Happiness-a-day meme, counting down to 2009:

[capri0mni]

Day five, Seven Days to go until the Year (I think, I'm losing count):


I managed to hammer out that Winter Solstice / New Year song I said I was going to write, back at the beginning of the month (YAY)! And it's about/to Frigg with her distaff, even though I don't mention her by name:

THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN
By Ann Magill

How deep and clear, these winter skies!
How infinite these shining stars?
The Earth, in dreaming slumber lies,
And wonder cracks my awe-struck heart.

Chorus:
To the Queen of Heaven is my prayer,
'tis She, who spins the Thread of Time,
'tis She who twines the sunlight clear,
And weaves the Tapestry of Life.

The Goddess spins another year.
Another thread in her design
Our pleasure's song and sorrow's tears,
The weave of flesh and warp of time.

(Chorus)

My wonder's deeper than my speech.
My wonder's greater than my heart.
I pray that in Her Tapestry
I'll know the joy of my small part.

(Chorus)

(Repeat first verse and chorus)

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To get your computer to play the tune for this, copy the emboldened code below, and paste it into the text window at Concertina.net's ABC Convert-A-Matic (might be easier to right-click, to open in a new window) and click [submit]. This will lead you to another page with the link "Midi Music File;" click that, and your computer should play this tune for you automatically. If it doesn't, you might want to try turning off any pop-up blockers.

X:1
T:Queen of Heaven
C:Ann Magill
M:4/4
Q:1/4=94
K:Bb
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G4GB2B|c2B2A2G2|F4F2E2|
FE2DC2B,2|C6z2|CCF3FE2|
DC2D2C3|EE3GG2A|B3BG3G|
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[Edit: Oops! I missed a measure; four notes were missing from the score. They're where they should be, now]

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I also learned, tonight (Via NPR), that every Christmas and New Year's Eve, all the stockbrokers stop what they're doing right before the closing bell, and sing the chorus to "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie," to help keep up their spirits, and bring good luck in the New Year. Sounds like a damned good ritual for the Winter Solstice, if you ask me! ;-)

Cho: "Wait till the sun shines, Nellie,
When the clouds go drifting by,
We will be happy, Nellie, Don't you sigh.
Down Lover's Lane we'll wander,
Sweethearts you and I.
Wait till the sun shines, Nellie, Bye and bye.

Comments

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

Ran across this earlier today. Seems right in your field of interest at the moment.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/santas-family-tree/

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

That's Great, Tyler! Thanks!

(I'm wondering if it's a reasonable size for printing out and making into a poster).

Oh, an this has been a perennial interest of mine since almost as long as I can remember, rather than a momentary one. It's just that this is the one time of year when I'm at greater liberty to share it out loud ;-)

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I like your carol.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm glad it came to me when it did... It might have been waiting until Frigg's Distaff crossed the celestial meridian (which was some time last night). ;-)

I hope this day is filled with happy for you, and overflows into the coming year.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Thank you and I hope the coming year is kind to you too.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

:-) *Snugs*

[brassfire.livejournal.com]

Love the lyrics!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Finding an appropriate rhyme for "Life" was giving me fits until I decided to go with an internal rhyme, instead.