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Amazing Grace for a hymn.

The regular music I listen to, is Nickleback, Ozzy, Van Halen I know there is more.

I also like Jazz and Classical.

i vow to thee my country is my fav

Favorite hymn: Toss up between "Amazing Grace", and "Softly and Tenderly".



Favorite Christmas carol: "O Holy Night", and "Christmas Canon Rock" (the latter by Trans Siberian Orchestra.)



Favorite patriotic song: "Star-Spangled Banner". (And yes, I can hit all the notes. For now. LOL.) Ray Charles' rendition of "America" makes me weep every single I hear it, though. So, I have it on CD, to hear it over and over.



Favorite hard rock song: Any one from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", "Dark Side of the Moon", or "Another Brick In the Wall" albums.



Favorite pop tune: In English: "House of the Rising Sun", by The Animals. In Italian: "Questo Piccolo Grande Amore", by Claudio Baglioni.



Favorite opera tune: Either "O Mio Babbino Caro", or "Canon in D" by Pachelbel, or "Lakme: Flower Duet", by Delibes.



Favorite blues tune: "Lover Man", by Billie Holliday. (I do a very mean version of it myself.) "Shake A Tail Feather" by Ray Charles is right up there as well, also.



Favorite jazz/swing tune: "Linus and Lucy", by Vince Guaraldi. (Most people know it as the Charlie Brown theme, but it is titled Linus and Lucy. If you close your eyes when you listen to it, you can see it fits them perfectly.)



I'm not into country, though I am partial to Johhny Cash, Dolly Parton and Charley Pride.



I guess I don't have a favorite song! There's too many to choose from!:-6

Joan, go back and start practicing the piano, it will come back. I play on a daily basis, and will play many great hymns tomorrow for Easter services. Old Rugged Cross, Holy, Holy, Holy-my hand bell choir is playing that one, with a calypso beat!:-6

Ah, the grannies will wake up to that fast! :wah:

chonsigirl;588148 wrote: Joan, go back and start practicing the piano, it will come back. I play on a daily basis, and will play many great hymns tomorrow for Easter services. Old Rugged Cross, Holy, Holy, Holy-my hand bell choir is playing that one, with a calypso beat!:-6

Ah, the grannies will wake up to that fast! :wah:


I wish our handbell choir would do something like that! We have a bunch of grannies, and gramps, (or grumps, if you like), who could stand to wake up fast!

HI Joan:D

my favourite hymn when i was younger was There is a green hill far away ( not sure if thats the right title tho)

I like all kinds of music depending on my mood, but i do love Eva Cassidy, a brilliant singer and some beautiful songs. Have a lovely day Joan:yh_hugs

hymn? "Raise you up on Eagle's Wings" I'm not sure why, but every time i hear it sung, its all tears and goose bumps.

as for music & poetry that i actually relate to? "forty-six & 2" by Tool has been my inspiraition for the last few months. Here are a few lyrics:



I choose to live and to

Grow, take and give and to

Move, learn and love and to

Cry, kill and die and to

Be paranoid and to

Lie, hate and fear and to

Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to

Lie, kill and give and to

Die, learn and love and to

Do what it takes to step through.

See my shadow changing,

Stretching up and over me.

Soften this old armor.

Hoping I can clear the way

By stepping through my shadow,

Coming out the other side.

Step into the shadow.

Forty six and two are just ahead of me.

I like Amazing Grace i dunno if thats a Hymm though

I'm partial to Ralph Stanley's version of "Village Churchyard." He does it in traditional Old Regular Baptist "call and response" style and it's very haunting.

And while not a hymn, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" is still my favorite traditional song.

I’ll offer “Wretched, helpless, and distrest, Ah! whither shall I fly?, I’m curiously attracted to introspective hymns of that sort.

Or, for contrast, Sinners, turn, why will ye die?. Strong stuff, that.

My husband has gotten me interested in Celtic. I love Celtic Women. Check this link to a post I mad here, with a couple of my favorites by them

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=25764

try these my friend you might like :-6

jimbo;588970 wrote: try these my friend you might like :-6
















I like Enya. Had some of her music at my wedding reception.

Hymns: Amazing Grace, It is well with my soul, Victory in Jesus, Go, Tell it on the Mountain to name a few....

As for favorite Songs, there are so many....and I love all kinds of different type of music, but as far as Christian music....the following is one of my very favortist Christian Singers and this is just one of my favorite songs of hers:

Joannee;589063 wrote: Thank you, Wendy, Marie,Jimbo,Gino.Spot,Music Lover,Red Glitter and Lovelight and anyone I have missed out.

The response to my thread has been wonderful and it is so good to be able to share our songs/hymns/poetry etc etc, each one brings a different , memory, reason to the individual.

Thank you for recommending the sites for me to look at too.



When we were married fifty three years ago we had

*Love Divine all Love's excelling* and *Lead us Heavenly Father Lead Us* also

the 23rd Psalm.


you are more than welcome my friend ,on the whole its a very nice place here on fg :-6 :-6

jimbo;589067 wrote: you are more than welcome my friend ,on the whole its a very nice place here on fg :-6


Especially the days we let Jimbo come out and play with us....yayyyyyyy!!!:D :-4 :wah:

WonderWendy3;589116 wrote: Especially the days we let Jimbo come out and play with us....yayyyyyyy!!!:D




OIY I'M ON WEEKEND RELEASE FROM MY FUNNY FARM how are you wendy woo my furry fluffy funny friend :p

jimbo;589182 wrote: OIY I'M ON WEEKEND RELEASE FROM MY FUNNY FARM how are you wendy woo my furry fluffy funny friend


I am fine and dandy as fine and dandy as someone as fluffy and furry as me can be!!:-6

I think its great that they release you from the farm and onto the Garden...not too much of a difference if ya ask me... :p

What a Wonderful World-Louis Armstrong



Imagine- John Lennon



Fortunate Son- CCR

RedGlitter;588795 wrote: I'm partial to Ralph Stanley's version of "Village Churchyard." He does it in traditional Old Regular Baptist "call and response" style and it's very haunting.

And while not a hymn, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" is still my favorite traditional song.


An odd story about that song.

We were at the Warwick Folk Festival last year and it was late on ther Saturday night, the concerts had stopped and the bar tent was full. Past midnight the staff wanted to lock up and go home but everyone was enjoying themselves too much.

One of the singers we know started singing Will the Circle Be Unbroken - beautiful and very powerful voice. Silence, and then the harmonies started as people around him started to join in.

So he started to walk, very slowly, the length of the tent to the exit and gathered the whole crowd together, with each group joining in as he reached them.

There were not a few people with tears in their eyes by the time we were all outside.

A memory that will live for a long time.

e.e. cummings - anyone lived in a pretty how town

anyone lived in a pretty how town

(with up so floating many bells down)

spring summer autumn winter

he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)

cared for anyone not at all

they sowed their isn't they reaped their same

sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few

and down they forgot as up they grew

autumn winter spring summer)

that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf

she laughed his joy she cried his grief

bird by snow and stir by still

anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones

laughed their cryings and did their dance

(sleep wake hope and then)they

said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon

(and only the snow can begin to explain

how children are apt to forget to remember

with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess

(and noone stooped to kiss his face)

busy folk buried them side by side

little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep

and more by more they dream their sleep

noone and anyone earth by april

wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)

summer autumn winter spring

reaped their sowing and went their came

sun moon stars rain

The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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1.

Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!

"Charge for the guns!" he said:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

2.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"

Was there a man dismay'd?

Not tho' the soldier knew

Someone had blunder'd:

Their's not to make reply,

Their's not to reason why,

Their's but to do and die:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

3.

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them

Volley'd and thunder'd;

Storm'd at with shot and shell,

Boldly they rode and well,

Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of Hell

Rode the six hundred.

4.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,

Flash'd as they turn'd in air,

Sabring the gunners there,

Charging an army, while

All the world wonder'd:

Plunged in the battery-smoke

Right thro' the line they broke;

Cossack and Russian

Reel'd from the sabre stroke

Shatter'd and sunder'd.

Then they rode back, but not

Not the six hundred.

5.

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

Volley'd and thunder'd;

Storm'd at with shot and shell,

While horse and hero fell,

They that had fought so well

Came thro' the jaws of Death

Back from the mouth of Hell,

All that was left of them,

Left of six hundred.

6.

When can their glory fade?

O the wild charge they made!

All the world wondered.

Honor the charge they made,

Honor the Light Brigade,

Noble six hundred.





Copied from Poems of Alfred Tennyson,

J. E. Tilton and Company, Boston, 1870

juno;594954 wrote: I've loved this since I first read it (The Trees by Philip Larkin):




I see your trees and raise it one Linden Lea

Linden Lea

Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Words by William Barnes



Within the woodlands, flowery gladed,

By the oak tree's mossy moot,

The shining grass-blades, timber-shaded,

Now do quiver under foot;

And birds do whistle overhead,

And water's bubbling in its bed,

And there for me the apple tree

Do lean down low in Linden Lea.

When leaves that lately were a-springing

Now do fade within the copse,

And painted birds do hush their singing

Up upon the timber tops;

And brown-leaved fruit's a-turning red,

In cloudless sunshine, overhead,

With fruit for me, the apple tree

Do lean down low in Linden Lea.

Let other folk make money faster

In the air of dark-roomed towns,

I don't dread a peevish master;

Though no man do heed my frowns,

I be free to go abroad,

Or take again my homeward road

To where, for me, the apple tree

Do lean down low in Linden Lea.





Love the Larkin BTW - took me back to my childhood

juno;594967 wrote: Oh I'd forgotten Linden Lea - I loved to sing this at school! (I did sing this at school but was never in the choir - must've been a compulsory music lesson.)

Thanks, Bryn :-6

Singing it now ...


Damn'd if I can get it out of my head either :wah:

juno;594973 wrote: Now I remember - I never sang it at school, I played it on the recorder.

Hang on, still got it (recorder) somewhere ...



*outraged neighbour thumping on shared wall expected ...


I prefer the penny whistle, it's easier - and a shed at the bottom of a very long garden would help

There's this bluegrass song of Bill Monroe's called "Six White Horses."

It says ..."if you don't believe I'm leaving, count the days I'm gone."

It's so perfunctory and it gets me every time.