[HANASHIR:13560] Sheet music for Carol Boyd Leon's "Nakum Uvaninu"

[Jaugshir <Jaugshir...>]

Carol sent the following response privately to my request for music to sing 
at the gala benefit honoring two of our congregation members.  Unfortunately 
she is snowed in and can't get to a fax machine to send me the sheet music.  
It is in her life cycles song book.  Does anyone out there have the song book 
and a fax machine?  I would appreciate it if you could fax "Nakum Uvaninu" to 
me at (847) 831-1440.  I have Carol's permission, and I am also buying the 
song book from her so I will have it for next time.

Thanks for your help.
--Judith Golden  

P.S.  Carol also sent me her song "You are my child" to sing at my daughter's 
Bat Mitzvah last year.  If is a beautiful song.  My recommendation for any 
parent wanting to sing it to their child is to practice it a lot before hand 
in order to be able to get through it without crying.  My daughter loved 
having me sing it to her because she knew how much it spoke from my heart 
(she heard me choking up while I was practicing).  My mother hadn't heard it 
before and it really meant a lot to her listening to her child (me) sing to 
her grandchild (my daughter).  It was one of the very special moments in a 
day filled with very special moments.  Thanks, Carol!!


Judith,

If you want a lively, rousing, get-'em-clapping-and-dancing kind of song to 
honor volunteers whose efforts helped build and strengthen the congregation, 
may I suggest "Nakum Uvaninu."  It's Chassidic in feeling.

The lyrics are:

Va-yom-ru na-kum u-va-ni-nu
va-y'chaz-ku y'de-hem la-to-va.
Va-yom-ru na-kum u-va-ni-nu
va-y'chaz-ku y'de-hem la-to-va.

And they said, "Let us rise up and build."
So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
We have come very far.
"Hineinu! Here we are!"
Let us rise, rise up and build!

Lai lai lai lai lai, "Hineinu!"
Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai.
Lai lai lai lai lai, "Mir zeynen do!"
Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai

It was the CAJE 27 theme song and has since been used for a variety of 
different occasions including, most recently, the 40th anniversary 
celebration of a day school.  I think it would work well to honor 2 people 
at once.

. . . 

-- Carol


Carol Boyd Leon
Songwriter/Cantorial Soloist/Music Educator
E-mail:  CBLeon (at) hotmail(dot)com
Web page:  http://www.geocities.com/CBoydLeon