Pete Seeger: Ode to Joy

Some folk music for you. More Seeger to come, I imagine.

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Music

Tags:

• folk
• peace
• unite

[Crazykid006]

I want to tell you a story: Some mornings, the air is very clean and fresh. This morning was like that. I got up around 8 and went outside. I immediatly got my flute and played this song. There was a fisherman on a bridge near me. soon others came to listen. by the end of the song i had an audience. I finished, and nobody said a word. The fisher that was there first stopped as i was walking home and said "Thank You."

Sorry for such a long posting.

[IANANDERICSMOM]

Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the banjo! Listen to the words also; this is wonderful.

[TheNancy2525]

Perfect. This song is the essence of joy, the music, the lyrics, the chorus joining in...it brings tears to my eyes. It is just about my favorite song on the planet.

[bfandreasyt]

@Crazykid006 Put the original lyrics into context. Imagine you were at the mercy of your sovereign who could choose your profession for you and reassign you at whim. Scholar today, peasant tomorrow. Your sovereign being a petty duke, baron or something. Every few 50 miles another. Your one best chance was the likes of Napoleon. This was the reality in Schillers time. So using the original as a drinking toast was quite bold.

Pete Seeger added another verse to this great hymn to freedom.

[HollyLimbo]

@Crazykid006 A lovely little vignette ! Such things are what makes life good.

[bfandreasyt]

@Crazykid006 That's how stuff gets started. It's a song abot personal freedom and against destiny and frankly the most important song about being human ever. Full stop.

Simply singing it brightens anothers day. And that's what this is about.

Thank you.

[bfandreasyt]

A new stanza to the Ode to Joy has been added. I can't ever think of Schiler's Ode to Joy without the glorious music of Beethoven. And this one.

Let's keep adding to it.

Rettung von Tyrannenketten,

Großmut auch dem Bösewicht,

Hoffnung auf den Sterbebetten,

Gnade auf dem Hochgericht!

[iveyswaringen]

great clip keep it up =)

[jazz31162]

I just like the banjo part.

[MrJoinuptoday]

The words, the message is so haunting. In this world, so filled with animosity and divisions, this is one message that should be spread everywhere. All for one, and one for all.

[RevNTheogen]

@kojak543 you're right, his voice in this is more gruff and melancholy than I usually hear I thought it might have been from the rainbow quest.

[kojak543]

@RevNTheogen sorry friend this is the one and only Pete Seeger