Little Mansions" by Henry Van Dyke.
Van Dyke wrote the popular hymh lyrics to "Ode to Joy."

https://hymnary.org/text/joyful_joyful_we_adore_thee

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Susan of DT
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 09:27 PM

Thanx Joe. Not quite, but closer. I wonder where we got it from. Google just came up with my post here. Oh well.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: GUEST,guest, fishwife
Date: 26 Apr 21 - 12:16 PM

Always thought 'Brexit' sounded like a laxative breakfast cereal.... so, at the risk of sounding poorile......

If constipation is your problem
And you don't know what to do,
Have some 'brexit' for your breakfast
You will go straight to the loo.

Brexit, brexit, that will fix it,
Bran and prunes and rhubarb too.
Have some brexit for your breakfast:
You will do a great big poo.

I gave brexit to a hippo
Who had constipation too.
He gobbled up a tub of brexit.
Now there's loads of hippo poo.

Brexit, brexit, that will fix it, (etc...)

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: GerryM
Date: 31 May 21 - 05:46 AM

Here is a Rowan Atkinson version.

Subject: RE: Ode to Joy - other lyrics
From: Felipa
Date: 31 May 21 - 07:51 AM

The author of another Brexit complaint song posted it on Mudcat shortly after the Brexit referendum . I forget who the singer songwriter was, a Scottish woman. I hope either I or someone else can find the link.