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Thread #83497   Message #1535318
Posted By: masato sakurai
04-Aug-05 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Glee Reigns in Galilee
Subject: Tune Add: GLEE REIGNS IN GALILEE
X:1
T:Glee Reigns in Galilee
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:F
B:Margaret Bradford Boni, ed., Fireside Book of Folk Song, 1947, pp. 284-85
N:English words by A.M. Dushkin
F F2 E|D A, D E|F F2 E|D2 D2|
w:1.~Glee reigns in Ga-li-lee, The Ga-lil re-joic-es;
F F2 E|(FG) (AG)|F F2 E|D2 D2||
w:The day and night_ 'round_ Lift up your voic-es.
A (A2G)|F C F G|A A2 G|F2 F F|
w:2.~Thru nights_ witch-ing dark-ness, Flutes soft-ly sound-ing, The
w:3.~Sing ho, my Ga-li-lee, O, sing on my heart-strings; __
A A2 G|A B c B|A A2 G|F2 F2|]
w:watch-man of Ga-li-lee. His watch-song re-sound-ing.
w:With gun and no-ble steed, I fear not what fate brings.
W:
W:4. Who am I, what have I
W:Without thee, my Galil?
W:Glorious Galilee,
W:I love thee, my Galil.
W:    Glee reigns, etc.
"Gilu haGalilim" (with music) is in Ruth Rubin, ed., A Treasury of Jewish Folksong (Schocken, 1964), pp. 208-09.