What Lyrics do these times evoke for you

Subject: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: Deda
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 12:49 PM

In the shower this morning I found myself singing,

Show me the countries where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
And I'll show you a young land
With so many reasons why
There, but for fortune, go you or I

It makes me tear up but it is also comforting in some weird way. Unlike many of you I only sing for myself, so this may be a different experience for those of you who have to consider the audience's reactions. But I'm interested in tying together the theme of music with the times.

Subject: Lyr Add: A WARNING TO CONQUERORS (Donagh MacDonagh
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 01:07 PM

A Warning to Conquerors

By Donagh MacDonagh

This is the country of the Norman tower
The graceless keep, the bleak and slitted eye
Where fear drove comfort out; straw on the floor
Was price of conquering security.

They came and won, and then for centuries
Stood to their arms; the face grew bleak and lengthened
In the night vigil, while their foes at ease
Sang of the strangers and the towers they strengthened.

Ragweed and thistle hold the Norman field
And cows the hall where Gaelic never rang
Melodiously to harp or spinning-wheel.
Their songs are spent now with the voice that sang;

And lost their conquest. This soft land quietly
Engulfed them like the Saxon and the Dane
But kept the jutted brow, the slitted eye -
Only the faces and the names remain.

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: GUEST,Dave (the ancient mariner at work)
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 02:41 PM

Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem, dona eis requiem
Dona eis requiem
Sempiternam
Dona eis requiem
Sempiternam
Requiem
Sempiternam

Merciful Jesus
Who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest
Lamb of God
Grant them everlasting rest

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: GUEST,just a nobody
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 03:08 PM

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: GUEST,just a nobody... again...
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 03:20 PM

lets try that one more time...

The song that I just can't get out of my head is "The Snipers Promise" or was it prayer...

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 03:45 PM

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=39267&messages=1

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: Gloredhel
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 08:10 PM

Oddly enough, my first reaction was not toward my relatively new fascination with folk, but toward the familiar strains of the classical music I was trained for. I also thought of Pie Jesu (the Faure, not the Lloyd Weber, but same words), and the Crucifixion, a translation from 12th century Speckled Book, set to music by Samuel Barber:

At the cry of the first bird, they began to crucify thee, o Swan! Never shall lament cease because of that. It was like the parting of day from night. Ah, sore was the suffering borne by the body of Mary's son, but sorer still to him was the grief which for his sake came upon his mother.

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: Banjer
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 08:45 PM

God Bless America, America The Beautiful and My Country Tis Of Thee are some of the songs that have been dusted off and sung around here lately.

Subject: Lyr Add: HOW WILL I EVER BE SIMPLE AGAIN (Thompson
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 08:47 PM

HOW WILL I EVER BE SIMPLE AGAIN
(Thompson)

She danced through the streets with the guns all around her,
all torn like a rag doll, barefoot in the rain.
And she sang like a child, "Too-ra-loo, too-ra-laddy!"
Oh, how will I ever be simple again?
And she sat by the banks of the dirty, grey river
And tried for a fish with a worm on a pin.
There was nothing but fever and ghosts in the water,
Oh, how will I ever be simple again?

War was my lover, my friend and companion,
And what did I care for the pretty and plain?
But her smile was so clear and my heart was so troubled,
Oh, how will I ever be simple again?

In her poor burned-out house, I sat down at the table.
The smell of her hair was like cornfields in May.
And I wanted to weep but my eyes ached from crying,
Oh, how will I ever be simple again?

So graceful she moved through the dust and the ruins,
And happy she was in her dances and games.
Oh, teach me to see with your innocent eyes, love!
Oh, how will I ever be simple again?

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: GUEST,Hotspur
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 09:58 PM

The verse from Andy Stewart's "Lover's Heart"--

I will not be a soldier Sweet music is my trade For I'd rather warm the hardest heart Than pierce it with a blade.

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 10:23 PM

Oh, Absalom, my son, my son
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son
Would to God I had died for thee, my son!
Would to God I had died for thee, my son.

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 11:13 PM

"Pleased to meet you, guess you know my name ..."

Subject: RE: BS: What Lyrics do these times evoke for you
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 22 Sep 01 - 01:09 AM

Art thou troubled
music shall calm thee Rest shall be thine
Rest shall be thine
Music, source of all gladness
heals thy sadness
at her shrine
Music,music, ever devine

LL