[Dialogue] REMEMBER WHEN THE MUSIC

[Janice Ulangca]

Len Hockley, this is so wonderful!  Thank you, thank you!!  

This community is profoundly priviledged because we have lived the experiences in Harry Chapin's words.  But it's not just about the past.  I love these words from the next to last verse:  


        And I dream that something's coming 

        And it is not just in the wind. 

        It's more than just tomorrow. 

        It's more than where we've been. 

        It offered me a promise 

        It's telling me--Begin.  


Friends, do listen to both these versions.  What contemporary news clippings would you put up to illustrate Harry Chapin's singing?

(you can hear this sung by Harry Chapin at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJhQrZuXheg&NR=1 

or by Bruce Springsteen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEvimXwEGgs&feature=related) 


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Then - do you want to sing along with Harry?  If you do, as I did, here are the words arranged close to how he sings the lines.  Janice Ulangca

Remember When The Music

by Harry Chapin

Remember when the music 

Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire. 

And as we sang the words 

It would set our minds on fire. 

We believed in things, 

And so we'd sing 

 

Remember when the music 

Brought us all together 

To stand inside the rain, 

And as we joined our hands 

We'd meet in the refrain. 

We had dreams to live, 

And we had hopes to give 

 

Don't you remember when the music 

Was the best of what we dreamed of  

For our children's time, 

And as we sang we worked 

For we knew time was just a lie. 

A gift we say. 

A gift the future gave

 

Of all the times I listened, 

And all the times I heard. 

All the melodies are missing 

And all the magic words 

And all those potent voices 

And all the choices we had then. 

How I'd love to find 

We had that kind of choice again 

 

Remember when the music 

Was a glow on the horizon 

Of every newborn day, 

And as we sang the sun came up 

To chase the dark away. 

And life was good 

For we knew we could 

 

 Remember when the music 

Brought the night across the valley. 

As the day went down 

And as we'd hum the melody 

We'd be safe inside the sound 

And so we'd sleep 

For we had dreams to keep 

 

And I dream that something's coming 

And it is not just in the wind. 

It's more than just tomorrow. 

It's more than where we've been. 

It offered me a promise 

It's telling me--Begin.  

I know it's that even something's worth believing in 

 

Remember when the music 

Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire 

And as we sang the words 

It would set our minds on fire 

We believed in things 

And so we'd sing 

And so we'd sing. 


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