[Dialogue] Re Cabaret lyrics

[Janice Ulangca]

What an amazing group of people this is!  Some of us have one bit of information, some remember another bit, and someone can pull it all together.  Abe and I were there, too, Martha - not in the front row - but what a great event that was.  There was wisdom that we needed the power of memorable music pointing to the profound in our inner lives, if we were to have any chance of pulling off the astounding expanded witness to possibility that became the bicentennial Town Meetings.  Shocking was the right word.  These lyrics fit the Cabaret theme song so perfectly that perhaps in the heart of God they were the original words...
Janice Ulangca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KroegerD at aol.com 
  To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net 
  Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 10:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Re Cabaret lyrics


  A STRANGE GLADNESS 
  Tune: Cabaret Medley


  Shocking! My life's anew, vict'ry! Shocking! It's certitude, trembling! 

  Illumination. Light within' without: I am that light, there's meaning everywhere 

  And it is shocking! It's all come clear, it is-the other world the other world, the other world.


  Nothing to hate now and nothing to fear within the human pain 

  Oh, it's the other world, my friend, come lay your burdens down. 

  Moments of rapture and seizures of bliss within the human woes 

  Oh, it's the other world, my friend, come, live triumphantly.


  The other world is in this world 

  It's part of every life for those who have the eyes to see and choose it. 

  Living my life and embracing my death within the human way 

  Oh, it's the other world, my friend. come' dance a happy death!


  Shocking! My life's a new vict'ry! Shocking! It's certitude, trembling! 

  Illumination, Light within, without: I am that light, there's meaning everywhere 

  And it is shocking! It's all come clear, it is-the other world, the other world, the other world. 


  In a message dated 9/1/2008 8:52:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, synergi at yahoo.com writes:
          Thanks, Martha. But I'm such a dummy, I mislaid my songbook 30 years ago. Could you provide the lyrics?
          Marshall

          --- On Mon, 9/1/08, Martha Shepp <martha.shepp at gmail.com> wrote:

            From: Martha Shepp <martha.shepp at gmail.com>
            Subject: [Dialogue] Re Cabaret lyrics
            To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net
            Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 6:17 PM


            I was there, summer of '72, age 14. Front row. Stunning!

            The lyrics are on page 21 of the "Songs for those who care" songbook. The song title is "A Strange Gladness" to the tune "Cabaret medley."

            -- 
            Martha Christine Shepp

            (603) 677.3987 home tellie
            (865) 789.0209 cell tellie
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