Is there a way to post an audio link? I'd love to hear this song.
I get my strength, order, center from music ALL the time! Actually, if I could only have one of my 5 senses, I'd take my hearing ANY day!
What motivates or calms me? Oh my ... that would be a topic! If I just need to get off my hiney and get moving I love the sound track to the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. There is a "suite" on that production that describes the "Old West" and I love it. It has a little Copland, "Orange Blossom Special," and a theme that is as moving as Bonanza.
THIS song! I've listened to it and cried, sobbed deep throbbing tears that drench my face and anything near me. Even though it doesn't seem to point to God, I feel like the only way to cross those rivers of sorrow are with God's help - so I reach out a hand and I feel His presence and I move - out of my sorrow and into hope.......Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"
Dot - This song healed me so much... I know its' been heard in churches - but this is how I first heard it and I prayed during the song....Rich Mullins "Sometimes by Step""Hold Me Jesus"
Several songs motivate me. Some motivate me to be a better musician... others just motivate me to stand as a citizen of the U.S. of A.
With 4th of July quickly approaching, I'm planning to go to Corpus Christi, TX. Around 7:pm the CC Symphony will be assembled on the deck of the retired naval carrier, the USS Lexington. Thousands will gather at the shoreline of the bay. A barge will be all set up a few hundred yards out in the bay. The symphony will start playing the Stars and Stripes Forever, and one of the radio stations will broadcast it. Thousands of radios on the boardwalk and the Shoreline Drive medium will turn their radios up.
The fireworks will start firing off in the distance for the next 20 minutes or so, then everything qets quiet and the overture begins in the softest sweetness imaginable way. As the music begins to build to a crescendo, the fireworks will start again.
If I knew how to down load it...............You'd be able to hear the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovosky.
I was in the Army and played French Horn in the Army Band. I got involved with TWI in 1975 just as we were practicing music for the bi-centennial. Even today, listening to it and knowing the real work involved in performing it is as moving to me as most of the ministry songs I still sing while working around the house.
If you can get a copy of it with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the words will grip your throat.
The copy I have doesn't have the Choir on it and I am desparately seeking the production of it.
As I recall there is a part where the lyrics say:
"Oh Lord God Hear! OUR PRAYER! ! ! ! "
It is a gut wrenching plea that I think IMHO our country quit making years ago. And when it is sung in context of the music....I am more motivated and more emotional about the performance of this song than any Christmas songs.
In fact, 4th of July has come to mean more to me than Christmas. I would go so far as to say that what Christmas means to most people, the 4th means to me.
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Dot,
Is there a way to post an audio link? I'd love to hear this song.
I get my strength, order, center from music ALL the time! Actually, if I could only have one of my 5 senses, I'd take my hearing ANY day!
What motivates or calms me? Oh my ... that would be a topic! If I just need to get off my hiney and get moving I love the sound track to the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. There is a "suite" on that production that describes the "Old West" and I love it. It has a little Copland, "Orange Blossom Special," and a theme that is as moving as Bonanza.
That's just for starters.
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I Will Lift my Eyes
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Dot Matrix
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Thanks Way sider.
This one got me through some stuff in the 80's - fighting some TWI weirdos
Don't Dream its Over
There is freedom within
There is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead
Many battles are lost
But you'll never reach the end of the road
While you're traveling with me
CHORUS:
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win
Now I'm towing my car
There's a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof
In the paper today
Tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the TV page
CHORUS
Now I'm walking again
To the beat of a drum
And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart
Only shadows ahead
Barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of liberation and relief
CHORUS
REPEAT UNTIL FADE:
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
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THIS song! I've listened to it and cried, sobbed deep throbbing tears that drench my face and anything near me. Even though it doesn't seem to point to God, I feel like the only way to cross those rivers of sorrow are with God's help - so I reach out a hand and I feel His presence and I move - out of my sorrow and into hope.......Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"
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Dot - This song healed me so much... I know its' been heard in churches - but this is how I first heard it and I prayed during the song....Rich Mullins "Sometimes by Step""Hold Me Jesus"
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Several songs motivate me. Some motivate me to be a better musician... others just motivate me to stand as a citizen of the U.S. of A.
With 4th of July quickly approaching, I'm planning to go to Corpus Christi, TX. Around 7:pm the CC Symphony will be assembled on the deck of the retired naval carrier, the USS Lexington. Thousands will gather at the shoreline of the bay. A barge will be all set up a few hundred yards out in the bay. The symphony will start playing the Stars and Stripes Forever, and one of the radio stations will broadcast it. Thousands of radios on the boardwalk and the Shoreline Drive medium will turn their radios up.
The fireworks will start firing off in the distance for the next 20 minutes or so, then everything qets quiet and the overture begins in the softest sweetness imaginable way. As the music begins to build to a crescendo, the fireworks will start again.
If I knew how to down load it...............You'd be able to hear the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovosky.
I was in the Army and played French Horn in the Army Band. I got involved with TWI in 1975 just as we were practicing music for the bi-centennial. Even today, listening to it and knowing the real work involved in performing it is as moving to me as most of the ministry songs I still sing while working around the house.
If you can get a copy of it with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the words will grip your throat.
The copy I have doesn't have the Choir on it and I am desparately seeking the production of it.
As I recall there is a part where the lyrics say:
"Oh Lord God Hear! OUR PRAYER! ! ! ! "
It is a gut wrenching plea that I think IMHO our country quit making years ago. And when it is sung in context of the music....I am more motivated and more emotional about the performance of this song than any Christmas songs.
In fact, 4th of July has come to mean more to me than Christmas. I would go so far as to say that what Christmas means to most people, the 4th means to me.
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Corpus Christi bay...many memories there...have a great time my friend ...it sounds wonderful
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Music is the inspiration of my soul...
A song written by Bill Gaither:
Thanks to Calvery:
Today I went back to the place where I used to go
Today I saw that same old crowd I used to know
When they asked me what had happened, I tried to tell them
Thanks to Calvery, I don't come here anymore
Thanks to Calvery, I am not the man I used to be
Thanks to Calvery, things are different than before
While the tears ran down my face, I tried to tell them
Thanks to Calvery, I don't come here anymore...
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Dot Matrix
The responses are GREAT SONGS!
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here it is"Thanks to Calvary" - George Younce - with the Cathedrals:
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I dunno about all of this.. sometimes music does not bring me strength as such, but enlightenment.
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