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Those who disdain musicals say they don't like them because "people just don't burst into song in real life."
But I do.
[...]from the beginning of recorded time until the advent of recorded sound, lots of people burst into song. Literature, for instance, is full of merry wayfarers warbling as they, y'know, merrily way fare.
So do I... Or I used to, more often, in the past.
I'd sing: "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to work we go!" when I was in college, on my way from the dorms to the academic building, in the morning (this was before I got dependant on coffe; it got my brain going). Others probably thought I was completely mad.
And when I was stuck at grad school, while my dying at home, I'd get through the day without a breakdown by singing "The Sailor's Prayer":*
So this piece made me tingle, in my brain and heart.
*It's a modern, copyrighted song, but a Google Search of "Sailors prayer" copyright song isn't giving me the name of the author. My sieve-like memory wants to say it's by Stephen Lee. If anyone reading this knows better, please correct me.
Those who disdain musicals say they don't like them because "people just don't burst into song in real life."
But I do.
[...]from the beginning of recorded time until the advent of recorded sound, lots of people burst into song. Literature, for instance, is full of merry wayfarers warbling as they, y'know, merrily way fare.
So do I... Or I used to, more often, in the past.
I'd sing: "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to work we go!" when I was in college, on my way from the dorms to the academic building, in the morning (this was before I got dependant on coffe; it got my brain going). Others probably thought I was completely mad.
And when I was stuck at grad school, while my dying at home, I'd get through the day without a breakdown by singing "The Sailor's Prayer":*
- I will not lie me down, this rain a-raging,
I will not lie me down, in such a storm!
And if this night be unblest,
I shall not take my rest
Until we reach another shore!"
So this piece made me tingle, in my brain and heart.
*It's a modern, copyrighted song, but a Google Search of "Sailors prayer" copyright song isn't giving me the name of the author. My sieve-like memory wants to say it's by Stephen Lee. If anyone reading this knows better, please correct me.
