Paul Simon - American Tune (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2013
- ”American Tune” by Paul Simon
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Lyrics:
Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh, but I'm all right, I'm all right
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant
So far away from home
So far away from home
#PaulSimon #AmericanTune #OfficialAudio
I'm just trying to figure out how he wrote perfect lyrics in 1973 for 2020.
In 1973 this country was almost as much of a fractured mess as today. Watergate, the energy crisis, a war we were trying to finally get out of, a world that for many had changed much as the world has changed for us today. But the message in the end is that because we are Americans we would get past it and be stronger. Now it feels like because we are Americans we may never get past it.
Great art is always relevant.
History doesn't repeat itself but it sure does rhyme.
@@classichost Thanks to democrats
@@jacksonk.fozzbodie213, it's neither Republicans nor Democrats, but all of us who're responsible. We talk past one another rather than listening to each other. When we assume we know the other's positions, feelings and experiences, we tend to draw very mistaken conclusions about each other.
I'm willing to listen and perhaps learn where I might be wrong. Will you listen?
how can this song be 45 years old and feel like it was written yesterday?
because paul simon is a genius, and the work of a genius is timeless
PFS often talks about how he felt Bridge Over Troubled Water just came to him and was not "written" by him
but I feel this one is similarly inspired.
Because history is repeating itself. It's 1968 all over again... Instead of Vietnam, we have Covid-19 killing people. We have race riots in the streets and a country bitterly divided over politics. We feel like all of our institutions have failed us. The whole world is going to hell in a hand basket.
That is why it’s a masterpiece it survives the test of time it never grows old
The music is based on a very old hymn, actually. Lovely melody. Used by Bach in St. Mathew’s passion. Can’t beat the music.
@@russbear31 Then MAGAts attacked the capitol and are threatening Civil War while an ex-President held statements in his mentioned and did/sold godknowswhat. It's a mess.
Importantly, this Paul Simon song is an absolute miracle in composition and lyrics. The bridge is a George Gershwin level piece of songwriting. Maybe better?
One of the saddest songs I've ever heard in my life but it's very relevant, especially in these trying times that we live in... Paul Simon is one of the greatest composers/song writers & musicians that my generation has ever produced, pure genius! He speaks for the huddled masses that are heartbroken and displaced. An American Tune sung by a true American Hero in my humble opinion.....
Seth Tuthill Yes, it's all how you.percieve things, I don't know where you're at but one of the people running for governor here wants to raise the sales tax on everything 37%, that's insane! We've got lots of racial tension going on here because of the Travon Martin & Corey Jones killings, both killings were somewhat local to here, the crime rate is rising, we were hit badly by Hurricane Irma last year here in Florida and this is going to be another busy hurricane season. There's numerous other notable things going on like the Parkland school shooting last Valentines day with 17 shot and killed, that's 20 miles away from here, I've got children so needless to say, I'm concerned! The list is endless, in short, YES, I'd certainly consider these trying times! ....Apparently you're not a working adult with children living in this area of Florida & phased by these problems?! SMH
@@billyshakespeare17 That's ok, everybody's entitled to their opinion, its a free country.... I wish that I was where you're at in this point of time, where there isn't the problems that I had mentioned... Must be nice? However, it is nice to see folks who have an optimistic outlook and see a bright future...
@@billyshakespeare17 No argument there! Human beings are the biggest problem & are solely responsible for the problems yet few people take notice or seem to care anymore, very sad indeed! I weep for the future....
David Carter -- The best part is you socialist maniacs insisting the US would be better if pathological liar Hillary Clinton and serial molester husband would be better with her in the WH. LOL!!
@@ConservativeAnthem the socialist want Bernie the Democrats Hillary the socialist weren't huge fans of Hillary
My brothers (RIP) and I grew up one block over from where Paul Simon and his parents lived. I still live there. His mother was my brother Jeff's 1st grade teacher.
That's so cool!! 😊
The tune is actually a hymn I sang in church, "Oh sacred heart now wounded" I love this.
I remember that hymn during Lent.
Combining the texts from both makes a very powerful statement.
It was his main inspiration for Bridge Over Troubled Water too. He's plagiarized himself on American Tune.😅
Yes, Bach used it in his St. Matthew's Passion, although it's originally from a secular song "Mein Gmüth ist mir verwirret" by Hans Leo Hassler (apparently about a man confused after seeing a beautiful woman).
"American Tune" is one the greatest songs anyone ever wrote and recorded. It pulls the hugest themes and issues of the day (fifty years ago, and this morning) into your head, where you acknowledge them, but say, "I've got to get to sleep now; I've got work tomorrow". And you are not wrong to say that.
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I'm not even American, and this song gets me. It's good to know there are thoughtful, self-aware Americans like this, even though we never hear from them in the media.
Thanks to the classical German composers Hassler, Gerhardt & Bach + Paul Simon for the B-section ( And I dreamt....) 😉
Please please please don’t build your opinion of Americans from media. Media is a giant ran by the mega rich and handcraft what the world sees. We’re just humans trying to make a decent lives for ourselves like the rest of the world
@@Bjowolf2 How about: Thanks to the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote this around 1727 as a part of the Mattheus Pasion.
@@erikvanantwerpen4815 No, he borrowed it - it was a well known tune by then 😉
That's why I mentioned all 4 names in my little joke.
Check out Hans Leo Hassler's "Mein G'müth ist mir verwirret" (1500s) & Paul Gerhardt's variation
"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" (1600s).
And that sucks because so many of us feel we get no voice because of a broken government that's breaking our hearts Not bad people you're just hearing the loud ones We will not give in
Not only is this song a timeless classic. The arrangement is a masterclass in sophistication and restraint. If only the pop music of today were as deeply musical as this.
Paul Simon is the master of the secular hymn.
Perfectly said!
This song makes me cry, no matter how many times I hear it. The chord progressions and the lyrics together are too much. I will stand my ground that Paul Simon is the greatest songwriter in the last 100 years. (Songs with lyrics. Don't get me started on others)
He's a genius. This song & "The Boxer" move me.
"American Tune" is lyrics by Paul Simon set to the music of J.S. Bach's "Passion Corral". Nice chord progressions for sure! ua-cam.com/video/R_OBbjAfVrI/v-deo.html
Yeah, man. He's up there in a very short list.
Too bad he didn't give BACH and HASSLER credit for some of the melody.
Genius is right. The music is note for note J.S. Bach from his St. Matthew Passion. Nice lyrics.... but, he ripped it off. No question it's a masterpiece. Just not his. Steal from the best, Paul!
Just watched Ken Burns " The Statue of Liberty" from 1985. This song is prominent in the story. Paul Simon is a very talented man. Thank you.
Cool...
Kenny was my classmate in college. Funny, he was going to be a documentary film maker and even started Florentine Films while still in school - and some of us told him, "sure you are, Kenny... just make sure you get a day job!"
His student film was excellent. The rest is history.
And of course, this song is prominent in the soundtrack of our generation's life.
Peace Love and Understanding, y'all
Aloha
@@nelsonlugo45 I love all of his documentaries! No one can tell a story and give us a history lesson in pictures like he does!
Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I’ve often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh, but I’m all right, I’m all right
I’m just weary to my bones
Still, you don’t expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far away from home, so far away from home
I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
Oh, but it’s all right, it’s all right
For lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
We’re traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what’s gone wrong
And I dreamed I was dying
And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying
Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age’s most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune
Oh, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s all right, it’s all right
You can’t be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow’s going to be another working day
And I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all I’m trying to get some rest
Paul Simon
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This song certainly passes the test of time. Truer now than ever.
It's truer every single day that passes, now. Unfortunately.
& you said that Four years ago.......Hold my beer
One of the best songs ever written.
good lord, yes
It just goes to show that great music is forever - bridging centuries. The tune is based on a melody line from a chorale from Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, itself a reworking of an earlier secular song, "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret," composed by Hans Leo Hassler.
"O Sacred Head Now Wounded" is the hymn.
It certainy helps when Bach wrote most of the music to it 🙂 Not wanting to take anything away from Paul Simon's masterful musicianship.
Absolutey one of the best Paul Simon's songs....Great Lyrics for 1973 !!!
It's also great lyrics for 2023 - perhaps even more so
"... We can't be forever blessed..." But man, I just wish with all my heart that the blessings could have lasted just a little longer.
I always heard it as, "We can be forever blessed."
When I woke up this morning from yet another restless night, this song was playing in my head. Like some quiet message from the spirit world, it played on and on inside me till it finally faded with the demands of the work day. This song may be from many years ago, but it seems so current and applicable to this troubled and dangerous time. It portrays a weariness of the soul which I know many of us experience who are not carried away with the modern media's tides of relentless positivism and pernicious despair.
You know, the real essence of a great song or poem is that even after decades, it can return like a ghost, reach in and speak to your inner self once more. As my first music producer in Nashville once said: "If a song has no emotional impact, it is worthless no matter how well it may be played."
"But it's all right, it's all right, You can't be forever blessed, Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day, And I'm trying to get some rest, That's all I'm trying to get some rest."
Great comment 👍
@@ennediend2865 agreed!
I know, isn't it weird? It has been playing in my head too, all week when I wake in the morning. Its certainly a testament to his talent, but I wonder if its more...
Wonderful comment. I've loved Paul Simon's music for decades now.
And for 2024. Dang! The best!
Bragging Alert: I saw the first public performance of this song, by Simon in 1973 in Chicago. It hadn't even been aired yet on radio. He sang this TWICE that evening--this song being the encore. It was a knockout and obviously important to Simon. Still have my original copy of this album. Thanks for posting.
Pat F.
This was the first vinyl album that I spent my own harder and cash mowing lawns to go out to licorice pizza record store in Long Beach California to buy this precious and artfully made album.
Oh wow. You should brag, I would love to hear more about that show! Msg me if you want. I love this song. *edit* Just saw the other guy is in Long Beach and I am also in Long Beach. I also mowed lawns to buy records (in Texas). ....!!!
@@thefabulousgreenbean2194 The only "disappointment" was that everyone in the audience was hoping that Art Garfunkle would do one of his surprise "drop-bys" and do some sing along with Simon. Didn't happen, but still well worth the price of admission (at the classic Auditorium Theater in Chicago, recommend "Googling" or "DuckDuckGoing" it). I did mislead in my initial message: the new songs were not supposed to have been played by any radio stations until after Simon's performance; apparently, however, one Chicago station did start playing songs from the new album a day earlier, so a good number of audience members had heard songs that Simon thought were being heard for the first time in this show. Every time he started playing something "unheard," many would start clapping, as they had heard it earlier. Eventually Simon caught on and when the unexpected clapping started at the beginning of another new song, he stopped playing and asked the audience if they had heard these on the radio already. The audience replied in the affirmative and someone gave him details. Simon just shrugged and continued playing, now the much wiser. Again, a great show.
Pat, in Chicago
A lot of folks of my generation think we were born in the wrong generation but I realize that that has always been the case.
"Ever since I could remember I’d wished that I’d been lucky enough to be alive at a great time-when something big was going on, like the Crucifixion. And suddenly realized I was! Here I was living through another crucifixion. Here was something to paint!”
- Ben Shahn, artist of The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, in an interview in 1944
Which is ironic since a lot of socialists of my generation kind of wish we were able to live through the time of Sacco and Vanzetti
😮
This song makes me FEEL so deeply. It's a staple of my childhood via my father and I've always loved it, but it means more to me as time passes. The lyrics are more relatable. The melancholy feelings about how a song my Dad made me love as a kid in the 90's/early 2000's is now a reminder of how far apart we live and how much time flies when you've left the nest. The lyrics are so personal yet universal and right now this song just makes me wanna travel 2K miles to hug my Dad, which I can't do until the Covid-19 pandemic settles down. I feel helpless about my stepmom being a nurse and the fact she and my Dad are now 60-somethings with high exposure risks. I hope everything turns out okay cuz it's heartbreaking to feel like your 62 year old Dad is suddenly too vulnerable for his age. Really highlights lost time, regrets and fears about the future. Paul Simon's a blessing to me, even if I barely know hist overall body of work. This songwriting is TOP SHELF and as a 35 year old, NO singer-songwriter of my generation comes close besides the late, great Amy Winehouse.
Love to you, man. Practicing this right now. So powerful. Your story is painful and dear and common. It is no less unique because it’s so presently common, however. I am feeling for you.
Here's hoping and praying to the end of this malady. This song really grew on me as I grew older and I appreciate it even more.
My parents are the same age, and my dad showed me this song as a kid, too. There isn't the distance, but I understand the feeling of time flying. Hopefully you're all doing well!
This needs to be our National Anthem... These days...
for sure, this fits post-covid america better than anything francis scott key ever wrote (and this is coming from a born-&-raised marylander)
If I am to be unironic I would actually like This Land is Your Land to be our national anthem. It's easier to sing and its patriotism is inclusive rather than exclusive.
Heard this on the radio right after I left the Army after serving overseas for three years. It just seemed to fit then and it still does.
This tune was written by Hans Leo Hassler, and was artfully re-worked by Paul Simon. Many will know it as "O Sacred Head Surrounded," most commonly realized (harmonized) by J.S. Bach.
Yes, making it a German tune, since Hassler was born in Nuremberg. Simon of course decorated it a bit, but he also did supply a B-section of his own music ("And I dreamed I was dying"). But by "American Tune" he meant, more or less, the American hope, or experience, or even dream--not the tune of the music. Still, one wonders why he chose a German tune, mostly, to do that. Hassler's Lied sure remains famous.
@@Gonzol7 I think the German connection is irrelevant. This melody was also used by Bach in St. Mathew’s Passion. So many wonderful melodies come out of old German composers, e.g., Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, the list goes on and on.
The section B that Simon added is at the Bach level
@@suzanneparker1799 On the contrary I think that the fact that it's German is thematically relevant on a really deep level. Not just because it's fitting that an 'American Tune' is a German one with English lyrics, because in a sense it makes the melody an 'immigrant' who has been changed by travel to the iconic 'nation of immigrants' - which relates very much to the mention of the Statue of Liberty later in the song, which famously has the whole 'huddled masses' poem on it.
It's about how despite how much America changes people, and how the country itself changes, there's an underlying spirit that can be traced back centuries, again just like the tune that's used.
"O Sacred Head Now Wounded."
Such a beautiful song. Brings tears to my eyes
This song got me through the time after 9/11/01. Even living in Chicago then, not knowing any in the destruction,…emotional grief,…and, playing the cd of this album, random, helped.
I saw Simon and Garfunkel, live in Chicago, Oct’03, and they had this song in their set.
In the hands of genius, timeless themes yield timeless music.
Happy 80th Birthday to one of the greatest musicians and songwriters in existence.
On this day, 9/11, I am playing this masterpiece as I had the Voice of America do on that dreadful day. Poignant and bittersweet. Released on November 17, 1973 reaching #35 on January 12, 1974.
One of the best songs of all time
This song is so relevant right now. Perfectly describes how I feel about the state of America.
Paul Simon is one of the most under rated singer song writers of all time.
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In what universe is Paul Simon "underrated"?
He didn't exactly write this song. It's sort of an arrangement/variation on the hymn "O Sacred Head Sore, Wounded/Surrounded"
@@jackarmstrong8790 correct, paul simon was absolutely standing on the shoulders of giants when arranging this song. still genius imo
Yes. The melody is " O Sacred Head Ill Used", a beautiful hymn with a melody by Hessler , which in turn features in St Matthews's Passion by Bach. The genius of this song lies in the way Simon uses the influences and makes it his own.
No one can beat Paul Simon ❤️
Sure! Johann Sebastian Bach can. The melody is stolen from The Mattheas Passion of Bach.
"Erkenne mich, mein Huter". Approxematly 30 minutes from the start of the Passion.
@@erikvanantwerpen4815 Who gives a damn? Simon would be the first to admit it.
I think Paul says it best, I can't believe how well he nailed the moment of this pandemic. It's a perfect comment on what's going on.
Happy Memorial day everyone, I hope there is some special influence in his words for the future. We are going to move on.
"And I'm just trying to get some rest" ... when I get to take my final rest at last, play this song for me. Crack a cold beer, fire up a joint, and I'll smile with you from wherever I am.
This is one of my all time favorite songs!
It's 2023 and this song is more relevant than..ever..I want some rest too..
The greatest poet in the u.s.
Ok… setting aside the timeless perfection of the lyrics... Setting aside the elegantly simple melody and song structure… Setting aside Paul’s sublime voice…
If you can set all those things aside (which of course you can’t)…
Just take a moment to appreciate the arrangement of this recording. Amazing.
Just acoustic gtr and voice to begin. Then the organ slips in, almost unnoticed. The trap drums come in (just as verse two starts) for punctuation. And then as we enter the bridge… those strings. I promise you, if you listen to this and focus on the strings during the bridge, you will get tears.
Either that or something’s wrong with you.😁
The song American tune in June of 1973 was very popular for those of us who were in the Navy that were going overseas to the Mediterranean, the Carribean, North Atlantic, or Westpac. I went to the Mediterranean that summer.
A great song. More relevant than ever.
jim hoover Yes.
Yes. Finally Obama is gone. Bless you!
@@ConservativeAnthem you must like being laughed at.
@@VS-ok3mz You poor thing. Actually, any fool still worshiping at the feet of the plague named Obama deserves all the sympathy they can get.
@@ConservativeAnthem bigotry is a sin. Never be one.
When life beats you down listen to this song .
This song is tooooo relavent NOW - September 2020 --- U.S.A. -- Grew up with this song back in the day
Timeless song
I'm getting old and this song brings tears to my eyes it's so beautiful. I,m going to look through my hundreds of albums and see if I still have it. Gonna crank it up!
I cant stop crying. It's so amazing. I'm always being accused of being too sensitive and worse. But how can it be so if it allows me to feel this much appreciation for something so beautiful.
This will be played at my funeral...The Kurt Elling rendition is awesome! PS is a brilliant crafter of songs...❤️
I always identified with Paul..he didn't have a powerful voice...but he was powerful in another way..
This song breaks my heart. "We've lived so well so long..." That line portended an end to this amazing, God-blessed human experiment. A woman asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government he and his colleagues designed. He answered:"A constitutional republic, ma'am...if you can keep it." To see it being systematically torn apart and destroyed is too much for me to accept. Let's pray and safeguard the coming election and persuade Lady Liberty to sail back to safe harbor.
My mother was an immigrant, this song always makes me think of her and how she struggled in a foreign country.
2 kind of songs...one knocks at the door and you pretend you are not home...one that knocks you let it in and stay in a spare room for ever😊
I remember hearing this song on 9/11 and choking up. How descriptive!
A timeless work of art that touches on the daily grind and the big picture all at once. May have been the first song to stir my emotions back in my early teens... tirggered by "they come on the ship that sailed the moon, They come in the ages most uncertain hour and sing an America Tune" Not even sure I 'got it' back then but ... too beautiful. Will always love this one.
Paul Simon has given us so much, current song included. Thank you, sir!
He could have given BACH and HASSLER some credit. Reminds me of APOCALYPSE NOW not crediting JOSEPH CONRAD.
in 1973 me and friend Art would play this album over and over again not having a nickel to rub together , Great memories !
A stunning piece of music.
Why does this song make me cry?!
Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh, but I'm alright, I'm alright
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant
So far away from home, so far away from home
And I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
But it's alright, it's alright
For we lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
Road we're traveling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
I can't help it, I wonder what has gone wrong
And I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying
We come on the ship they call The Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hours
And sing an American tune
Oh, and it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
That's all I'm trying to get some rest
Listening in 2023 ... this is timeless!
Without politics
I think this is just a wonderful song.
AnnAmerican tune.
Such an incredible talent as a songwriter and singer. It is a shame that he did not receive the Nobel prize, because his songs and lyrics are so much more powerful than anything Bob Dylan wrote. Not that Dylan is not talented, but he doesn't come close to the power of Paul Simon to move with words and music. What were they thinking? Maybe the Nobel committee never heard anything by Paul Simon?
I agree. Also, Leonard Cohen deserves it.
Time will be ultimate proof, as always. Hope we live to see it happen, but it will. The rare quality of the songwriting ensures that.
Great Song , have been to the Statue of Liberty yesterday ❤
"It's alright. It's alright. You can't be forever blessed. Still, tomorrow is going to be another working day and I'm trying to get some rest. That's all. I'm trying to get some rest."
This song just makes me cry... so much possibility lost...
Will forever remind me of January 6, 2021... I listened to it on repeat all evening.
A day that will live in infamy.
How Jan 6 2020 will be perceived in the future will depend on who wins this deep state war.
Yes, my brother. Jan 6, when decent Americans tried to restore democracy.
@@humblewoodcutter2754 you are delusional and part of the Problem
@@humblewoodcutter2754 Are you delusional or just a garden variety traitor? Decent Anericans? They shit on desks and defaced paintings. They were criminals.
@@humblewoodcutter2754
You must be kidding 🙄.
This "American tune" actually is a century- old GERMAN chorale (church hymn) based on an even older (16th century) Austrian folk song. J.S. Bach used this tune in some of his oratorios and Passions. "O sacred heart now wounded" is the English version of this moving church song.. Of course, Paul Simon wrote entirely new lyrics to this melody.
Jeeeze, Paul... Christ could not have said it better. You are prophet, poet, spirit and soul, all rolled into one beautiful guy.
As a bonus, that touch of the classical incorporated in your music. What does this piece say best? -- That "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Ask any immigrant parent -- and every child in every cage. Paul Simon: Magic Man.
This album is a American Treasure and makes me cry every time I listen to it…every time.
Im an american immigrant so this song hits hard
It's 2020 and the Statue of Liberty is sailing further and further away. Oh my grace, I've got no hiding place...
Damn! Full marks for quoting Save the Life of My Child!!!
Oh, thank you.
Still my favorite song, still brings me to tears.
Alright, Simon knew where the tune came from, I'm sure he would be the first person to say it. Using a tune like this drawn from previous art is a great tradition and, in the birth of this tune, was undoubtedly how it evolved in the first time. He didn't "steal" this from Bach or Bach's sources; it's a tribute from one great artist to another(s).
Thanks for posting, very good audio on this. What a song, by a guy who can see things. We just get deeper and deeper into what this song is about as the years keep coming. A song about reality.
jaw444 Exactly. Well said.
One of greatest songs he ever wrote and performed. It was a genius idea to use a melody from a german baroque composer (Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612), the melody is used in german-spoken middle-Europe by a well-known church hymn ("O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden")
Seriously, how many songs these days have the beauty and power of this?
Please play this at my funeral
Wow. That's amazing. I was thinking the exact same thing as I listened. Maybe we're not alone.
@@michaellynn683 You're not. If I lose my life to COVID-19, or a school shooting, or being killed when I am protesting, I want this played at my memorial service. Because my death will be directly attributable to the ways in which America has gone wrong.
So relevant as t day history never changes if only people would. Brilliant tune and beautifully sung pauls one of the greatest song writer4of all time ❤
I can never get over all the little nuances of his singing of this tune. It's so complex it would be quite a task for anyone but the extremely talented to sing.
I remember when this song first came out-it's just as relevant today as it was then-
This song stopped me in my tracks for about two weeks when I first heard it
Beautiful, spare, elaborate. It's just as much an anthem as anything I've heard for our Sacred United States.
Wonderful. Moving
Profound 🍀👍🏻🙏🏼🎼🎵🎶It was a Pastoral Chorale.( hymn ) written by Hans Leo Hassler. (1564 - 1612) -from the 1500s -adapted & used by many composers, including Bach (JS). It was also notably selected, adapted & partly rewritten , popularized by the modern maestro Paul Simon in 1974-75. Masterful
Thanks for your comment! I heard Louise Farrenc Etudes, Opus 26, Book 2 #21 on radio while driving and heard bits of American Tune in it. It all comes together ! 🙂
All politics aside, what a beautiful song beautifully sung.
Paul Simon never puts politics aside- they drive him - this is his contribution to it
u put them [politics] aside, and pray with devils.
not me...
@@brainsareus duh?? I
I love you Paul Simon..You inspired me since I was 14 years old..I wrote a song about your inpiration..
"But, I'm alright,
I'm alright."
"So far away from home,
so far away from home."
Listening non stop since I heard Malcolm Gladwell ‘s interview audiobook with Paul. So foreseeing today’s unrest in our country nearly fifty years ago. A genius of our lifetime.
Hey Paul Simon, thanks for posting this song...hope you and yours are doing well!
One of my all-time favorites!
Beautiful song!
So well written. Very patriotic. I'm a decedent of John Phillip Sousa.
He would have loved this. "Time is. . .what we perceive in an instant."
That's " d e s c e n d e n t ", old buddy.
had this album when I WAS 14 still love this song
I had this album as a teen. The words are still relevant in my 50s.
My sister gave it to me for my 15th birthday, have loved it ever since.
Bach and Simon
Two great musical legends unite centuries apart!
So beautiful ! So soothing ! Thank you for sharing the wonderful music.
This IS The National Anthem
tears
Yes ,.how these lyrics resonate today. I fee these days like I am looking as an outsider,..are we all part of the same thing ...it doesn't feel like that ...what are the forces that are pushing this ...let's please resist them
God bless this man I hope he recovers from being deaf
...and through a glass and darkly...
Excellent song that I had never heard befoe from Paul!👍
Good song , haven't heard it before, am reading a stepehn king book and it has a snippet of the lyrics in it.
Watched Ken Burn's documentary on the Statue of Liberty and finally found the song.