A Bell In The Valley

an open collaboration project

as the winter solstice approaches i wrote this melody in the mid 70's as a belated anti-war song, with entirely different lyrics (which i can't find anywhere, i guess i lost them, but they were trite, as i recall). the opening three notes are lifted from the US national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner". sometime around 1990 or so, i did a MIDI version of it that i included on a cassette of traditional Christmas songs that i had sequenced. i wrote these new lyrics a few days ago.

lyrics:

There's A Bell In The Valley There's a bell in the valley It sings to the wind There's a bell in the valley Where do i begin This time I will listen But will I hear the song This night as I'm sleeping A long, long way from home I'm a long, long way from home There's a voice in the valley It speaks to my mind There's a voice in the valley It speaks to mankind But who here is listening And hearing what it says This night as we're dreaming A long, long way from home We're a long, long way from home We're a long, long way from home (c) 2007 Bill Grundmann

this is another version of http://www.macjams.com/song/37345

lyrics:

There's A Bell In The Valley There's a bell in the valley It sings to the wind There's a bell in the valley Where do i begin This time I will listen But will I hear the song This night as I'm sleeping A long, long way from home I'm a long, long way from home There's a voice in the valley It speaks to my mind There's a voice in the valley It speaks to mankind But who here is listening And hearing what it says This night as we're dreaming A long, long way from home We're a long, long way from home We're a long, long way from home (c) 2007 Bill Grundmann

this is another version of http://www.macjams.com/song/37345 featuring the voice of Moviz

lyrics:

There's A Bell In The Valley There's a bell in the valley It sings to the wind There's a bell in the valley Where do i begin This time I will listen But will I hear the song This night as I'm sleeping A long, long way from home I'm a long, long way from home There's a voice in the valley It speaks to my mind There's a voice in the valley It speaks to mankind But who here is listening And hearing what it says This night as we're dreaming A long, long way from home We're a long, long way from home We're a long, long way from home (c) 2007 Bill Grundmann

this is another version of http://www.macjams.com/song/37345