MELANIE- LAY DOWN (Candles In The Rain) WOODSTOCK

LYRICS AND DESCRIPTION-
Melanie's full version of Lay Down
with The Edwin Hawkins Singers
(Original Vinyl) Released 1970
Footage of Woodstock 1969

LYRICS TO CANDLES IN THE RAIN
Little sisters of the sun lit
candles in the rain,
fed the world on oats and raisins
candles in the rain
li the fire to the soul
who never knew his friend
meher baba lives again
candles in the rain
to be there is to remember
lay it down again
lay down
lay down
lay it down again
men can live as brothers
candles in the rain....

LYRICS TO LAY DOWN (CANDLES IN THE RAIN)
CHORUS
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the ones who stand and frown
we were so close, there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we had caught the same disease
and we all sang songs of peace
CHORUS
so raise the candles high cause if you
don't we could stay black against the night
oh raise them higher again and if you
do we could stay dry against the rain
CHORUS
we were so close there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we had caught the same disease
and we all sang songs of peace
some came to sing, some came to pray
some came to keep the dark away
so raise the candles high
cause if you don't we could stay
black against the sky
oh oh raise them higher again
and if you do we could stay dry against the rain
CHORUS

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[videomaniac108]

@mobydoug I'm an old grunt(11B10) like you who served in I Corps, 23rd(Americal) div in 69/70. When I went to school on the GI Bill in the early 70s, I sometimes had problems with professors and students who thought that we were either murderous moral degenerates or brainless dupes of the military machine. I tried to be honest with them that we were, for the most part, just ordinary people thrown into a bewildering and frightening situation, just trying to survive.

[brilliantico]

It's been over 35 years since I heard this song of Melanie. All I could say then, and all I can say now is AWESOME!! It's like being reunited with an old friend: Joyous and exhilarating!

THANKS for posting this gem!!

[MiceElf2]

You're welcome.

[Orb37]

@videomaniac108

They're the indoctrinated ones 108 - and thanks for your service.

[MisterTom1001]

This piece moves me every time, I love it.

[revjim1968]

@tommerrigan1956 You don't have a clue!

[geocoop60]

40+ years later & this song is still so beautiful!

[terrybeaton]

@whofanray That's what they say, isn't it. We had to go overseas to a tiny country that most people had never heard of to " defend freedom". After slaughtering a couple million people and burning and mining the country so that children still die almost everday, we left. Now we're good freinds with the country. Maybe being good freinds makes everyone safe and free. Not wars that make certain people very rich. Try to limit repeating Republican bumper stickers and think like a real man. Not a robot

[steeplepossum39]

BRILLIANT!

[378agra]

I do not know if there is only one scene where Melanie is presented in

Woodstock Festival in 1971 singing lay down. I tried, but

not found. It has a video in which she speaks of the festival with a French reporter and a few people comment on it.

But this video, it now older and fatter, does not sing as well as in the seventies, which is a shame.

[tommerrigan1956]

@whofanray No one's 'freedom' was defended, but two million people were killed. Vietnam is still a communist country and the US is one of its biggest trading partners. Duded, just because the government tells your to pick up a gun doesn't make killing moral. Defend your own freedom--TO THINK.

[whofanray]

@tommerrigan1956

without them defending our freedom...you would not be able to say things like that..............