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Thread #42392 Message #615673
Posted By: Haruo
24-Dec-01 - 02:13 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Musical Residuum of Mosquesitting
Subject: Lyr Add: As-salaam aleikum
A week ago, on the festival of 'Id al-Fitr (Arabic for "Breakfast" - sorry, I was kidding) our Seattle Council of Churches mosquesitting duties came to an end. So now I have posted a couple of songs that came to me in that process on my website, and thought I would share them here. The first is As-salam' alejkum (tune: Old Time Religion):
As-salaam aleikum, as-salaam aleikum, As-salaam aleikum! U aleikum salaam!
(which is ever so slightly reminiscent of the Israeli round, found in many current Christian hymnals of the highbrow varieties, e.g. the 1990 Presbyterian Hymnal, Shalom, Chaverim)