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Posts: 4414
 
Location: United Kingdom | I have no time to look for Marty's thread on this, but I will
Suffice to say
I am more than very worried about the absence of posts on the Board here
Most such lately have been from advertisers that have been ably deleted by Ophi the mod
Think we need to post, revivify, or do some such
Else all will go down the drain
Quite a few good music elements I have seen around currently that I shall try to post soon as I have time |
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PhD Alumni
Posts: 4414
Location: United Kingdom | Sister Marie Keyrouz: she who sings God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2vKMLkDCxo
Not on You Tube though is her Chant for Holy Thursday, which is a choral to die for ...
The Divine must love you Sister Marie: Blessings Be upon Thee |
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UMS Guest
Posts: 1938
  
Location: United Kingdom | The Impossible Dream
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go.
To right the unrightable wrong,
To love pure and chaste from afar,
To try when your arms are too weary –
To reach the unreachable Star.
This is my quest:
To follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for the right, without question or pause,
To be willing to march into hell, for a heavenly cause...
And I know, if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest,
That my heart will be peaceful and calm,
When I’m laid to my rest...
And the world will be better for this,
That one man [soul],
Scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage –
To reach the unreachable star.
From ‘The Man of La Mancha’ (Don Quixote)
Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ejzRiyMzi8
Specially dedicated to all Sun Scorpios
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UMS Guest
Posts: 1938
Location: United Kingdom | In Memory Of Pete Seeger Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago.
Taken husbands every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago.
Gone to soldiers every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing’.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago.
Gone to grave yards every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the grave yards gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the grave yards gone?
Long time ago.
Gone to flowers every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Young girls picked them every one.
And where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to grave yards, every one
When shall we, humankind, ever learn?
When shall we ever learn?
Pete Seeger
Sung by Marlene Dietrich
Peter ‘Pete’ Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's ‘Goodnight, Irene’, which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture and environmental causes.
As a songwriter, he was the author or co-author of ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’ (with Joe Hickerson), ‘If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)’ (composed with Lee Hays of the Weavers), and ‘Turn, Turn, Turn!’ All of them have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. ‘Flowers’ was a hit recording for the Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). ‘If I Had a Hammer’ was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while the Byrds popularized ‘Turn, Turn, Turn!’ in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964 and the Seekers in 1966.
Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularising the spiritual ‘We Shall Overcome’ (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists). This song became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS American Masters episode ‘Pete Seeger: The Power of Song’, Seeger stated it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional ‘We will overcome’ to the more singable ‘We shall overcome’.
From Wikipedia
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UMS Guest
Posts: 1938
Location: United Kingdom | How about this for a change of theme? After all, the soul needs something to chuckle about, too.
O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual,
You can see it from the funny clothes he wears,
In his greasy leather jacket or his suit of corduroy
Or that woollen shirt that's full of stains and tears.
O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual.
He used to be a Stalinist they say.
For a while he was a Trotskyist,
Until he saw what he had risked.
Now he's just a pragmatist.
O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual,
But he thought the Beatles were a gas.
Mind, he didn't like their music
Or their haircuts and the rest.
He liked them 'cause they were from the working class.
O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual.
Supports the co-op movement do-or-die.
We must nationalise he cries,
Down with private enterprise.
But his divvy comes from shares in ICI.
O, My Daddy is a left-wing intellectual.
Believes in full equality for men,
But you should have heard the fuss
when I failed the 11-plus.
He packed me off to Eton there and then.
Alex Glasgow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfz4-sMgak
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