[Oe List ...] The Earth Belongs To All

[W. J.]

In my crusty old age, I can't recall a connection with The Sound of Music. But I know the tune appears in Cabaret, written by John Kander, with the song titled "The Future Belongs to Me."
   
  from the internet:
  "The melody of the German patriotic song called Die Wacht am Rhein is adapted by John Kander and Fred Ebb...in their musical play and movie Cabaret as a fictional Nazi anthem, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me", meant to be reminiscent both of Die Wacht am Rhein and the Horst Wessel Lied."
  "The Horst Wessel Song was not, as previously stated, the German song sung, famously, in the emotional scene Rick's Cafe Amercaine in Casablanca, only to be drowned out by the Marseillaise!. As several correspondents point out, that song was an older patriotic, but (non-Nazi song called  Wacht am  Rhein (The Watch on the Rhine?"
   
  Marshall
   
  

Bill Schlesinger <bschlesinger.pv at tachc.org> wrote:
        v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Um, I think the tune was invented for Sound of Music, so there may be copyright issues, but not sure it’s really a German traditional song
 Remember ‘Edelweiss?’
   
    Bill Schlesinger
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  From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Bill Salmon
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:04 AM
To: Ecumenical Order
Subject: [Oe List ...] The Earth Belongs To All

   
    The Earth Belongs To All

    Tune: The Future Belongs To All **

     

    The flowers is the meadow are greeting the sun, the trees in the forest stand talo.

    But gather together to march as one: the earth belongs to all. 

     

    Chorus:

        All of the goods of the earth and all decilsions of history, And all the inventions of humanness belong to all men [sic] through me.

     

    The branch of the linden is leafy and green, the maples are golden in fall.

    But somewhere a glory awaits unseen: the earth belongs to all.

     

    The cries of the innocent sound in their pain, the tyrant has vanquished the small.

    A powerful ruler lies bound in chains, till earth belongs to all.

     

    A dream of the future is beckoning me. Like waltz music heard at a ball.

    The morning will come when all men [sic] shall see: the earth belongs to all.

     

    Oh, Father, Oh Father, Mysterious Power, your children are gathered to call:

    Use us as thy servant to hasts the hour the earth belongs to all. 

     

    ** CAVEAT:    The tune was popular in Germany during the Nazi administration. 

     

    From Bill Salmon


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