Bring It on Home to Me

[donq]

Somehow this simple but wonderful song brings home to me. I hope it would do to you, too.
And I don't know a word of Auld Lang Syne's lyrics but still love it!
Enjoy!


Rebecca Pidgeon - Auld Lang Syne / Bring It on Home to Me





The birth of the grass and the melting snow
as we left the low lands far below.
When we spent the spring
on the Western shore
As happy as anyone ever before
And the winter that found us hunkered down
in the small stone cottage in the Ireland town
For months, that the blessed absence of life
When we never left each other's sight
I can taste the salt, I can smell the pete(?)
With you and the whiskey so bitter and sweet.

I remember the season
and the grass grow town
With our snug little attic
and the pub right 'round
As our friends came by
for a single of talk
and the vicious fight
on the cold dawn walk
I remembered the castle
where we vowed to meet
And the fog grow(?) in on Princess Street
When all the town was a cold gray stone
As I turned up my collar(?)
And I sat there...
...alone

If you've ever...
...changed your mind...
...about me then...
...leave and need me hard(?)
Oh oh
Bring to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me
(Yeah, yeah)
I'll give you jewelry...
...money too
But that's not all...
...all I'll do for you
Oh oh oh
Bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on home to me
(Yeah, yeah)

(You know I)
There's a hand my trusty friend
And give my hand o' thine!
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld (yeah)...
...lang (yeah)...
...syne

(You know I always)
Should old acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mine?
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld (yeah)...
...land (yeah)...
...syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld...
...lang...
...syne

[hera]

I enjoyed this very much donq, thanks for sharing

It seemed apt for the anniversary of Dad's passing

[donq]

Hi Hera,

Thanks for letting me know. And I'm glad that you like it. Recently, posting on this ghost town (Robert's words) made me felt akward. I had no idea whether anyone liked (or even read) my posts or not. I didn't mean I wanted everyone to like my posts. But it will not be funny to keep posting if everyone's hate my posts.

Anyway, if you'd like this song (or any video on youtube) to watch on your computer later, here is how to do so. (Sorry if you already know about it).

1. Today you could easily find so many videos/songs you like on youtube etc., so just copy their urls and go to any free download websites like the following:

y2mate.com/
www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001002.htm
keepvid.com/

(note-recently, keepvid doesn't seem to work any more but y2mate and computer hope still work great)

2. Pasting the urls and start downloading. Choose the quality you like. 480 or 720 will keep the lossless quality after converting. Right click on it and choose "save link target as".

I've mentioned about "lossless quality" in case you want to convert it into music later. Mp3 is the lowest quality of it. For example, normally a song's audio file is about 4 MB while lossless file (like wav. or flac) is about 40 MB. Sure, the more MB (lossless), the more sound quality. That's simple.
If you use PC, here's my recommendation. There is a great FREE converting program called "format factory" which could convert almost everything (both video and audio). I can convert many formats among many videos/audio format (or to lossless files like apple lossless (wav, flac, m4a etc.) to listen on my Ipod without any problem. Anyway, I don't know if the free program like this is available for Mac or not (if you us Mac). If that's the case, you might how some other programs like this for Mac, right?

As I use an old PC, Itune doesn't work well for me. My (so good) option is "copytrans". I believe it's also available for Mac. Again, it's a free program. I just plug my Ipod and transfer my lossless files (after converting) to it, or even could delete some files from it. Very easy to use for an old man like me.

P.S. No, no, didn't apt at all. Like in the movie said, "I believe you dad would want you to be happy".

[hera]

Thanks for the above info donq, the internet's a great way to find and listen to music isn't it, I use You tube a lot.
Hope you will post any other of your faves if you feel like sharing

[donq]

Hi Hera,

Hmm...some (if not most) of my favs are inappropriate to post here.  Anyway, as I mentioned about being "simple but wonderful", here are some songs I'd like to share. I'm not sure if I already posted them somewhere here, on another threads, some years ago. Sorry if it will take a long time to load this page (it happens if there are two or three videos on one thread). First I was thinking about posting each song on seperate thread, but, hey, it seems to have only you and I here, right? So hope you don't mind. 

Leonard Cohen-Love itself

Cohen wrote this song when he was ordian a Zen monk. The song is about (romantic) love and about some Buddhist sutras: the heart Sutra and the Lotus Sutra (nameless, formless etc.). :-)



The light came through the window
Straight from the sun above
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of love
In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the nameless makes
A name for one like me
I'll try to say a little more
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door
Then love itself
Love itself was gone
All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance
I'll try to say a little more
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door
Then love itself
Love itself was gone
Then I came back from where I'd been
My room, it looked the same
But there was nothing left between
The nameless and the name
All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance
I'll try to say a little more
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door
Then love itself
Love itself was gone
Love itself
Love itself was gone

The other two songs seem to be the romantic songs but I like them because somehow they really soothe me. :-)

Brothers Four-Slowly, Slowly (1962)



Slowly, slowly
The darkness comes so slowly
Softly, softly
The night is creeping in

Can't you see the shadows
Falling down the hill?
Can't you hear the quiet winds
Saying all is still, saying all is still?

Lonely, lonely
Without you I'm so lonely
Longing, longing
To hold you once again

How I miss the sweet sound
Of the baby's cry
And the soothing, soft sound
Of the lullaby, of the lullaby

Celtic Woman-My Lagan love



Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
There blows a lily fair
The twilight gleam is in her eye
The night is on her hair
And like a love-sick lennan-shee
She has my heart in thrall
Nor life I owe nor liberty
With love is lord of all.

And sometimes when the beetle's horn
Hath lulled the eve to sleep
I steal unto her shieling lorn
And thru the dooring peep.
There on the cricket's singing stone,
She stirs the bogwood fire,
And hums in sad sweet undertones
The song of heart's desire

The song of heart's desire.

[donq]

Ah! another one: Sharon Robinson-Summertime

Yes, it was ritten by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson. And it's a very relaxing song, somehow.



Summertime when will you come?
I wanna put my light things on
I wanna put my winter life away
Summertime I need a sunny day

I want those peaches on the table
Want the watermelon red
And the warm sun creeping through the window
To ease me out of bed

I want the sand out there to lie on
And the sea out there to swim
So my heart can take a holiday
From breaking over him

Summertime when will you come?
I wanna put my light things on
Wanna put my winter life away
Summertime I need a sunny day

And I want to drive forever
Wanna roll my windows down
Get the breeze back on my body
Get my feet back on the ground

I want the sand out there to lie on
And the sea out there to swim
So my heart can take a holiday
From breaking over here

Summertime when will you come?
I wanna put my light things on
I wanna put my winter life away
Summertime I need a sunny day

P.S. Yes, the page loads so slow. Sorry about that.

[hera]

More wonderful music donq, thank you so much for sharing and i've enjoyed their peaceful melodies while ploughing through the daily email chore

Of course this curious female is wondering what music you would consider inappropriate to post here haha. How can music ever be inappropriate for anything sprang to mind, but possible heavy metal on a forum for old age pensioners might fit the bill ? Lol.