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Memorial Day songs Related threads: Memorial Day Observance (54) Lyr Add: Land of the Free and the Home of the Brav (16) Memorial Day (46) Songs for Memorial Day (7) Memorial Day - a poem (24) Memorial Day, A Look Back (75) OBIT: Brave Quaker dies on Memorial Day (14) Lyr Add: 11:11 -- for Memorial Day (14) Memorial Day-How it was spent (21) |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LET THEM IN^^ From: mactheturk Date: 27 May 00 - 09:01 AM My favorite Memorial Day song is called "Let Them In". It has been recorded by John Gorka and David Wilcox. It is actually an anonymous poem found in a hospital in the Philippines during World War II. I wish the song was better known and used on Memorial Day and Veteran's Day. I think it's a great song, written by a great writer that we will never know.
LET THEM IN Peace, Mac. HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 29-Dec-00 |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: Pinetop Slim Date: 27 May 00 - 09:31 AM Very moving, Mac. Brings to mind Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Streets of London. I'm also thinking about Each Night at Nine, though I've only heard it once or twice. The story I got was that it would bring comfort to boys serving overseas in World War II to think they could link their thoughts with a loved one back home "each night at 9." |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: Mbo Date: 27 May 00 - 09:50 AM I knew a man called him Sam 'the Cane' Few folks even knew his name But a hero yes was he He left a boy, came back a man Still many just don't understand About the reasons we are free I can't forget the look in his eyes Or the tears he cried As he said these words to me All gave some, some gave all Some stood through for the red, white and blue And some had to fall And if you ever think of me Think of all your liberties and recall Some gave all Now Sam 'the Cane' is no longer here But his words are oh so clear As they echo throughout our land For all his friends who gave us all Who stood the ground and took the fall To help their fellow man Love your country, live with pride And don't forget those who died America can't you see? --Mbo |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: mactheturk Date: 27 May 00 - 02:46 PM Mbo, Great words! Who wrote it? Thanks , Mac |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: Mbo Date: 27 May 00 - 05:55 PM The song was written by Billy Ray Cyrus & his wife. He sings it on his debut album "Some Gave All." --Mbo |
Subject: Lyr Add: 11:11^^ From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 27 May 00 - 07:39 PM On Garnet Rogers latest album, a track called "11:11"... seems to be a traditional New Brunswick tune called Derwentwater's Farewell that he put lyrics to... (I may be wrong in that...) 11:11 Ah the glorious few are all the fewer here
For the glorious few no longer stands so straight
The heads are bowed in silence now
The taste of lost and wasted years
For the glorious few are all the fewer here |
Subject: Lyr Add: Memorial Day^^ From: GUEST,Alex Date: 27 May 00 - 07:53 PM James McCandless of Chicago wrote this musical family snapshot. It's on his CD "Sea of Freedom"
MEMORIAL DAY HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 29-Dec-00 |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: Banjer Date: 27 May 00 - 10:03 PM One that comes to mind is an old timer sung by Elton Britt, called "There's A Star Spangled Banner Flying Somewhere" |
Subject: Lyr Add: The Blue and the Gray^^ From: Susan A-R Date: 27 May 00 - 10:04 PM I still go for the song that appeared in Atlantic Monthly (??) shortly after the incident in Mississippi that started the entire tradition, called the Blue and the Gray. When we've sung it (Hardtack and Homespun, somewhere out there in mp3land) we have cut some of the verses, but here it is in all of it's victorian heart on your sleeve splendor The Blue and the Gray
By the flow of the inland river
From the silence of sorrowful hours
No more shall the war cry sever I'll go vind the author's name. The melody is also gorgeous. Susan |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: Banjer Date: 27 May 00 - 10:35 PM Look here what I found. Our own Joe Offer is responsible for this entry.... There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere. |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: GUEST,Mrbisok@aol Date: 28 May 00 - 06:39 PM The Elton Britt poem/song is populist. The words are written to appeal to surface emotion. I'm sure his song helped a lot of people thru difficult times, it reaffirmed patriotism which at the time need affirmation. It's rite in there with "O Say can you see." On a more profound level a poem which sprang from the same war which gave us our Memorial Day, is Eric Bogel's "Green Fields of France." He writes: "I can see by your graveside you were only nineteen, when you joined the glorious fallen in 1916." This pays tribute to the Allied war dead but slams the nations for making so monstrous a thing as world war. "The suffering, the dying it was all done in vain, for Willy Mc Bride it's all happening again." Elton Britt's way to to remember the fallen is to urge us to commit all, even die for our country. A better way to memoralize the dead is to question the forces at work in the world which makes this killing happen. Some hyper people out there will note some hypocricy in my celebrating an Eric Bogle song, but so be it. -- Sincerely, Harold |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: Banjer Date: 28 May 00 - 07:01 PM Beg to differ but our Memorial Day began in the form of General Order 11, issued by General John Logan on the 5th of May in 1868. It was originally conceived to remember the dead of both sides of our nation's Civil War. As for your views on patriotism, at the time that song was written, this nation's patriotism was at an all time high; no 'reaffirmation' was needed. Further if you feel that your freedoms and rights are not that important to you, I feel sorry for you. I would lay down my life to preserve mine! (And yes, even yours, whether you wanted them or not!) But then isn't that what this day is all about? To preserve the memory of those who gave their all so that we might have different opinions and not be punished for them? These forces in the world of which you speak are ancient. All through history and even before recorded history, mankind has had to struggle with powers of oppression, thank whomever you consider holy that their persistence and dedication won out! Banjer(not Hyper, just thankful for the sacrifices of our forefathers) |
Subject: RE: MEMORIAL DAY songs From: Abby Sale Date: 29 May 00 - 03:42 PM Hmmm. I like to sing "timely" sings, if I know one. That is one that somehow represents the actual day. As "Jesse James" on his Birthday or "Captain Kidd" on May 23rd, his hanging day. Or "Greenland Fisheries" on any slack day. I was (as others here, perhaps) hoping for a good trad song somehow associated with Memorial Day. Oh well. But I do have one suggestion - Clicky, "GIVE ME MY YELLOW HOSE." This is appropriate as today, Memorial Day, is our 60th or 90th (or anyway, a very Big number) anniversary and I always sing that one to "celebrate" weddings and anniversaries. Good tune, too. I'm just not sure of the correct phrase to use -- "We're Memorializing our anniversary." Or "We're in deep mourning for..." Or "We're in funery for..." Hmm...
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