06 Jun 98 - 04:22 PM (#30243) Subject: Lyr Add: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Barbara I've known this song for years, but not the source of it. Larry Hanks sings it, as do Rielly and Moloney. I first heard it back in the 60's I think and the author was listed as someone Schwartz, and the music lifted from a Pakistani film soundtrack. The first verse and chorus are as follows:
The eyes of a child behold everything from under
Chorus: Thanks, Barbara |
06 Jun 98 - 08:18 PM (#30253) Subject: Lyr Add: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Barbara Here's the rest of the words:
2. Where is the man who in his heart can really feel it?
Chorus
3.How can a man accept life who cannot accept dying?
4. Where is the man who in his heart can really feel it?
Last Chorus: Layla Layla, this world is but a game |
08 May 02 - 07:19 PM (#707024) Subject: Lyr Add: LEELA LEELA (Marley's Ghost) From: Jim Dixon I found 2 more versions of this song, and there are some interesting differences among them.
Lyrics copied from http://www.cyberbites.com/marleys_ghost/mg61.html
LEELA LEELA
CHO: Leela, Leela, this life is just a game.
The eyes of the baby look at everything from under.
And where is the man who in his heart can really feel it?
How can a man accept life who has not accepted dying?
And show me the man who in his heart can really feel it. Those who say don't know and those who know don't say. [Recorded by Marley's Ghost on "Across the River," 1998.] |
08 May 02 - 07:20 PM (#707027) Subject: Lyr Add: LEELA LEELA (Willy Schwarz) From: Jim Dixon Copied from http://www.rattaymusic.de/releases/misc./Schwarz.Live.html
LEELA LEELA
As a baby I looked up at everything from under,
CHO: Leela, leela: This world is just a game.
O can you realize it? Can you really feel it?
CHO: Leela, leela: This world is just a game.
If you want to gain the prize, O hear me, I implore you:
[Recorded by Willy Schwarz on "Live for the Moment," 1999.]
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08 May 02 - 07:32 PM (#707032) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) The song is a brief abridgement of the Arabic song, "Aba'ad" which is over 20 minutes long. See Aba'ad Layla Layla |
08 May 02 - 07:35 PM (#707035) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) I put the site, but ?? Try again. Abaad Layla Layla |
08 May 02 - 07:37 PM (#707036) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Half way through the 20 minutes, you learn that "Layla" means "night." |
08 May 02 - 08:33 PM (#707064) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Stewie There was a more recent thread on 'Leela' that I am unable to find. Jody Stecher recorded it on his 'Snake Bake a Hoecake' album (1974). Willy Schwarz (Billy then)played electric steel and whistle on the recording. Jody noted that Schwarz 'wrote the English words, appropriate to his situation at the time, as a kind of singing commercial promoting Hindu chanting'. He says that, in the song, 'Leela' is a Sanskrit-derived word for 'game'. --Stewie. |
08 May 02 - 08:59 PM (#707079) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Layla Layla translated from Hebrew: Night after night, the wind strengthens Night after night, the tree tops are noisy, Night after night, a star is singing, Sleep. sleep, put out the candle. Night after night, close your eyes, Night after night, on the way to you, Night after night, armed they rode, Sleep, sleep, three horsemen. Night after night, one was eaten, Night after night, the second died on the way, Night after night, and the third that remained, Sleep, sleep- did not remember your name. The Hebrew is also given at this site: Layla Layla An old Semitic eastern song, present in several countries. The above is the version from the Middle East Hebraic communities. The Arabic version is too long to post. The song Leela being posted here is not the same song as that in the title of this thread. |
08 May 02 - 09:19 PM (#707091) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon wrote a song called Layla. No relation to any of the above. Cho.: Layla, you got me on my knees, Layla, I'm begging, darling, please, Layla darling, won't you ease my worried mind. Ugh! Somehow there ought to be a line in the above that rhymes with stinking cheese. |
09 May 02 - 06:08 PM (#707690) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: lamarca Jody Stecher said somewhere (maybe the liner notes for the CD re-release of Snake Baked a Hoecake) that his recording added to the world population of Leelas, judging by the number of female fans who've come up to him at concerts and said "Oh, I named my daughter Leela because I love that song you do!" |
04 Feb 08 - 09:25 AM (#2253121) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: GUEST,Volgadon "The Hebrew is also given at this site: Layla Layla An old Semitic eastern song, present in several countries. The above is the version from the Middle East Hebraic communities. The Arabic version is too long to post. The song Leela being posted here is not the same song as that in the title of this thread." I'm pretty sure this was written by Nathan Alterman in the 1920s or 30s... |
04 Feb 08 - 02:06 PM (#2253332) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: GUEST,Volgadon I checked our book of Hebrew lullabies, the lyrics for Laila, Laila, are indeed by Nathan Alterman, the music by Mordechai Ze'ira. |
04 Feb 08 - 02:33 PM (#2253359) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: GUEST,Volgadon Arik Einstein performs it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNNEO8UEALU |
04 Feb 08 - 03:17 PM (#2253408) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Andrez My exposure to the song was through the Jody Stecher recording: Leela. I always took the title to refer to the Hindu concept of Lila. In that system, Lila is a way of describing all reality, including the cosmos, as the outcome of creative play by the divine absolute (Brahman). Lila is also used to refer to the illusory nature of existence. Based on this I cant really see that there is an Arabic or Hebrew connection with the lyrics recorded by Jody. but then I dont know anything about the songs origins and havent yet had the time to look at some of the other references above. I'm open to persuasion otherwise. Cheers, Andrez |
04 Feb 08 - 04:19 PM (#2253470) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: GUEST,Volgadon There isn't a Hebrew connection, I just saw the lyrics posted here with erroneous information, so I corrected it. |
04 Feb 08 - 06:18 PM (#2253564) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Andrez Oi Vey! I thought it was stretching things a little. :-) Andrez |
13 Jan 11 - 01:01 AM (#3073516) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: GUEST,seth in Olympia Dug around and found my 1974 copy of "Snake Baked a Hoecake" In the notes J.S. says the song comes from Nepal. There is a YouTube video of the song being performed by John Adams in Oregon in 2009. He says the original song is about disillusionment, but the words are too complex and untrans;ltable, so Jody and his friends made up some words of their own. On the "snake " album, they used hand drums and a tamboura and whistles, flutes,guitars group singing and who knows what else-I've always liked this version just made a CD with it on it for my three grand-daughters ages 8,2 and three months- never knew quite where it came from and now I don't knw more than I did before but I really love the song |
13 Jan 11 - 02:35 PM (#3073845) Subject: RE: info req: LAYLA, LAYLA From: Q (Frank Staplin) Update on Arabic Aba'ad (Far Away), often called "Leyla, Leyla." Aba ad Brief extracts- 'Far away you were, or near to what your heart desires. Always, always, you are in good hands. -------------- I hope you did not forget me, I hope. And I hope another love did not come along and take you. ------------------ I am waiting for your love, I am waiting but I can not. ------------------- Layla, layla, layla, Allah, layla, layla, layla. Night, night, night, oh God, night, night, night. (Many variations on this phrase). ---------------- (And many more verses) |