21 Dec 18 - 07:20 PM (#3967772) Subject: Lyr Add: Solstice song reposted From: mg I know I have posted this before. Send me a PM and I will give you a modest MP3 of tune. SOLSTICE BELLS Chorus: Ring the bell of loveliness ring the bells of sorrow Some were ringing yesterday and more will ring tomorrow When the days are cold and short and the nights are darkest When hopes are hanging by a thread and memories are starkest First a tinkle here and there and then a mighty chiming Till heard by people everywhere in perfect pitch and timing They ring from little churches and from every ship at sea And from the mighty mountaintops wherever folks were free From every home and nation the message they are bringing You thought that you could silence us but once again we’re ringing. In the days we were enslaved their music was forbidden Their brass and silver melted down but many had been hidden Under stones and inside walls where tyrannies abounded But mostly in those hearts who still remembered how they sounded A cost was paid to bring them back a cost that some paid dearly Some could see it not at all and some could see it clearly. But all can join in joyful hope and greet each other well And send their best good wishes with the ring of every bell That crops will grow that peace will hold that every child be healthy That all will prosper in this year the humble and the wealthy That weather will be clement and the ground will not be shaken That freedom will return to all from whom it has been taken |
21 Dec 18 - 11:49 PM (#3967799) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Solstice song reposted From: Joe Offer Who wrote it? I'm guessing it was you, mg, but it's always best to know for sure. -Joe- |
22 Dec 18 - 12:49 AM (#3967801) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Solstice song reposted From: mg i did. i think it is centered around Greece and Crete |
22 Dec 18 - 04:34 AM (#3967814) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Solstice song reposted From: Jack Campin This rather misses the point. In the early modern Ottoman Empire, bells were melted down to make cannon for their long war with Catholic Europe - the Orthodox were otherwise tolerated well and their religion was not suppressed. Brotton's "This Orient Isle" gives another angle - Protestant Elizabethan England exported scrapped bells to the Kingdom of Morocco in exchange for saltpetre, which the English needed for their war with the Catholic enemy. Religious practice was sacrificed to the arms industry makes for a rather different song. In some parts of the Orthodox world, bells were never used again. Romanian churches hammer on big planks. |
22 Dec 18 - 07:55 PM (#3967950) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Solstice song reposted From: Jim Dixon SOLSTICE BELLS was previously posted in this thread, on 21-Dec-2005: Lyr Add: Solstice Bells. There’s also one called RING OUT, SOLSTICE BELLS, by Ian Anderson, from the Jethro Tull album “Songs from the Wood” (1977), posted in the thread Songs for the Winter Solstice. Do people really ring bells for the solstice? I have never heard of this. |