Lyr Add: Musical Residuum of Mosquesitting

Subject: Lyr Add: As-salaam aleikum
From: Haruo
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 02:13 AM

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)

to be continued...

Liland

Subject: Lyr Add: Shalom Chaverim
From: Haruo
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 02:19 AM

Shalom Chaverim

Shalom chaverim, shalom chaverot,
Shalom, shalom!
Lehitraot, lehitraot,
Shalom, shalom!

literalistically, "Peace, comrades, peace, she-comrades [?! comradettes??], peace, peace! Au revoir, auf Wiedersehen, peace, peace!"

Liland

PS: My apologies if that is already in the DT; I didn't see it. A search for "Shalom" only turned up "Dona Dona".

Subject: Lyr Add: Allah (God)'s chilluns got wings
From: Haruo
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 02:29 AM

and finally, to "I got a robe":

Allah (God)'s chilluns got wings

1. I got wings; you got wings;
   Allah (God)'s chilluns got wings!
   When we get to hebben gonna
   
   strap on our wings'n gonna
   
   flap round Allah (God)'s hebben.
   
   Hebben, hebben.
   
   Everybody talkin' 'bout hebben ain't* goin' dere,
   
   Hebben, hebben.
   
   Gonna zoom through Allah (God)'s hebben.



2. I got wingtips; you got wingtips;
   Allah (God)'s chilluns got wingtips!
   When we get to hebben gonna
   
   put on our wingtips, gonna
   
   waltz all over Allah (God)'s hebben.
   
   Hebben, hebben.
   
   Everybody talkin' 'bout hebben ain't* goin' dere,
   
   Hebben, hebben.
   
   Gonna prance through Allah (God)'s hebben.

* * it's just a song; my personal belief is that, ultimately, heaven is for all. If you are uncomfortable with the exclusivity of the song as written, try substituting "be" for "ain't".

Okay, so you try sitting in front of a mosque all by your lonesome from midnight to six am and see what it does to your creative juices! ;-)

Liland

PS: I'll admit I also sang a lot of Christian hymns that morning (mainly "Come Away to the Skies", "Come, O thou Traveler Unknown", "His Voice as the Sound of the Dulcimer Sweet", and "How Firm a Foundation", plus several runs through as many verses of Abdul Abulbul Amir as I could recollect. But I had to get off my butt and go down on the public sidewalk to sing the overtly Christian stuff, so as not to violate the intent of the sign over the door (see link above).

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Musical Residuum of Mosquesitting
From: chico
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 11:56 PM

      Am             E7 Am  
  Shalom, chaverim, shalom, chaverim,                Greetings, o my friends,
   E7 F     G C (E7)
  shalom, shalom;
     Am       E7   Am
  L'hitra'ot, l'hitra'ot,                                 Till we meet again,
   E7 Am   E7 Am
  Shalom, shalom.
  
    
  Glad tidings we bring, 
  Of peace on earth, good will to men
  
  Of peace on earth, of peace on earth
  Goodwill toward men, goodwill toward men, 

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Musical Residuum of Mosquesitting
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:23 AM

Does anyone have an origin or early source for this song? How old is it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Musical Residuum of Mosquesitting
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:28 AM

Hmmm, this may get lost- I think I'll start another thread here!