Long before 'Rap' we listened and got enchanted by music and the words sung with the melody. Here are a few of them to tickle your auditory senses. I hope you enjoy them. Click on the blue underlined web-links of each song with the internet connected.
Bing Crosby - White Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yg5g_Xl-uU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - Boney M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPBvSBRaLfo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Boat on the river - Boney M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oac4W2VUSZM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
By the rivers of Babylon - Boney M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CnYWCWAeA
Country road take me home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNuIDpmkTFw
Oh Susannah - Old Confederate song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfv9FDnMcaI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
When Irish eyes are smiling - Joni James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-tJwnMRCDA
Whispering hope - Mary Duff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8kW1GpzidM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And Finally - 'Danny Boy' - Celtic Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3hpGpaMbgc
Read the speculations about the origin of this song:-
DAVEW0071
06-10-2000, 05:12 PM
I always assumed the song was a father talking to his son about being the boy being called to war. Don't know about Irish bagpipes being used as a call to arms, but the line "'Tis you must go and, 'tis I must bide" I took to be the father's way of saying, "I've already been to war, I'm too old to fight. You're the one being conscripted now, so don't go out and get yourself killed. There will always be a welcome home for you." And "the summer's gone and all the roses falling" could be a poetic references to the father's advanced years, being in the autumn of his life.
This is all mere speculation on my part, of course.
The song sung by Bing Crosby in the mid 1940s:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2QtBYR7NJs
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