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

[Charles or Doris Hahn]

Janice, where are you? Seems we have multiple issues
here--tune, words, etc. Certainly the last verse or
coda or whatever it is won't work. Our heart was in
the right place, but at this moment, there are a lot
of gullys to jump.
Doris Hahn


--- Bill Salmon <wsalmon at cox.net> wrote:

>     I didn't mean to imply the song was from the
> Sound of Music--anyway, that would be Austria and
> not Germany. My personal experience is making the
> effort to sing our words to some German young men
> and they laughed at me and then were incensed
> because the tune, "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" was
> popular during WWII in Nazi Germany. 
>     Our words are great, but being ignorant in
> several languages can get us into trouble and not
> know it. Also, I've had that experience when living
> in South Korea and while associating with Mexican
> nationals at church. A long time ago I learned that
> humility often is learned in humiliation.
>     Bill Salmon
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Bill Bailey 
>   To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' 
>   Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:58 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] The Earth Belongs To
> All
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> 
>   Not The sound of Music, but the Cabaret (A song by
> a young German man called "tomorrow belongs to me."
> We took the tune and rewrote the words.
> 
> 
> 
>   Bill Bailey
> 
> 
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net
> [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Bill
> Schlesinger
>   Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:00 PM
>   To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
>   Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] The Earth Belongs To
> All
> 
> 
> 
>   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
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>   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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