{"id":3062,"date":"2005-08-13T00:18:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T07:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/08\/13\/3062.html"},"modified":"2005-08-13T00:18:50","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T07:18:50","slug":"hearth-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/08\/13\/hearth-and-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearth and fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Gordon Bok song just came up in iTunes. I first heard it on a Heather Rose Jones tape, one of the first filk albums I bought; apparently the only version I currently have is the snippet from the Rise Up Singing<\/cite> teaching CDs. If you don't know it, you can get some sense of the tune from the only version the iTunes Music Store has (though it's not my favorite version): \"Hearth and Fire<\/a>.\" First verse and chorus:<\/p>\n

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Hearth and fire be ours tonight<\/p>\n

And all the dark outside,<\/p>\n

Fair the night, and kind on you<\/p>\n

Wherever you may bide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And I'll be the sun upon your head,<\/p>\n

The wind about your face;<\/p>\n

My love upon the path you tread<\/p>\n

And upon your wanderings, peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Which reminds me roundaboutly of another Bok song, also available in a non-Bok version at the iTMS: \"Turning Toward the Morning<\/a>.\" Ed Blachman once quoted this to me in SWAPA long ago, possibly in response to my writing about my mother's death, and I found it comforting even before I learned the tune.<\/p>\n

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Oh, my Joanie, don't you know<\/p>\n

That the stars are swinging slow<\/p>\n

And the seas are rolling easy, as they did so long ago<\/p>\n

If I had a thing to give you, I would tell you one more time<\/p>\n

That the world is always turning toward the morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It ain't much, but it's what I've got.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Arthur E, btw, for providing much-needed hugs earlier.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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