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A beautiful Korean folk lullaby I sang once to audition into a children's choir back when I was younger. More recently I've wanted to play it on the violin and arrange it for a chamber ensemble (both of which I haven't had time to do), but this piano trio arrangement does such a beautiful job already.
The cello is perfect for the melody - deep, full of the longing and loneliness of the both the child and the child's mother described in the lyrics. I've always wondered how a lullaby could be so sad, and simultaneously juxtapose the mother's need to provide and the need to spend time with her loved one for whom she provides.
Original Korean:
엄마가 섬그늘에 굴따러 가면 아기가 혼자 남아 집을 보다가 바다가 불러주는 자장노래에 팔베고 스르르 잠이 듭니다 아기는 잠을 곤히 자고 있지만 갈매기 울음 소리 맘이 설레어 다 못찬 굴바구니 머리에 이고 엄마는 모랫길을 달려옵니다
English Translation: (Loosely translated)
While his mother went to the island to pick oysters The baby was left to watch the house alone And to the lullaby the sea sings He falls asleep upon his arm.
While the baby sleeps peacefully The cries of the seagulls quicken his mother's heart Bearing the unfilled oyster basket on her head, She runs home on the sandy road.
Don't save anything out in the water, for the swim back.
In Gattaca, Vincent tells his brother the secret of winning the swimming contest - he never saved anything for the swim back.
In a way, our walk with God is not so different. We are to swim where He asks, even walk upon the waters, and seek Him as the only source of direction and strength, saving nothing of our own to sustain us or to provide us for a way to turn back to the safe shores.
Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) by Hillsong United
Bridge:
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Saviour
the same basic principle?
I remember learning that in Europe back in the day (I forget which countries specifically), children celebrated birthdays according to the day of the saint they were named after instead of the date of their physical birth. So in a way, they basically manually-tuned their birthdays way before we started auto-tuning voices...
