Gala SpringConcert - May 12

The Mendelssohn Glee Club

 SONG NOTES AND LYRICS 

RIVERSONG 

Anyone who has experienced the wonderful sounds of Celtic music is going to respond enthusiastically to this exceptional Roger Emerson original which captures all the spark and color of the Celtic tradition.

 

Shule a-roon away to waters by the sea; It’s a churning, yearning river!

You can cast your burdens there upon the glass; Just a skip of a polished pebble.

 

Other Choruses:  Dreamers…

 

Sing and dance!  Do a reel to the tune of a babbling tale,

Do you heal to the tune of a babbling tale?

Let your heart be glad.  Let the song of the river take you away!

Let the song of the river take you away!

Don’t let the sun set on hearts of stone.  Turn to the river of life.

Wisdom of nature is true to God.

 

Other Choruses:  Be a river or tree…

 

Come now, sing and dance!  Do a reel to the tune of a babbling tale.

Do you heal to the tune of a babbling tale?

Let your heart be glad.  Let the song of the river take you away!

Dance to the tune; sing to the moon; aye, shule a-roon; Oh, shule a-roon.

 

Let the river take you!

 

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE 

Seeger found inspiration for this song in October 1955, while on a plane bound for a concert in Ohio. Leafing through his notebook he saw a passage taken from the traditional Cossacks folk song Koloda-Duda, "Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them/ Where are the girls, they've all taken husbands/ Where are the men, they're all in the army.".

 

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, 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?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing?
Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago?
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone for soldiers everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

 

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