Do you hear what I hear? (Bing Crosby)

 Do you hear what I hear? (Bing Crosby) 

This is a song written in October 1962, with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne. The pair, married at the time, wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Regney had been invited by a record producer to write a Christmas song, but he was hesitant due to the commercialism of Christmas. It has sold tens of millions of copies and has been covered by hundreds of artists. - Wikipedia 

If fiction is the name of the game, I figured I’d move to a fiction that is not associated with dogma and unsubstantiated truth claims. Here is the second of two songs I’ve so far done in appreciation of LOTR. It’s not wintery but that’s ok. Still fun, and kept the original song’s endeavor to move from conflict to resolution and peace. 

 

Said the night wind to its wizard friend 
Do you see what I see? 

Way up in the sky, wizard friend 

Do you see what I see? 

An omen, 

Dancing in the night 

With the portents of terrifying fright 

With the portents of terrifying fright 

  

Said the wizard to his hobbit friend 

Do you hear what I hear 

Ringing through the sky, hobbit friend 

Do you hear what I hear 
the Nazgul 

Riding through the tress 

Upon horses charging mightily 

Upon horses charging mightily 

  

Said the wizard gray to Sauron's eye 

Do you know what I know? 

Said the evil minions guarding Sauron's Eye  

Do you know what I know? 

A pair of hobbits 

Striving up the hill 

Will destroy that ring, even still 

Will destroy that ring, even still. 

  

The eye of sauron, vanquished everywhere  

Take a pause and listen  

Behold the peace, spreading everywhere  

Take a pause and listen  

The h-----obbits  

made it through the fight  

To vanquish the terrifying fright (2x)  

  

Alternate end:   

The hobbits, they  

Made it all the way  

To bring us goodness today   

To bring us goodness today