Re: leonard cohen

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Dear Hayyim:  I, for one, would welcome that list of 
Jewish-related/Jewish-interest Leonard Cohen songs (and poetry?) that you 
offered a little while back, if and when you feel up to it--Robert Cohen


>From: Hayyim Feldman <hf (at) world(dot)std(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>CC: Lori Lippitz <MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com>
>Subject: Re: leonard cohen
>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:01:04 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
>
> >We have twice been asked to play his song, "Dance Me To The End of Love,"
> >as a bridal dance.  I believe that is because, although the content is
> >non-specific, the melody is a Russian derivative with a Jewish nuance.
> >(Our Russian violinist thinks so, anyway).
> >
> >Lori
> >Maxwell St.
>
>Thanks, Lori.  It makes me happy to know there are Yidn out there drawing
>on his work for their simchas, etc.  In fact, I might ask you to come and
>do the same for me when the time comes...  {:^)
>
>-Hayyim
>
>==
>
>     Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
>     Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
>     Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
>     Dance me to the end of love
>     Dance me to the end of love
>
>     Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
>     Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
>     Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
>     Dance me to the end of love
>
>     Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
>     Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
>     We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
>     Dance me to the end of love
>
>     Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
>     Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
>     Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
>     Dance me to the end of love
>
>     Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
>     Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
>     Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
>     Dance me to the end of love
>     Dance me to the end of love
>     Dance me to the end of love


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