Lyr Add: The Times that Try the Soul (Lorcan Otway

Subject: Lyr Add: THE TIMES THAT TRY THE SOUL (Lorcan Otway
From: InOBU
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 11:56 AM

The Times that Try the Soul
Words Lorcan Otway (with the help of Thomas Payne)
Tune... Fairwell My Love and Remember Me, from the singing of Sarah Makem.
Dedicated to Lynne Stewart and all lawyers who risk all for liberty.

Come listen my children, and you shall hear
of a land which once held rights so dear
that her people would risk death's grim pain
for a dream of rights which they hoped to gain

Chorus: These are the times, which try the soul
As you shrink from duty, the death knell tolls
And our rights are stripped for expediency
we prepare a cold grave for our liberty

What contempt for all, we once called fair
which was dragged from madness and despair
servile slavish fear, that Tories enthroned
by the acts of the free were once overthrown

Avon's Bard once warned, in days long ago
remove the lawyers, the tyrants foe
and the warlord's might, unchecked will be
Blind justice becomes, a poor refugee

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 01:33 PM

Corrections after recording the cruther...
The Times that Try the Soul
Words Lorcan Otway (with the help of Thomas Payne)
Tune... Farewell My Love and Remember Me, from the singing of Sarah Makem.

Come listen my children, and you shall hear
of a land which once held rights so dear
that her people tempted death's cold, grim hand
for a dream of rights for their infant land

Chorus: These are the times, that try the soul
As you shrink from duty, the death knell tolls
And our rights are stripped for expediency
we prepare a cold grave for our liberty

What contempt for all, we once called fair
which was dragged from madness and despair
servile slavish fear, that Tories enthroned
by the acts of the free were once overthrown

Avon's Bard once warned, in days long ago
remove the lawyers, the tyrants foe
and the warlord's might, unchecked will be
Blind justice becomes, a poor refugee

Strangers to virtue claim the Patriot's cause
while their coward servants pen unjust laws
and precious truths are entombed 'neath lies
and the dream of our liberty swiftly flies.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: Genie
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 01:04 PM

Thanks, Larry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 03:52 PM

Thanks back at you, Genie... it now opens the new Sorcha Dorcha CD, The Times That Try the Soul. I changed the name of the CD from Bitter Angry Quakers, because my Friends didn't have a sense of ironic humor, got a lot of confused looks... Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 04:02 PM

Very evocative, Larry! Thank you!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 04:41 PM

Larry,

Can't wait to hear it!


A

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 05:09 PM

Larry.....finally I'm takin' ya to task in front of the whole darn world......Yup EVERYONE'S waitin' with baited breath for you to get slagged!

PUT THE GOD DAMNED ORDER OF THE SONGS ON THE CD BOX, AND THE TIMES OF EACH SONG! NOW PUT THEM ON ANY LINER NOTES THAT ARE WITH THE CD!

You wouldn't believe how I cursed your name last year at CIUT when I was tryin' to find a certain song to play and whether we had enough time left on the show to fit it in! (yes I cursed you loud and long ON the air.....but I know how you feel about publicity ha, ha!)

So, make sure the DJs can identify what they're playin' or I'm goin' upside your head!

Rick

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: Willie-O
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 05:12 PM

I thought maybe this thread was about the song John Ashcroft wrote called "Let The Eagle Soar".

You can hear him sing it on CNN if you have a better internet connection than I do...

What the critics said (excerpted from In These Times):   Song sheets of "Let the Eagle Soar," the attorney general's ode to America, are now being passed out at department meetings/sing-a-longs. Asked by the Guardian of London why she was reluctant to join the heavenly chorus, a department lawyer replied, "Have you heard the song? It really sucks."

Maybe Toby Keith will cover it? Or if it really blows in an over-the-top fashion, Celine Dion.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 05:16 PM

Hi Rick... I actually DID figure out the order, at last on Nil Sasta... and I corrected the order with a sticker on the back, I will add times, and send you TWO new CDs, the corrected first and the second! I am humbled, and can only say, if I could figure out simple sets, I would have become an egg head mathamatician like my brother and most likely become a "serrious" musican like my bubba, playing clasical music, and well... I really am sorry, I need a keeper.
Cheers and thanks for the air play,
Larry
Serriouly sorry...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 05:36 PM

Well as long as you're sorry......will you be my Butler for a week?

Does ANYONE get that joke?

Cheers

Rick

Actually, on a serious note...the list of songs, the cut numbers and the times should be on every album TWICE. Why? Cuz the engineer may have the CD box and CD, and the DJ may have the liner notes. They both need to know the info.

Cheers.....no behave Larry.

Rick

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 05:37 PM

Thanks Rick: I am figuring this stuff our as I go along, so I really am very thankful for the advice and correction. Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 06:13 AM

By the by, I am working on a one man show, tieing my historical ballads into a description of what we have lost in America this year... I am casting about for a title which reflects musical conversations with Tom Paine... in the first draft it starts with this song, The Times That Try our Souls, then, breif intros to the next ballad in their historical context... so... after the first song...

If these Patriot Acts are American Patriotism, I am proud to be seditious in the spirit of Thom Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklynn, Christopher Atticus, ... Seditious in the Spirit of Levi Coffin, of Fredrick Douglas, of Walt Witman...

Few of us working on local New York political campains thought, as we left our homes, in the dark of the eairly morning of September Eleventh, that this was the first morning of the 21st Century, or that this dawn, was the dawn of the final struggle of the American Revolution... but today, as I sit at my desk, haunted by the spirit of Thomas Paine, I know that we are the generation defined not only by the titanic loss of life and comfidence, but by the challenge to keep the flame of the American Revolution burning in the face of fear, no..., in the face of cowardice.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 10:50 AM

Butler joke? Anyone?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 09 Mar 03 - 03:53 PM

Duuno Rick, ya mean the Sienfield episode?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: Hrothgar
Date: 10 Mar 03 - 05:56 AM

Larry, is there a song about John Adams and the defence of the troops involved in the Boston Massacre?

Can't help comparing the Adamses, father and son presidents, with the Bushes...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 10 Mar 03 - 07:22 AM

AND! Sam Addams defence of the Amistad Revolt! Wouldn't that be a song for our times! Both, not the left but right wing of the revolutionary movement stood for rule of law for the unpopular... GEEZE those are a few songs which if they don't exist, I would love to write! I am writing new songs for this idea I have of a ballad evening to teach what we have lost in the "Patriot Acts". It begins with a song which was sung by American troops in New Jersey, about brandy peach drinking bucks being able to beat beer drinking English, then the spoken part between that and my song listed above, asks, "Am I the only one who finds it ironic that acts of government which strip basic rights from Americans which we enjoyed as colonial subjects under the King of England, is called the Patriot Act?"
Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Mar 03 - 09:35 AM

Taking back the title and dignity of "patriot" from your born again New American Tories seems a good way to go. That ballad evening sounds a great idea.

This song, by avoiding all specifics that tie it to any particular time or situation, could lead naturally into another song or poem or reading that would draw out the links between the struggle of the late 18th century and that of the early 21st century - the sense of the Revolution being under threat, essentially from the same people.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A love song for America...
From: InOBU
Date: 10 Mar 03 - 08:33 PM

Thanks McGrath, and that is exactly it the CONSERVATIVE possition is the possition in favor of the freedoms we built here, not the so called patriot act! I am working on a demo of the show, I will drop you a copy as it gets towards finished. Cheers, Larry