19 Sep 01 - 08:07 PM (#554439) Subject: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: GUEST,1mouse I know, I know, I could go home and retype them out of "Rise Up Singing," but I hoped to find Pete's lyrics here or otherwise on line. Does anyone know of a site where they are already written out so I can just forward them to someone who asked ME for them, please? Yes, I admit to being lazy. But we were singing the old traditional verses over the weekend, and I realized how much I love Pete's. Thank you! Old Hundred in the Digital Tradition(not the Seeger version) |
19 Sep 01 - 10:28 PM (#554544) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: GUEST,GUEST I questioned why you say your self to be as a rodent and thief if your werent so ignorent and lazy you could have found them for yourself http://encyclopediaindex.com/b/seegr10.htm |
19 Sep 01 - 10:47 PM (#554556) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: GUEST On the Alan Seeger web page? Rodent though I might be, it's not there. It is however dinner time (I have been at this desk for 11 hours which is 3 too many and it is time for dinner.) I did find references to the recorded song, but not there. I did search for "Pete Seeger" and "Old Hundred" but came up with mostly references to the song and not the lyrics. And Mouse is a gray cat. |
20 Sep 01 - 02:27 AM (#554664) Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: OLD HUNDREDTH (Pete Seeger) From: Lin in Kansas Interestingly, the version here in the DT doesn't have Seeger's verses, nor even all the verses given in RUS. So for the sake of completeness, here is "Old Hundredth" as given in Rise Up Singing, including "new words by Pete Seeger." Chords: D-AGD DAD--/D—ABm GDA—DADAD GABm--/D—AG DAD— All people that on earth do dwell Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell Come ye before Him and rejoice The Lord, ye know, is God indeed Without our aid He did us make We are his flock, He doth us feed And for His sheep He doth us take O enter then His gates with praise Approach with joy Hi courts unto Praise, laud, and bless His name always For it is seemly so to do For why? the Lord our God is good His mercy is forever sure His truth at all time firmly stood And shall from age to age endure Praise God, from whom all blessings flow Praise Him all creatures here below Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Words attributed to William Kethe, 1561 Music by Louis Bourgeois, 1551 (Geneva Psalter) Also known as The Doxology, a paraphrase of Psalm 100 _________________ OLD HUNDRED Chords: D DA GD D A D - / - - AD G D A – D AD AD G A D - /D DBm Em D A D All people that on earth do dwell Sing out for peace 'tween heav'n and hell 'Tween East and West and low and high Sing! peace on earth and sea and sky Old Hundred you've served many years To sing one people's hopes and fears But we've new verses for you now Sing peace between the earth and plow Sing peace between the grass and trees Between the continents and the seas Between the lion and the lamp Between young Ivan and young Sam Between the white, black, red and brown Between the wilderness and town Sing peace between the near and far 'Tween Allah and the six-pointed star The fish that swim, the birds that fly The deepest seas, the stars on high Bear witness now that you and I Sing! Peace on earth and sea and sky Old Hundred, please don't think us wrong For adding verses to your song Sing peace between the old and young 'Tween every faith and every tongue New words by Pete Seeger Copyright 1985 Sanga Music Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Seeger uses the 2nd version of chords above and calls this "Old Hundred." For 4-part harmony arrangement by Pete see Sing Out! 31-4 and his forthcoming songbook. ABC Notation below is from Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopedia, Vol. II.
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20 Sep 01 - 02:35 AM (#554668) Subject: LYR ADD: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: Lin in Kansas P.S. ABC notation included because the "Click to Play" in the DT gives me an "invalid file format". Lin |
20 Sep 01 - 08:29 PM (#555306) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: GUEST,1 mouse We, and the group who will now be singing these wonderful words, thank you. |
21 Sep 01 - 01:51 PM (#555954) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: Lin in Kansas You're welcome! :>) Lin |
29 May 04 - 09:16 PM (#1196849) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lin in Kansas gave the early history of "Old Hundredth" Here is a little more on this famous old song. The tune was given English words and published in a psalter (Book of psalms) prepared by Henry Ainsworth and published in Amsterdam in 1612. The Ainsworth Psalter and the Bible were the only books the pilgrims brought with them when they came to America from Holland. Longfellow, in "The Courtship of Miles Standish," describes Priscilla- "Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Rough-hewn angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard, Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses." Words to the first verse differ from those given in Cyberhymnal, (Kethe's words from the Genevan Psalter and copied in the Ainsworth Psalter): All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Serve Him with mirth, His praise forth tell; Come ye before Him and rejoice. 'Mirth,' not 'fear' Thomas Ken, 1709 (1674?), wrote these well-known words to the Old Hundredth (Doxology) (the last verse of his longer hymn, "Awake, My Soul, and With the Sun"), using the Bourgeois tune from the Genevan Psalter: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Seeger did an excellent job. Do we need another slight revision for today? |
29 May 04 - 10:44 PM (#1196873) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: masato sakurai From earlier editions: The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into Englishe metre by T. Sternhold, W. Whitingham, I. Hopkins, and others: conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall. Newly set forth and allowed to be song of all the people together, in all chu. (London: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, 1583, pp. 272-73) The Whole Booke of Psalmes: With The Humnes Evangelicall, and Songs Spiritual (1621, Psalme 100) |
29 May 04 - 10:56 PM (#1196878) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: Q (Frank Staplin) Masato, is the Ainsworth Psalter printed in Amsterdam available on the internet? I think it should be, but couldn't find it. I see the English psalters use 'fear' in the first verse, not mirth. |
29 May 04 - 11:02 PM (#1196881) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: The Fooles Troupe Lin in Kansas - http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/afostes/miditext.html as linked above is not there anymore. The version of the midi file linked to referred to above http://media.mudcat.org/MIDI/OLDHUND.MID (313 bytes downloaded) gives an error that it is not compatible with any of my midi players - is it corrupted? (see also http://help.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=2559&messages=25) Robin
-Joe Offer- |
30 May 04 - 12:16 AM (#1196913) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: masato sakurai Q, I'd like to see the Ainsworth Psalter, too. It hasn't been found on the net so far. I'm thinking of getting this monograph (from here): The Music of Henry Ainsworth's Psalter (Amsterdam, 1612) |
30 May 04 - 07:17 AM (#1197020) Subject: Lyr Add: PSALM 100 (from Bay Psalm Book) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Seems odd that it isn't on line. Its successor with the Pilgrims, the Bay Psalm Book, Cambridge, Mass., Stephen Day 1640 ("Whole Booke of Psalmes...," first book printed and entirely written in the Colonies) is in e-text here: Bay Psalm It gives this for Psalm 100 (Book 4): A psalm of praise 1 Make ye a joyful sounding noise unto Jehovah, all the earh: 2 Serve ye Jehovah with gladness: before his presence come with mirth. 3 Know that Jehovah he is God, who hath us formed it is he, and not ourselves: his own people and sheep of his pasture are we. 4 Enter into his gates with praise, into His courts with thankfulness: make ye confession unto him, and his name reverently bless. 5 Because Jehovah he is good, for evermore is his mercy: and unto generations all continue doth his verity. Note 'mirth,' not fear, in this text. This website does not photographically reproduce the original. |
30 May 04 - 10:07 AM (#1197076) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: masato sakurai The Bay Psalm Book (facsimile edition, University of Chicago Press, 1956) looks like this (long s's are used): Psalme 100. |
30 May 04 - 12:40 PM (#1197114) Subject: Doxology From: Joe Offer The Doxology is actually only the last verse ("Praise God from whom all blessings flow..."), an additional prayer of praise added to the end of Psalm 100. Here are some other well-known doxologies: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be World without end. Amen. Through him, with him, and in him, In the unity of the Holy Spirit All glory and honor is yours, almighty Father Forever and ever. Amen. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory Forever and ever. Amen. (doxology appended to the Lord's Prayer) It seems to me that doxologies are often Trinitarian endings to prayers that may not have originally been Trinitarian, but maybe that's just my own experience and not a general rule. -Joe Offer- |
30 May 04 - 01:43 PM (#1197144) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: Q (Frank Staplin) Interesting how mirth became fear (or v. v.) in some versions. Is there a doctrinal difference here? (asked out of complete ignorance of the subject) Thanks, Masato. The e-text of the Bay Psalm Book is in modern English, and one worries that changes might have been made by the editor. At least the first verse of '100' is not changed in meaning. |
30 May 04 - 10:06 PM (#1197438) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: masato sakurai "Voluntary on the Old Hundredth" [midi] by John Blow (1649-1708) is here. "Both Blow and Henry Purcell may have contributed to the development of this piece. Blow's arrangement of the Old Hundredth is here used as a coda." |
30 Jul 04 - 11:30 PM (#1237629) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundred Verses From: masato sakurai From Lorraine Inserra and H. Wiley Hitchcock, The Music of Henry Ainsworth's Psalter (Amsterdam, 1612) (I.S.A.M. Monographs: Number 15, 1981, pp. 114-15): Psalm 100 Showt to Jehovah al the earth. Serv ye Jehovah with gladnes; before him come with singing merth. Know that Jehovah he God is. It's he that made us and not were, his folk and sheep of his feeding. O with confession enter yee his gates, his courtyards with praising. Confess to him; bless ye his name, because Jehovah he good is. His mercy ever is the same, and his faith unto al ages. X:1 T:Psalm 100 L:1/4 S:The Music of Henry Ainsworth's Psalter, p. 114 K:F F2FEDCFGA2z2 A2AAGFBAG2z2 F2GAGFDEF2z2 c2AFGBA2G2F2|| |