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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2013
- LYRICS AND DESCRIPTION-
Melanie's full version of Lay Down
with The Edwin Hawkins Singers
(Original Vinyl) Released 1970
Footage of Woodstock 1969
LYRICS TO CANDLES IN THE RAIN
Little sisters of the sun lit
candles in the rain,
fed the world on oats and raisins
candles in the rain
li the fire to the soul
who never knew his friend
meher baba lives again
candles in the rain
to be there is to remember
lay it down again
lay down
lay down
lay it down again
men can live as brothers
candles in the rain....
LYRICS TO LAY DOWN (CANDLES IN THE RAIN)
CHORUS
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the ones who stand and frown
we were so close, there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we had caught the same disease
and we all sang songs of peace
CHORUS
so raise the candles high cause if you
don't we could stay black against the night
oh raise them higher again and if you
do we could stay dry against the rain
CHORUS
we were so close there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we had caught the same disease
and we all sang songs of peace
some came to sing, some came to pray
some came to keep the dark away
so raise the candles high
cause if you don't we could stay
black against the sky
oh oh raise them higher again
and if you do we could stay dry against the rain
CHORUS - เพลง
Melanie wrote this song about her experience at Woodstock...Rest In Peace, Melanie🙏
RIP Melanie. Thank you for being part of the Woodstock experiece.
This song has been giving me goosebumps almost my entire life. Melanie's voice is joyously filled with reckless abandon.....about the most free sound I've ever heard from a human being. Just wonderful.
I’m crying my eyes out right now! It’s perfect. Just perfect.
Reckless a thats it perfect
Abandon
Exactly the same here…
Most soulful gut wrenching beautiful haunting voices ever.
🕯🙏🏻🕯RIP Melanie and condolences to her family🕯🙏🏻🕯🛼🗝
One thing I've always loved about Melanie's voice is that she could start with a delicate, fragile voice and go from there to a very powerful voice with a bit of a growl to it when she wanted to. I love that about her singing.
I am so glad after thousands of years of human existance this is my generation.
Sooo obvious this is one of the best songs of the seventies, with the Edwin Hawkins Singers as a touch of absolute brilliance!
RIP lovely Melanie, I have loved this song my entire life,
Woodstock is and always will be the best music festival of all time, the best singers, composers, instrumentalists, musical groups, etc. and millions of etc.
Peace, Love & Music.
Rafael states: I can only say this is the National Anthem of the Woodstock Nation.
All hail Melanie. I always loved you. I am glad you married for love and lived with your great husband for many wonderful years till he died in 2010. Blessings to your wonderful children. I am a child of the Woodstock Spirit. Peace and love.
reminds me to this day, of laying my mother to rest at ten years of age. 52 years later I still cry like a little school girl every time I hear it. The everlasting power of music...
Melanie is one of the best singers of the most beautiful songs of the '60s and' 70s. She has an exquisite and natural voice, with great sensitivity, she feeling in her soul what she sings.
Some came to sing, some came to pray, some came to keep the dark away. So raise the candles high! Have loved her since I was 12!
What a voice!! Saw Melanie perform about 4 years ago, moved me to tears. Don't miss her if she comes to your town.
Credit to the Edwin Hawkins Singers!!
my first record album i ever bought. i played it over and over again. its just as magical today as it was then
Love that this is from an album and you can hear the crackles, just like a candle in the rain. Let's get a million views on this. Almost there.
Listening to this brought a flood of memories,what a voice .Thanks
I was born in 1968..but my folks had this and I grew up with it and still love this song along with all the other soul moving, meaningful music created during this era. I than and salute all of our Veterans, but especially our Vietnam Vets..I still cringe at how those men were treated coming home. Me and my family thank you for your service from the bottom of our hearts. My mom and I are both nurses and both work with the Vets...we LOVE YOU ALL.
My favorite song of all time. Melanie is the best!!!
RIP Woodstock. What a beautiful time. Age of Aquarius we need you now.
This song is beyond amazing,as Is melanies voice! Truly an extremely important song!!!!!
It's been over 35 years since I heard this song of Melanie. All I could say then, and all I can say now is AWESOME!! It's like being reunited with an old friend: Joyous and exhilarating!
THANKS for posting this gem!!
Melanie was awesome as is this song. Two things I learned from this time period I grew up in. That was pray for peace, against all war. But never, ever be against the soldiers. They didnt create war, they are doing their job, and we should all be ashamed of the way Vietnam vets were treated. God bless them all.
I'm 66 and still living it. If I die tomorrow I will still have had it good compared to those coming up through the "system".!! This a good example WHY!
+Glyn Downing amen !
+Glyn Downing yes
+John Doe I miss those days...
sometimes I wish I could turn back time !
+Glyn Downing - that past seems so strange and beautiful now.
+jackie mcpher Why do you need to turn back time? It's all a state of mind. All this song does is remind me of how lucky I have been and still am. Hence my original comment "If I die tomorrow"!!
Just take the time to sit back, take stock of your life, throw out the bad bits (you can't change them!), then move on, taking the music with you. It will always be with you!!!
Love this song and the cracking and popping of the vinyl album makes it even sweeter.
I get goosebumps listening to this song!
Such a great song and singer.
Timeless... Amazing & Priceless!!!
Thank you for sharing this treasure with us.
Love & Peace Always!
Melanie is an artist too few know of. hHopefully her voice will reach so many more hearts.
Hard to believe she sings Brand New Key, and then really slams it and shows how powerful she can be. Love this song!
I don't know if my tears and the chills that this song brings are for my brothers or myself, but for all that are gone and those that remain, this is a song that we heard on the other side of the world while we were lost in a place where humanity did not exist. Some of us are still in that moment and choose not to return .............
Wow... since I first heard this 40 years ago it always gives me chills up and down my spine, every time I hear it. Just now found out reading the lyrics I get the same chills. Pretty cool.
I remember thinking this song was amazing when I was a little kid going through my parents music. Such a great song.
Beautiful, just beautiful. Her voice and lyrics still give me chills. I forgot about this song until I heard it at the end of "Big Love" last night.
This anthem by Melanie was a gift from God
The Edwin Hawkins singers really kick ass on this song.
40+ years later & this song is still so beautiful!
Love this song, remembering as a child
I was a 20 year old boy trying to be cool in 1970 when this song first appeared. Every-time I heard it I got teary eyed. This had never happened before. Melanie's voice and lyrics do that even now. Thank you for this, my sister.
***** What is that about?
***** What's your beef? I liked the comment.
It’s incredibly powerful music that will last for eternity.
RIP Melanie, there were only 3 solo women singers at Woodstock, and you will always be remembered as one of them.
The first part of this song is lovely ,her voice and guitar and the second part looks like people being free and happy.
Peace and love, my brothers and sisters! Melanie tells it beautifully.
This is from a vinyl album and you can happily hear the crackles in the background, this is a reminder that things were not perfect back then but it was still very special in so many ways and this song is a beautiful reminder of them.
I used to hate the crackles on my albums back then but I love them now, it’s a shame I did not appreciate them at the time.
Loved it then and so appropriate now
Here's to better times and may they not be forgotten. We need them now more than ever. PEACE.
+Donna Volatile I agree Donna !!
+Donna Volatile I am in total agreement. If one is to relive their lives, it has to be through her music. More than ever this world needs peace. Thank you.
Great song. You don't have to be a
60's "flower child" to appreciate it either.
But maybe you do
How I miss Melanie, I'm so fond of her! All my youth together with her music!
ENHORABUENA Nina N, es una Canción Magistral de El Concierto de Woodstock 1969, Gracias por compartirla," LA DAMA DE WOODSTOCK 1969 ", ( MELANIE SAFKA ), es ÚNICA E INIMITABLE........., Desde Europa, mi más Profunda Admiración.
Truly one of the greats of that era!
one of the best from melanie.
I danced to this one year and it was such a powerful song. I loved the style of the song. Beautiful
Love this song!
Wonderful song.! Glad I had a little bite of that great period...! In my mind and in my heart it will always remain..! PEACE...!!!
One of my all time favorite songs. '69 was an awesome year.
I was ignoant to the wars going on at this point in my life, all I knew was that Melanie was so raw and so real and she touched me where no one else did. Saw her twice in concert as a teenager when none of my friends would join me because they thought she was od. But she defined me.
1970 was the year of organized protests against the Vietnam War on campuses across the country, millions of students took part. CSNY wrote "Ohio" about it, but more students were also shot two weeks later at Jackson State in MS.
We bled inside each other's wounds.
Amen...songs like this are timeless for our issues.
I was too young to really appreciate what this song meant although I do recall the horror of listening to the draft being read out over the radio in Australia.
However, when I first heard it I was swept up in a wave of emotion which remains with me to this day. It reduces me to tears whenever I sing along, and a great singalong song it is too. It was probably my first taste of a gospel style which may explain why I also adore Madonna's Like a Prayer.
I was old enough and couldn't get there. And none of the festivals I went to after that were never the same. Not even close. It was a one of a kind event never to be duplicated. And, what music.
we have the ability to love everyone. it costs us nothing to be kind to one another. yet people choose to waste energy hating others. sometimes I just want to shout so loud the whole world could hear me telling everybody to just stop hating.
a great time to live and grow up.
in 1970 we left Quebec City to go on summer holidays in N.J. I was 15 and in charge of the car radio,almost every station i tuned in played a Melanie song. Nice to hear her again.
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Positively the anthem of our generation...still get chills remembering the first time she did this live and I was there...had to look up who Meher Baba was though..This song absolutely Blew me away then .This gift of internet video (never thought i'd say that) helps bring it all back. For those of you too young to have been part of it- this pretty well sums up the sentiment of the hippie movement...Melanie is still giving it up for audiences to date.Thanks Melanie (and kids).
If the youngsters had lyrics like this we could have fired up more opposition to Dubya's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
@@jturtle5318you got that right
What an inspirational song! I remember this from my youth, even at 4 I knew this was a powerful song (but I didn't know why). Now, some 40+ years later I keep coming back to this song to renew my passion and to stir others to stand up against oppression!! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai!!
That voice make my neck hair stand up every time I hear it. What a memories. I was in high scholl end of the Year Party when I first heard it. I love that owdy raspy voice, it just get inside yor soul. Good sh...
I first heard this on a K-Tel record when I was a child Along with Amazing Grace by Judy Collins loved both singers ever since RIG Melanie Rest In The Glory Of God🙏❤️💯
We missed our ride to Woodstock and so continued to spend that time in Philly. My spouse sang the blues with Melanie on the Jersey Shore. Memories...
I grew up listening to Melanie! She was GREAT!!!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS SONG!
This is the extended version with the beginning you didn't hear on the single, it's probably on the album of the same name. A rare classic.
i wasnt born in before 1970 but my dad also went to Vietnam. Growing up I listened to his records and this was one of my favorites..
God that's good ! gives me goose bumps. Thanks
Feb.3: Happy birthday Melanie. Singer. Thanks for the upload. Blessings
+Gerald Johnson Amen Keep UP the fight!
Goosebumps everytime. Since the first time I heard that. Ages ago.
i have had a crush on her sense i heard this song(14)yrs. i love this song.thank you doll.
@dogbig02 your words touch my very soul...I was a little girl watching my Daddy, a WW2 & Korean War Vet, die while the Vietnam War was on the tv news and the National Cemetery we knew he would be buried in was getting ever bigger as the brave young Soldiers who lost their lives were laid to rest there...it make a huge impact on the little girl and it still does for this grown Woman....Much love to you ~A Spirited Woman
I was 18 in love with Melanie and her song
I was 7 and loved this song..had the 45..on my little record player.played a lot..:)
Was'nt old enough to attendend woodstock,but what music came out of there,popular then,as it's now,bring back the simple times,when music ment something.
Had this on 45- the Candles in the rain part on one side and the Lay Down part on the other.
Nice slide show here. a passionate time.
Citiest People. A hauntingly beautiful song from a stunningly beautiful person. A true lesson in singing from the heart. All those "wannabe's" , the shouters and screamers on these so called 'talent' shows should be forced to watch and study!!
Catch her performance on Ed Sullivan singing Ruby Tuesday. Indistinguishable from the album track. A superb lesson. A true masterclass in how it should be done! No sound effects no mixing. 'Nuff said really!
It is a reminder of what we were, what we hoped to be....and a reproach to what we are now.
We used to ride through Old Saybrook CT with is song as loud as it would play. Brings back mold times!
best song ever for Woodstock - I was just an egg in 1969 - wasn't born until 1970 but I love the music
this is for real my aunt . married peter my dads cuz .Great person first met when I was 11 . love ya Aunt Mel oxox peter hawryluk
Awesome job!!! Thanks so much for posting....I really enjoyed this, it took me back! This was a GREAT era to grow up!
Beautiful song and pictures. 5 stars!
This is the version I remember with "Little sisters of the sun..." as I used to have this album. I prefer this to some other versions including extended ones. Thank you for sharing!
just wow....rhanks for quallity sound
On this day in 1970 {July 8th} Melanie performed "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain}" on the ABC-TV program 'The Everly Brothers Show'...
Three days earlier on July 5th, 1970 it peaked at #6 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, it had entered the Top 100 on April 19th, 1970 and spent 17 weeks on the chart...
Between 1970 and 1973 she had nine Top 100 records; two made the Top 10 with one reaching #1,"Brand New Key" for 3 weeks on December 19th, 1971...
Melanie, born Melanie Anne Safka, will celebrate her 68th birthday this coming February 3rd, 2015...
Woodstock was something not to be missed.... Melanie was certainly the epitome of those hippy days and the voice so haunted many souls... and still does. What memories...... and they can be recovered each time I listen to her.... this song particularly...........
i would listen to this song while i was in the army in 1970. is one of my top 10 songs of all time
Thanks for this gentle reminder. The more I watch this, the more I see how brilliant this composition is.
Thanks for the memories. Wow, what a time we had. We were just kids. We just dressed as hippies but I wouldn't do the drug part. My 18 year old husband soon joined the service and I went with him.
love melanie love this song
We were so close,there was no room,we bled inside each others wounds.
We need to get that close again, don't we?
crystal lorenz always remembered that line didn't know where it came from genius
OMG....remember listening to this 45 when I was little!!! LOL
wereld muziek, ik krijg er geen genoeg van heel mooie muziek
Berend
This was our anthem.
We, the children of the sun, raised our voices together and the world heard,
we, the children of the sun, raised our fists and fought injustice,
we lived, loved, and died, ......and time passed.
Today, ....time blurrs our vision,
But if you listen, the echos of the past can be heard again.
The brutality of injustice still exists today....voices of hatred have risen again
This anthem has meaning again.
It was the early 70s. There was...Led Zeppelin...Jimi Hendrix...Yes...ect...one of my favorites was the album that had this beautiful girl on the cover with some candles... See More...she could take me away for awhile with that voice of hers...yes, she could even take me away from my pain when she sang about those "Candles In The Rain"...thank you Melanie Safka from the now grown up (sometimes..haha) 13yr old kid from Dayton Ohio...Love...Darrell
By the way I love this song. Wasn't at Woodstock but I made the Texas International Pop Festival..........Peace out and always God Bles our great country.