Tuesday, May 30, 2006

music for the something

So I was humming my way home yesterday when my oh-so-excellent Creative mp3 player played this song for me. Katie put the Elizabethtown soundtrack on it ages ago and this is the first time I’ve listened to one of the songs properly. It’s not a style I’d normally like but it’s simplicity, lyrics and generally harmony appealed and so I’m recommending it. As always, the title links to a 30 second sample.

Hard times - eastmountainsouth (Elizabethtown soundtrack)

let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
while we all sup sorrow with the poor
there's a song that will linger forever in our ears
oh, hard times come again no more

'tis a song… a sigh of the weary
hard times… hard times come again no more
many days you have lingered around my cabin door
oh… hard times come again no more

while we seek mirth and beauty
and music light and gay
there are frail ones fainting at the door
though their voices are silent
their pleading looks will say
oh, hard times come again no more

'tis a song… a sigh of the weary
hard times... hard times come again no more
many days you have lingered around my cabin door
oh, hard times come again no more

'tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave
'tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
oh, hard times come again no more

'tis a song…a sigh of the weary
hard times… hard times come again no more
many days you have lingered around my cabin door
oh, hard times come again no more
oh, hard times come again no more
Posted by Fi McKenzie at 05:10:25
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