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Swinging Low
Back in my post for song #22, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," I embedded three versions of the song by famous artists. It's just one of those venerable tunes that lends itself to a million variations, almost all of them good. I came across this one randomly this morning and thought I'd share:
Donkeys are in Love with Carrots - Song #36
I am not finding a lot of info about this song at first glance - it's a simple song with silly lyrics. And that's about it.
Donkeys are in love with carrots
carrots aren't in love at all
Hee haw hee haw
Listen to their braying call
Anyone know any more than this?
More music alone
To follow up on my previous post, here are three versions of "Music Alone Shall Live":
1 - A guy singing all the parts himself through the magic of recording technology - charming:
This is also a good place to point out that another term for a round is a simple canon. There are other types of canons where the original melody is not repeated exactly - can be a variation, or reversed, or at an interval, etc. But that's a bit complicated for our purposes.
2 - I love this version, though it's not sung as a round. 1970 reggae:
3 - And finally, in the original German, more or less, by a guy and girl who look like they are at a camp similar to Ajawah:
Music Alone Shall Live - Song # 35
Back to my list of rounds... next up is another classic example, one with a very simple lyric that is easy to learn and sing. It's on the lovely side, rather than the rowdy.
Here is a link to sheet music, though the first line is a slightly different melody than the one I know:
Also, I see that many places have the words as "all things shall vanish," but I prefer the way we sing it at Camp Ajawah: "All Things Shall Perish." Not sure what the closer translation is from the original, which is German:
Himmel und Erde mussen vergehn;
Aber die musici,aber die musici
Aber die musici, bleiben bestehn.
Aber die musici,aber die musici
Aber die musici, bleiben bestehn.
Put the first line in babelfish and it outputs :"Heaven and Earth mussen vergehn." Hmmm. I am guessing it means "must vanish" but let me try another online translator... and I get "Heaven and Earth must pass away." Which sounds more like "perish" than "vanish." Not that it really matters.
More on this round in my next post...
A performance of Wha Saw the 42nd
If you go back to my post about song # 20, you will see a new comment from "anonymous." It mentions a youtube clip featuring two singers performing Wha Saw. Their names are Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor. Here it is:
Pretty rousing! And no bagpipe to be heard. So who are Robin and Jimmie? They were a Scottish folk music duo who were very popular in the UK in the 1960s and 70s, often on the radio. I'd never heard of them before, but am glad to have been led to them. Here's another song (but not one we sang at Camp Ajawah):
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