Go Tell it on the Mountains
I’m about to write a tome
Of how Universal Language
Of music is well known.
If Music be the food of Love
As the Bard wrote in a play
Then Endless Love would have to be
How music is displayed
But firstly In the Beginning
Before language took a part
The Sounds of Music that were heard
Were from nature’s work of art.
The hills were alive, and so were trees
There was Music in the Air.
Man was not yet on the earth
But music was everywhere
Waves on the Shore
And trickling streams
We Hear the Song
Everywhere it seems
Six Million years Ago
Mankind on earth arrived
And heard the music in the air.
It kept them all alive
They copied the sound
Like Tiktok today.
They took it Nice and Easy
Finding it fun to play
Can you Imagine
A choir of the past
Where people sang
With sounds that Last?
Heard off Far, Far Away
By others on the land
Finding Friends in Low Places
Better than was planned.
But The Great Creation
Helping the song along
Was the musical instruments
Which supported the Song.
Now everyone had The Voice
To sing was part of life
But when it came to instruments
Making them caused strife
To Find A Way if using wood
Pipes or recorder worked the best
Carving a tube with finger holes
Created sounds, adding zest.
So now we have The Singer
We also have support
A group of entertainers
Making functions, fun, a rort.
Now where is all this leading
And just where do we stand?
Well, suddenly there’s musicians
And a Leader of the Band.
We have come A Long Way
Since man first heard the sound
Making people say I Want To Sing
So, sorrows can be drowned.
We now have The Entertainer
Going from Town to Town
Receiving goods for playing
Cheering people feeling down
The music and the songs
Told a Story: short and long
And those became our history
And taught us Right From Wrong.
Good News Travels Fast
By men of many nations
Those stories very much the same
No matter a person’s station
And though Across The Hills
The language it was strange
Encouraged to Join In and Sing
The music was the same.
Musicians now Around The World
Play notes and similar sounds
Our forefathers learned of course
From nature all around.
So now you seen that language
No matter where one lives
Makes sense when there is music
Both have got a lot to give.
And music as we know it
A Language has become
A Universal Language
Spoken by every tongue.
Julie Finch-Scally ©
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