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ward4e said:wow I feel quite shallow. er... not poking fun but I know i'll be singing this song at one point, and i'm sure people would be singing it with me. So I guess in the spirit of comino community it would be a great ice breaker...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uActryeSj7w
sillydoll said:There is an international hymn of pilgrimage called the "Dum Paterfamilias" . It is considered to be the first pilgrim song and also one of the first to be sung partly in the vernacular, in German or Flemish.
According to Eusebio Goicoecha Arrondo of Spain: " It is a great pity and a historical anomaly that 20th century pilgrims do not sing along the Way or at the end of it in Santiago. This route, which caused so many songs to blossom over hill and vale in Europe, has become silent and voiceless. A horde of pilgrims gather in Santiago; its cathedral overflows with people who have come from all over Europe, but what the Codex Calixtinus relates does, not happen today:
"Gratulemur et letemur; Cuncte gentes, lingue, tribus illuc vunt clamantes: Sursum perge, gaude ante; ultreia, esus eia."
(All peoples and languages come to Santiago singing: Ultreia, esus eia, forward, take heart ...)
There should not be a Congress without singing or a pilgrimage without song. It would be very fine to hear this hymn sung together by all pilgrims along all the paths to Santiago and finally to sing it
altogether in the cathedral of Compostela, on the European Plaza Mayor and in the Obradairo whose towers are a skyward extension of the Way, the luminous path which pierces the velvet of the night in Compostela and joins its counterpart, the Milky Way, that shining galaxy and
enormous pentagram of notes set in stars, a heavenly rendering in light of the great European epic on the earthly path to Santiago de Compostela."
renegadepilgrim said:I just posted a blog listing my ten favorite songs to walk to. I made a Camino Walking mix I would play for the pilgrims in the morning as they were leaving the albergue....check it out:
http://renegadepilgrim.blogspot.com/201 ... tiago.html
falcon269 said:
Abbeydore said:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl8J_mfMC5o&feature=related[/youtube]
OK I dare anyone to sing this next year & become a 'real pilgrim'
I can email the words to anyone if you cannot get from here
almhath said:The song that sticks with me, that to me, in my heart, represents the Camino, so far, which I enjoyed in "The Way," is Alanis Morissette singing "Thank U."
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you ... &FORM=LKVR
It seemed to be played at a time in the film when the characters were getting themselves together, a good and happy time. (I also liked the way the journalist was Mace-ing his staff!)
Ciao
Almha
David said:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ2iCF3pP8E&playnext=1&list=PL3813DD4CB5E15AC1&index=6[/youtube]
This one does it for me - always brings a lump to my throat
renegadepilgrim said:I just posted a blog listing my ten favorite songs to walk to. I made a Camino Walking mix I would play for the pilgrims in the morning as they were leaving the albergue....check it out:
http://renegadepilgrim.blogspot.com/201 ... tiago.html
walkingtotheend said:Love that canned heat.
For me the song is Mr Bojangles as it was the first song on my iPod 'walking play list' each morning start when my wife and I did our first camino in 2009.
Hearing it anytime since takes me back to those first hundred or so metres walking in the early morning quite and stillness whilst the sun came up.
It always brings a tear to my eye
Ian
I agree - brings back memories of the meseta, and other, deeper layers of memories - funny how this song evokes both hope and grief. I have lived long enough to experience both emotions at the same time. This song hits me where I live, and hard.Eva Cassidy's version of 'Fields of Gold' is still my number one after several Caminos! You can read into the lyrics what you want. Buen Camino!
p.s Sorry Sting, but Eva nails it!
It seemed to be played at a time in the film when the characters were getting themselves together, a good and happy time. (I also liked the way the journalist was Mace-ing his staff!)
I don't believe it!!!
All these suggestions and I can't see the obvious one
"You'll never walk alone"
Fix you by Coldplay. Beautiful words.
Despite being an Everton supporter I sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" a number of times with my fellow pilgrims.Thanks Ned for this suggestion. It has great sentiment for me. I walked the camino Frances this year in memory of my parents. My father was a Liverpudlian, a Liverpool football club supporter, and a fan of Jerry and the Pacemakers. We played this song at his funeral. I will add this song to the selection of music for my next camino. I can't imagine why I didn't think of it before. Thanks again.
.....Camino Frances with my daughter: http://magwood.wordpress.com.
Despite being an Everton supporter I sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" a number of times with my fellow pilgrims.
Usually after a glass or two of red wine!!
Two pilgrims I walked with a lot bought me a T Shirt - Nunca Caminaras Solo!!!
It is my favourite T Shirt now
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This Old person found himself singing the song by Cat Stevens
This is a merry, sweet song...very jolly and romantic. A great love song.wow I feel quite shallow. er... not poking fun but I know i'll be singing this song at one point, and i'm sure people would be singing it with me. So I guess in the spirit of comino community it would be a great ice breaker...
oh .. here is my favorite "camino" songs
Rise- Eddie Vedder (most of "into the wild" soundtrack makes for good walking)
You can't always get what you want -- The Rolling Stones
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Better Days - Eddie Vedder (again)
I still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
The Long Road -- Eddie Vedder (the trifecta)
I always thought certain bands like U2, The Indigo Girls, Pearl Jam, Bob Marley and the Wailers, and Stevie Wonder.. their music lends itself to the Camino.
Art Garfunkel's Woyaya:
I bought this CD years ago... I still love it Brian Kennedy - The Great War of Words
There are two songs that I reckon would make perfect Camino songs...
Captured -
And the best song... Halfway Home - sadly I could find no video link anywhere but if you use spotify you'll find it here https://play.spotify.com/album/4H3pPVjTqgiSPoMH6a7wKI
oh my god thank you for the real belly laugh i just had ,still smiling. i sang this song to my self while walking on that blasted,hot, dusty , fly infested roman road,,the only thing that kept me kind of sane,??wow I feel quite shallow. er... not poking fun but I know i'll be singing this song at one point, and i'm sure people would be singing it with me. So I guess in the spirit of comino community it would be a great ice breaker...
Love it when good old happy threads are revived.
Reminded me....One long day on the Camino my daughter and I had some fun thinking of a top list of related songs...i can't remember all or the exact listing but includedwow I feel quite shallow. er... not poking fun but I know i'll be singing this song at one point, and i'm sure people would be singing it with me. So I guess in the spirit of comino community it would be a great ice breaker...
Reminded me....One long day on the Camino my daughter and I had some fun thinking of a top list of related songs...i can't remember all or the exact listing but included
Walk of life...dire straits
The long and winding road...beatles
5000miles ...proclaimers
I still haven't found what I'm looking for...U2
Walk this way..rundmc
Misty mountain hop...led zeppelin
Walk on...U2
Six days on the road...taj Mahal
Here comes the Sun...the Beatles
Take good care of your feet...the beach boys
Etc
And the one I found myself mostly singing....King of the Road...roger miller
Oh and of course this......Spanish Stroll ...mink de ville
I saw them in person, with the Velvet Underground in Cleveland in 1969 or 1970. Those years were kind of a blur, but I remember the concert.I'm still in the planning stages and haven't been there yet but my theme, and mantra, as I prepare seem to both be the same song: "Going Up The Country", by Canned Heat. Odd that this would come up. I just posted this version in conjunction with my Camino plans today on my Facebook page. This is from the film of the '69 Woodstock.
Maybe not the best representation of the Camino, although the last verse is about drinking with companions, but a great walking/hiking song, is Marching to Pretoria. However it has been my favorite hiking song since summer camp in the late 1950s. Here is a link to a version by the Highwaymen, from the 1960s.Since @lalaone has resurrected this old thread I'll add my tuppence worth A lovely song from Zoe Mulford. Inspired by a church beside a US highway but just as true for those of us who move at a slower pace! Some of you might be more familiar with another of Zoe's powerful lyrics - she also wrote "The President Sang Amazing Grace".
Nailed it, @Bradypus! Thread closed?Since @lalaone has resurrected this old thread I'll add my tuppence worth A lovely song from Zoe Mulford. Inspired by a church beside a US highway but just as true for those of us who move at a slower pace! Some of you might be more familiar with another of Zoe's powerful lyrics - she also wrote "The President Sang Amazing Grace".