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Lyr Add: Land of the Free and the Home of the Brav Related threads: Memorial Day Observance (54) 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) Memorial Day songs (13) |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAV From: InOBU Date: 26 May 03 - 07:26 AM LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE Words Lorcan Otway Tune Birmingham Sunday All rights reserved.
By Brandywine's fields in the steel light of dawn,
In tobacco fields, my mother's labor pains
See Crazy Horse ride with no fear on the plain
In a dark prison cell, I barely can see
With great grandfather's musket, I offered the fight
So pause on these days when the banners all wave. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 26 May 03 - 08:14 PM Home of the Brave that is... ruther than barve... Anyone else hear the clock ticking in here? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: katlaughing Date: 26 May 03 - 08:44 PM I like the sentiments, as always, Larry. Thanks for sharing! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 27 May 03 - 08:08 AM Thanks Kat! Wonder where everyone is? Maybe it is a bad thread title... Cheers Larry |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 28 May 03 - 08:23 AM Gee wonder where folks are this week? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 28 May 03 - 08:52 AM I thought the title was a misprint for the pop song Home of the brave, land of the free but it's so much better than that song. congratulations sandra |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: alanabit Date: 28 May 03 - 03:03 PM Good song. Everyone fights for freedom and justice, don't they? Where are the soldiers who volunteer to fight for enslavement and injustice?. There must be some, otherwise the good guys wouldn't have anyone to fight. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 29 May 03 - 09:37 PM Actually, the ones who fight for everlasting injustice are in Bond films, Smersh and the like, many Americans believe the enimy is just that, ploting around a table to be the best bad guy ever. Cheers Larry PS Now I know I have to play Sidney some day... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: GUEST Date: 29 May 03 - 09:41 PM good song, lor.... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Br From: Kudzuman Date: 29 May 03 - 10:17 PM thanks!! Great song! Kudzuman |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 30 May 03 - 08:05 AM Ah whoops... sang it for a pal, Kim, who asked which battle I meant by Brandywine, and pointed out that I meant Bennington! In fact, he was right, and Bennington DOES fit the meter, so in verce one, do substitute Bennington, though Brandywine has so much more of a poetic ring, but, the battle where Bergoyne was harrassed from behind walls was in fact Bennington, sorry folks Larry |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 30 May 03 - 06:29 PM Brandywine is a much more evocative word than Bennington, though it does make it sound a bit like a Hobbit singing. And Yoder might sound like Star Trek to some people... Good song anyway. Best be careful when you sing it. "Home of the brave, land of the free I don't want to be mistreated by no bourgeoisie..." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 30 May 03 - 11:56 PM Shame about the short verce structure, Yoder is also a Mennonite name, and we share a meeting house with a nice bunch of Mennonites, and share a lot of Peace Demos with them and shared a lot of jail cells in the days when... but there was no way to get Mennonite into the verce. Cheers Larry |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 06 Jun 03 - 06:51 AM Wouldn't you know I sang this at Menno house last night, for young Mennonites, and no verce about Mennonites! Cheers Larry |
Subject: Lyr Add: LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAV From: InOBU Date: 04 Jul 09 - 10:10 AM LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE Words Lorcan Otway Tune Birmingham Sunday All rights reserved. By Bennington's fields in the steel light of dawn, Crouched by a stone wall, where I knew they'd come on, Musket primed for a foe from far over the wave, In the land of the free and the home of the brave. In tobacco fields, my mother's labor pains Brought me to the life of the lash and slave chains. I fled north to Canada from slavery To the home of brave and the land of the free. See Crazy Horse riding now over the plain To Greasy Grass battle, a victory to gain. From Yellow Hair's murders his people to save, The Lakota live free in the home of the brave. In a dark prison cell, I barely can see Hans Yoder who lies bruised and tortured like me. We Quakers and Amish no Great War will fight. We bravely sought freedom from tyranny's might. With grandfather's musket, I carrued the fight To a coward in a jet plane who struck in the night. All of my forefathers in these mountains like me Made Afghanistan home to the brave and the free. So now in these days when the banners all wave. Ask yourself, what is freedom, and where are the brave? Have courage to stand with the brave and the free When your nation strays from the path of liberty. Here is the final version as performed and recorded... happy 4th all... Peace - |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mem. Day song Land of Free Home of Brave From: InOBU Date: 04 Jul 09 - 11:39 AM http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60569783484&ref=ts#/video/video.php?v=71176561677&oid=60569783484 Link to a performance of the same on a facebook group... |
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