The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39307   Message #558599
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
25-Sep-01 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: Sing With Me
Subject: RE: Sing With Me
Alice, "None But One" is the title song for the CD, "Non But One/High Hills and Mountains, which is a combo of two albums. NBO is just a little poem I made and set to an sdaptation of the melody, "Nonesuch."

Across the fields there moves a sway,
It moves with human sound;
And some do walk and some do run-
Some fall upon the ground...
And some do stop to help the weak,
Some trample on the others;
And some do laugh and some do weep
And all of them are brothers.

And sounding all around a sound
Around and everywhere-
And none but one can understand,
And none but one can hear...
I mine and I thine, father, mother, son,
I me and I thee, and all of us are one.

I saw four travellers in a dream,
All in the wind and weather.
The chain they carried in their hands
It bound them all together.
And one was yellow, one was red
And older than the others,
And one was black and one was white-
And all of them were brothers.

And sounding all around a sound (etc.- use this as chorus- it is higher in the scale than the verse, and not part of the regular,"Nonesuch" tune). Love to all, Jean