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06 Nov 01 - 08:44 AM (#586637) Subject: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: CapriUni There is much to be said for the songs that make us feel weepy and sad -- and much is being said, over in Songs that make you weep. But now, I'd like to ask a different question: "What song do you sing to keep from weeping?" What songs give you the courage to take a deep breath and keep on going when the world seems to be falling apart around you? One that does it for me, consistantly, is: "A Sailor's Prayer" by (drawing a blank -- I know it's in digitrad, but the search doesn't seem to be working for me). Its chorus goes:
I will not lie me down this rain a-raging. What are your favorites?
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06 Nov 01 - 09:05 AM (#586655) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: GUEST,McGrath of Harlow Finnegan's Wake. |
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06 Nov 01 - 09:20 AM (#586663) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Morticia Row on......but it doesn't seem to be working today |
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06 Nov 01 - 09:46 AM (#586677) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: CamiSu I don't know. Hymns maybe. But sometimes I weep anyway for the joy and power the song has. |
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06 Nov 01 - 09:55 AM (#586686) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: CharlieA another train. not sure who originally wrote it. very good for that. Cxxx |
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06 Nov 01 - 10:01 AM (#586690) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: CapriUni CamiSu -- That sort of weeping is a different animal entirely from the sad weepy songs. Speaking of hymns, I also find strength in "How can I keep from singing?" which is discussed here. |
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06 Nov 01 - 11:32 AM (#586748) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Burke Some hymns make me weep & others keep me from weeping. Easter hymns are good for not weeping. Some that come to mind Crown Him with many Crowns, All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, Lift High the Cross, I know that my Reedemer Lives. Come to think of it, For all the Saints (used last Sunday) sung to Ralph Vaughan Williams Sine Nomine, is not weepy.
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06 Nov 01 - 11:45 AM (#586763) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Janie Hymns, especially joyous gospel songs, 60's protest songs, and believe it or not, Neil Young's song (title probably not quite right) "Don't Let It Bring You Down, It's Only Castles Burning" |
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06 Nov 01 - 05:10 PM (#587000) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Kim C Any upbeat yodelin number will do. |
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06 Nov 01 - 05:59 PM (#587009) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: kendall I cant sing when I feel like weeping. There is a line in "Rocksalt and nails" that goes .."I walk out alone and look at the sky, too empty to sing, too lonesome to cry."I understand the too empty to sing.. |
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06 Nov 01 - 07:09 PM (#587051) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Amergin lonesome valley... |
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06 Nov 01 - 08:11 PM (#587095) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: GUEST Texass Willie McCorderoy's "Oh Woman I Couldn't Cry When You Left Me Since The Sleep Done Jammed-Up My Tearducts". |
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06 Nov 01 - 11:45 PM (#587190) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Kaleea When one needs cheering up, one, of course, turns to Hank! "I'm goin down three times but I'm only comin' up twice!." and then a few choruses of "Thar's a tear in ma beer cuz I'm cryin fer ya dear . . ." which leads to the inevitable " . . .I got a hotrod ford & a two dollar bill; I know a spot right over the hill; thar's sodeepop & th' dancin's free; so if ya wanna have fun come along with me" and winds up with "Crawfish pie, jambolaya and a filet gumbo!" And before I can say gimme a six pack I'm all cheered up! |
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06 Nov 01 - 11:56 PM (#587196) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: heric Capri that's fabulous. I just hung it up above the computer. |
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07 Nov 01 - 12:06 AM (#587202) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: CapriUni What's fabulous? "The Sailor's Prayer"? I know it is. One of my favorites. Ten years ago, when my mother was dying, I don't know how I could have gotten through the days without it. It's a modern song, but I cannot, at the moment, remember who wrote it, but I believe the full lyrics are in the DT, if you can get there. Gordon Bok does a wonderful cover of it on his album Rougue's Gallery of Song for the Twelve String, which is how I first heard it.
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07 Nov 01 - 12:23 AM (#587207) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: heric Though my sails be torn and ragged and my mast be turned about Though the night wind chill me to my very soul Though the salt spray sting my eye and the stars no sight provide Give me just enough morning light to hold I will not lie me down, this rain a-raging I will not lie me down in such a storm And if this night be unblessed, I shall not take my rest Until we reach another shore If the only water's salt and I cannot quench my thirst I will drink the rain that falls so steady down If night's blindness be my gift, if there be thieves upon my drift I will praise the dark that shelters me from them If my friends be drained and weary and it seems their hopes are lost There's no need for their bones on this blackened bottom And if death wait just off the bow, we need not answer to him now We'll stand on and face the morning light without him Rod MacDonald |
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07 Nov 01 - 12:27 AM (#587208) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Marymac90 Rod McDonald wrote Sailor's Prayer, and it has long been a favorite of mine. I guess I don't keep a mental list of songs to KEEP myself from crying, (though I really do LIKE hopeful, positive songs) because I have a difficult time letting myself cry. I'm more interested in ones that will help me TO cry. One is the Black national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, especially the second verse, which refers to "the blood of the slaughtered". Mary McCaffrey |
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07 Nov 01 - 11:55 AM (#587483) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: CapriUni Mary -- Actually, here I'm using "weep" in a semi-metaphorical way, as a symbol of being simply overwhelmed by circumstance. I don't sing these songs to keep the tears from falling, exactly, but to give me the strength to pick myself up after I soak my pillow and get back out there. But you're right. In this culture, especially, we often feel the need to be given permission to cry, and sad, weepy songs do that. They give us the sense that we're not the only ones who've felt this way -- the composer of the song did, too. |
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07 Nov 01 - 12:16 PM (#587497) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Trevor I like 'Weather the Storm' by Ralph McTell. But is it a folk song................. (ironic question) |
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07 Nov 01 - 10:05 PM (#587958) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: Robin2 The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rodgers |
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07 Nov 01 - 10:49 PM (#587983) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: DougR "I'm Glad I Made You Cry, 'Cause Your Face Is Cleaner Now." DougR |
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07 Nov 01 - 11:46 PM (#588013) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: CapriUni LOL, DougR! Who wrote that one? |
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07 Nov 01 - 11:51 PM (#588017) Subject: RE: Songs we sing to keep from weeping From: SINSULL I am better off crying and getting it over with. Why try to keep from weeping? Sooner or later it has to happen. |