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Subject: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: thehiker Date: 10 Aug 06 - 10:34 AM Does anyone have the lyrics to the Thom Moore song, The Cedars Of Lebanon. I think he recorded this tune when he was the main man in Pumpkinhead.With all that is happening in the Mid East recently I was thinking about this song and thought it would be nice to have the lyrics.All help greatly appreciated. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: Peace Date: 10 Aug 06 - 10:36 AM This it?
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 10 Aug 06 - 05:05 PM Peace, I can't get the link to work. Any hope you could copy & paste? Cheers, B |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE CEDARS OF LEBANON (M. McCawley) From: ClaireBear Date: 10 Aug 06 - 06:15 PM Here are the words to the page Peace linked to: THE CEDARS OF LEBANON By M. McCawley 1. God's love is strong like the cedars of Lebanon, Standing firm though the winds and the storms may rage. For God's love endures though the mountains may turn to dust, Ever constant and sure from age to age. 2. God holds you fast in the palm of His mighty hand, And will never forget His own love for you. Though mothers forget their own children within their wombs, Never shall God's love be proved untrue. 3. Let ev'ry nation on earth now sing praise to God For the wonders God's love has done for all. For God moves the wind through the cedars of Lebanon, As He moves ev'ry heart to hear His call. ©1997, M.McCawley, all rights reserved. (copy pasted from the text-only version of the site Peace found; what he linked to was a GIF file and not copy pastable. It did, however, have the dots...) C |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: Peace Date: 10 Aug 06 - 09:28 PM Joe, did you mention that before? You SURE? This is to the main site. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: Peace Date: 10 Aug 06 - 09:44 PM This is the site I tried to link to--and thank you ClaireBear for getting it straight--SORRY JOE. (In truth, Joe painstakingly walked me through how to do proper links. Three times. At least. OK, five or six times. Maybe one or two more, but THAT'S IT!) Here is the site from Google's page: Cedars of Lebanon The Cedars of Lebanon (9 bar intro) Chords, music and lyrics(NWC File) · Graphic file shown below(GIF File) · Downloadable MIDI Click the triangular button ... members.aol.com/jubilatum1/cedar.htm - 2k - Cached - Similar pages There! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 10 Aug 06 - 10:46 PM Home Page of the site- http://members.aol.com/jubilatum/songs.htm Home page Sometimes pays to start at the beginning. Content of the site, and its pecularities, are more easily found if one does this. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: thehiker Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:51 AM Thanks for the input but these are not the lyrics I was hoping to find. If memory serves the opening lines of Thom Moores song are; A short step from Palestine A heartbeat from this heart of mine Rock fall by the Wailing Wall........................ I think the chorus is; I was raised in the shade of the Cedars Of Lebanon And we played in the bay where the sailors burned the sand then gave the gift to man of what they found there. Again thanks for all the input. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: ClaireBear Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:03 AM Okay, I have them now. Here's where I got them from. Unfortunately, that site gives no clue about who wrote them, or what the music might be. Can someone take this further? CEDARS OF LEBANON A long way from Pharoah's hand, and a quick step from the Promised Land, a quick step from Palestine, and a heartbeat from this heart of mine: Rock-fall at the Wailing Wall, and the temple-keepers fly to where Time machines those great, green trees to a holy timber-land. I was raised in the shade of the Cedars of Lebanon, and I've bathed in the bay where sailors burned the sand, then gave the glass to man and all his kind; past the sight of land, they rode on ships to Spain for what they'd find. Big towns, and your hearts are down, and your eyes burn-your heels get round. Smoke's up, and the sky turns brown- there's a place you know, where your fancy grounds. No dreams on silver screens, they've found a place to hide: the Holy Land of gods and man is where your spirit flies. I was raised in the shade of the Cedars of Lebanon, and I've bathed in the bay where sailors burned the sand, then gave the glass to man and all his kind; past the sight of land, they rode on ships to Spain for what they'd find. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars Of Lebanon From: thehiker Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:40 AM Excellent result team this is exactly the song I was searching for. Thom Moore is the songsmith and he has a very interesting story well worth checking out.He had some success in Ireland in the 70's with two bands Pumpkinhead and latterly Midnight Well more recently several of his songs were recorded by Mary Black. |
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Subject: Lyr Req: Cedars Of Lebanon From: GUEST,Anthony M Date: 21 Jun 09 - 01:47 PM Hi everyone Me and my friend have been listening to this song for quite a while now and we really love it. Only problem is we can't find the lyrics anywhere. Instead when I google the song I see a song by U2 which is certainly not it because the song we are looking for is not a rock song and we don't recognize the words. But what we do know is that it was written by a singer/songwriter called Thom Moore from Dublin. We mostly need the words from the chorus more than anything else from the song. This version is being sang by Seamie O'Dowd ,who some of you may know from the traditional music band, Dervish. If this can't be done, don't worry too much Thankyou very much and Kind Regards Anthony |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cedars Of Lebanon From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 21 Jun 09 - 01:57 PM I remember the song from the first recording by 'Pumpkinhead' the band Thom Moore and Rick Epping were in during the seventies. I should have that lp somewhere, if I can find it. For now this could help you find more information. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cedars Of Lebanon From: GUEST,Anthony M Date: 21 Jun 09 - 07:53 PM Thankyou Peter any help, no matter how small, would be very appreciated Anthony |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cedars Of Lebanon From: GUEST,chordstrangler Date: 22 Jun 09 - 09:34 AM Anthony, go to You Tube and search for Martin Simpson and you will find a fine version. Hope this helps.....M |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars of Lebanon From: GUEST,Anthony M Date: 22 Jun 09 - 07:38 PM I had no idea this thread was here.I started one yesterday to find out the lyrics of this song. Sorry about that! Anyway folks this is Seamie O'Dowd with Mary McPartlan, with their version of it Take Care Anthony |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PHOENICIAN TIDE From: bankley Date: 23 Jun 09 - 12:03 PM I wrote this a few years back during 'Operation Summer Rain' PHOENICIAN TIDE The sky wore a hue of gun barrel blue in fading light as night closed in It blew out the sun and the other stars too They were left hanging in a fragile wind Like so many souls shot full of holes Frozen closed with only tears left to spend For all the highs and lows, the way it goes, I suppose is how it's always been Cedar grew strong, deep and long Forest fragrance upon a Phoenician breeze That touched sloping hills with gentle breath Caressed the ancient seas Eager sails danced on glistening boats They filled and floated on changing tides Sinew and sweat gathers up nets Bartered harvest far and wide That wayfaring wood was solid and good Heart and hand-hewn in a nobler age Cedar was drawn from the land of dawn While her sailors grew strong in its shade Her people took root upon the shores Along that great spread of Mediterranean While Empires came and went with their strain of war Long before the sword turned to uranium Before the sky wore a hue of gun barrel blue In fading light as night closed in It blew out the sun and the other stars too They were left fragile in a fractured wind A web was drawn across Lebanon, It choked the light inside Cedar grew strong in old Lebanon Forest fragrance lingered on fingers of a Phoenician tide Yagheesh al al de Loubnani....... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars of Lebanon From: Nicholas Waller Date: 23 Jun 09 - 05:48 PM For some relevant pictorial backup, here's my mother confronting some Cedars of Lebanon in the late 1950s. And here's me with my mother "taking root upon the shores" in 1959. |
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Subject: Lyr Req: CEDARS OF LEBANON (Thom Moore) From: Jim Dixon Date: 27 Jun 09 - 05:08 PM Lyrics and notes copied from Broadjam.com: CEDARS OF LEBANON Thom Moore 1. A long way from Pharaoh's hand and a quick step from the Promised Land, A quick step from Palestine, and a heartbeat from this heart of mine, Rock-fall at the Wailing Wall and the temple-keepers fly To where time machines those great green trees to a holy timberland. CHORUS: I was raised in the shade of the cedars of Lebanon, And I bathed in the bay where sailors burned the sand, Then gave the glass to man and all his kind. Past the sight of land, they rode on ships to Spain for what they'd find. 2. Big towns and your hearts are down, and your eyes burn and your heels get round. Smoke's up and the sky turns brown. There's a place you know where your fancy grounds. No dreams on silver screens, they've found a place to hide: The Holy Land of God and man is where your spirit flies. CHORUS Past the sight of land, we'll come back home again with what we find. * Short Description of Song: Paean to a lost innocence, growing up in Beirut, Lebanon in the 50s-60s Long Description of Song: Declaration of solidarity with the suffering people of Lebanon at the hands of their neighbours, specifically the state of Israel and its brutal and racist policies Story Behind the Song: Written in Ireland in 1974, just as the secondary phase of the Lebanese civil war was getting under way, instigated and abetted by Israel and its then-defense-minister, Ariel Sharon. The anguish that was felt after the Sabra and Chatila massacres.... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cedars of Lebanon (Thom Moore) From: GUEST,Thom Moore Date: 02 Jan 10 - 06:20 PM Dang, can't stop googling myself (and the thirteen or thirty other Thom Moores around the globe). Yes, Seamie O'Dowd's is the latest version of the song, but probably his second, as it is on the O'Dowd/O'Connor/Hayden Crossroads CD, just released in 2009. And a fine record it is. Seamie has the distinction of having the most songs of mine recorded, having beaten out Mary Black's six (she no longer records my songs, dunno why) this last year. The late, wonderful Englishman John Wright was second or third in this regard, with four on record and another two in the can (including my latest favourite, Croghan Hill) when he died his untimely death. I'm worried for Seamie and Tara MacKenzie, at this rate. Happy new year to everyone, and rest assured that it is truly wonderful to be remembered by all so warmly. Late breaking news (new thread?): I've finally managed to get all my eggs in one boat (all my bananas in one basket? All my ducks in one pond?) by conceiving the notion that, as a songwriter on the one hand and a Russian translator on the other, I should probably do the thing that cries out to be done, and translate Vladimir Vysotsky, the Russian Bob Dylan, who died tastefully young and beautiful (and without ever releasing a Christmas album) in 1980, but whose material fails to move most non-Russian speakers. Looks kind of like a hunky James Dean, sounds like Tom Waits, but writes purest Russian vernacular poetry, in his songs. Rather than beat this notion to death, I'll simply post my translation of one of his most famous songs, On ne vernuls'a iz boya (He Didn't Make It Back,in my version, oops, my computer is crashing: maybe later). Thom |
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