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=About Kuumvu=
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{{Badge-Entry|Caste}}Kuumvu is a skald of the caste of the Keepers of Memory
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{{Badge-Entry|Draconic Ancestry}}Mixed
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{{Badge-Entry|Tribe}}Undecided yet
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{{Badge-Entry|Faith}}The Death-Singing Dragon (Vardama)
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{{Badge-Entry|Politics}}Primarily Supportive of the Silver Empress
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=Resources=
 
==Dirges and Funerary==
  
==Dirges and Funerary==
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Collected for fun and reference! As a Vardaman, he would swap out references to be appropriate to local culture. This may change rhythm and speed.
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  +
Most of the samples below are folk and Western-influenced, though I'm doing as I can to expand it. Suggestions welcome.
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===[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzqjD-_OMHk Dimming of the Day]===
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This old house is falling down around my ears
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  +
I'm drowning in a river of my tears
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  +
When all my will is gone you hold me sway
  +
  +
I need you at the dimming of the day
  +
  +
  +
  +
You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide
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  +
You know just where I keep my better side
  +
  +
  +
  +
What days have come to keep us far apart
  +
  +
A broken promise or a broken heart
  +
  +
Now all the bonnie birds have wheeled away
  +
  +
I need you at the dimming of the day
  +
  +
  +
  +
Come the night you're only what I want
  +
  +
Come the night you could be my confident
  +
  +
  +
  +
I see you on the street in company
  +
  +
Why don't you come and ease your mind with me
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I'm living for the night we steal away
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I need you at the dimming of the day
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I need you at the dimming of the day
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===[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDB87o-njFQ The Parting Glass]===
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Oh all the time that e'er I spent,
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  +
I spent it in good company;
  +
  +
And any harm that e'er I've done,
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  +
I trust it was to none but me;
  +
  +
May those I've loved through all the years
  +
  +
Have memories now they'll e'er recall;
  +
  +
So fill me to the parting glass,
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  +
Goodnight, and joy be with you all.
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Oh all the comrades that e'er I had,
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  +
Are sorry for my going away;
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  +
And all the loved ones that e'er I had
  +
  +
Would wish me one more day to stay.
  +
  +
But since it falls unto my lot
  +
  +
That I should leave and you should not,
  +
  +
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
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  +
Goodnight, and joy be with you all.
  +
  +
  +
  +
Of all good times that e'er we shared,
  +
  +
I leave to you fond memory;
  +
  +
And for all the friendship that e'er we had
  +
  +
I ask you to remember me;
  +
  +
And when you sit and stories tell,
  +
  +
I'll be with you and help recall;
  +
  +
So fill to me the parting glass,
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God bless, and joy be with you all.
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  +
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===[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuLXRHZFAio There'll be Peace in the Valley]===
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Well, I'm tired and so weary
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  +
But I must go along
  +
  +
Till the lord will come and call, call me away, oh yeah
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Well the morning's so bright
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  +
And the Lamb is the light
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And the night, night is as black as the sea, oh yes
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(alt lyric: 'and the night, night is as fair as the day, oh yes')
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(There will be peace in the valley for me, some day)
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There will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I pray
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(There'll be no sadness, no sorrow, my Lord,
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no trouble, trouble I see)
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There will be peace in the valley for me
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Well the bear will be gentle
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  +
And the wolf will be tame
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And the lion shall lay down, down by the lamb, oh yes
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  +
And the beasts from the wild
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  +
Shall be led by a child
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And I'll be changed, changed from this creature that I am, oh yes
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(There will be peace in the valley for me, some day)
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There will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I pray
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(There'll be no sadness, no sorrow, oh my Lordy, no trouble, trouble I see)
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There will be peace in the valley for me, (for me)
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===[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6lKaLNZSVk My Legs are Weak]===
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I'm collecting people's tears
  +
  +
They cried because they miss you
  +
  +
They filled the seas and all the lakes
  +
  +
With memories the wind blew
  +
  +
I'd run out of jars
  +
  +
Before a second could pass
  +
  +
Didn't have enough time with you
  +
  +
To turn the hourglass
  +
  +
Pictures in my head, suddenly appear
  +
  +
Why'd you have to go away
  +
  +
It's all not very clear
  +
  +
  +
  +
Goodbye sweet angel
  +
  +
Sail away on teary seas
  +
  +
Tattooed the times we had, on my memory
  +
  +
My legs are weak
  +
  +
  +
  +
When I close my eyes I see you
  +
  +
The dimples in your cheeks
  +
  +
I forgot to thank you for things
  +
  +
Cos i hadn't seen you in weeks
  +
  +
Woke up this morning
  +
  +
And hoped for a dream
  +
  +
But reality sat next to me
  +
  +
And forced me to believe
  +
  +
Knocked down too soon
  +
  +
Like a skittle on the lanes
  +
  +
The man took the wrong stop
  +
  +
From lifes's fast moving train
  +
  +
  +
  +
Goodbye sweet angel
  +
  +
Sail away on teary seas
  +
  +
Tattooed the times we had, on my memory
  +
  +
My legs are weak
  +
  +
  +
  +
Funeral flowers, won't make me believe
  +
  +
They can carry out your casket
  +
  +
And I'll still expected see, you, you
  +
  +
Come round tomorrow
  +
  +
And tell me all your news
  +
  +
I don't ask for much from you
  +
  +
Sleep to my lullaby
  +
  +
Only give me one more chance
  +
  +
To say my last goodbye
  +
  +
  +
  +
Goodbye sweet angel
  +
  +
Sail away on teary seas
  +
  +
Tattooed the times we had, on my memory
  +
  +
My legs are weak
  +
  +
Goodbye sweet angel
  +
  +
Sail away on teary seas
  +
  +
Tattooed the times we had, on my memory
  +
  +
My legs are weak
  +
  +
  +
===[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1rZa8Ur_Q For a Dancer]===
  +
Keep a fire burning in your eye
  +
  +
Pay attention to the open sky
  +
  +
You never know what will be coming down
  +
  +
I don't remember losing track of you
  +
  +
You were always dancing in and out of view
  +
  +
I must have thought you'd always be around
  +
  +
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
  +
  +
Now you're nowhere to be found
  +
  +
  +
  +
I don't know what happens when people die
  +
  +
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
  +
  +
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
  +
  +
That I can't sing
  +
  +
I can't help listening
  +
  +
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
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  +
Crying as they ease you down
  +
  +
'cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
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  +
Dancing our sorrow away
  +
  +
(right on dancing)
  +
  +
No matter what fate chooses to play
  +
  +
(there's nothing you can do about it anyway)
  +
  +
  +
  +
Just do the steps that you've been shown
  +
  +
By everyone you've ever known
  +
  +
Until the dance becomes your very own
  +
  +
No matter how close to yours
  +
  +
Another's steps have grown
  +
  +
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
  +
  +
  +
  +
Keep a fire for the human race
  +
  +
Let your prayers go drifting into space
  +
  +
You never know what will be coming down
  +
  +
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
  +
  +
And just as easily it could all disappear
  +
  +
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
  +
  +
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
  +
  +
(the world keeps turning around and around)
  +
  +
Go on and make a joyful sound
  +
  +
  +
  +
Into a dancer you have grown
  +
  +
From a seed somebody else has thrown
  +
  +
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
  +
  +
And somewhere between the time you arrive
  +
  +
And the time you go
  +
  +
May lie a reason you were alive
  +
  +
But you'll never know
  +
  +
  +
===[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpbHt7Cqjd8 Precious Memories]===
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Precious memories, unseen angels,
  +
  +
Sent from somewhere to my soul;
  +
  +
How they linger, ever near me,
  +
  +
And the sacred past unfold.
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  +
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Chorus:
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Precious memories, how they linger,
  +
  +
How they ever flood my soul;
  +
  +
In the stillness of the midnight,
  +
  +
Precious, sacred scenes unfold.
  +
  +
Precious father, loving mother,
  +
  +
Fly across the lonely years;
  +
  +
And old home scenes of my childhood,
  +
  +
In fond memory appears.
  +
  +
  +
  +
Chorus
  +
  +
In the stillness of the midnight,
  +
  +
Echoes from the past I hear;
  +
  +
Old time singing, gladness bringing,
  +
  +
From that lovely land somewhere.
  +
  +
  +
  +
Chorus
  +
  +
As I travel on life's pathway,
  +
  +
Know not what the years may hold;
  +
  +
As I ponder, hope grows fonder,
   
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Precious memories flood my soul.
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzqjD-_OMHk Dimming of the Day]
  
   
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==Other Dirge and Funerary Materials==
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDB87o-njFQ The Parting Glass]
  
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[http://osibisaba.blogspot.com/2011/04/funeral-dirges-from-ghana-atenteben.html Ghana]
   
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[http://ideophone.org/a-mawu-dirge/ Mawu]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tseXU5wG3xk There'll be Peace in the Valley]
  
   
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[http://sakhuschool.com/images/akan_women_mourning_rituals.pdf Role of Akan Women in Funerary Rites]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6lKaLNZSVk My Legs are Weak]
  

Latest revision as of 02:50, 21 July 2016

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Didgeridoo.jpg


About Kuumvu

Amshere01.jpg

Sith-makar PC Badge
Caste: Kuumvu is a skald of the caste of the Keepers of Memory
Draconic Ancestry: Mixed
Tribe: Undecided yet
Faith: The Death-Singing Dragon (Vardama)
Politics: Primarily Supportive of the Silver Empress


Resources

Dirges and Funerary

Collected for fun and reference! As a Vardaman, he would swap out references to be appropriate to local culture. This may change rhythm and speed.

Most of the samples below are folk and Western-influenced, though I'm doing as I can to expand it. Suggestions welcome.

Dimming of the Day

This old house is falling down around my ears

I'm drowning in a river of my tears

When all my will is gone you hold me sway

I need you at the dimming of the day


You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide

You know just where I keep my better side


What days have come to keep us far apart

A broken promise or a broken heart

Now all the bonnie birds have wheeled away

I need you at the dimming of the day


Come the night you're only what I want

Come the night you could be my confident


I see you on the street in company

Why don't you come and ease your mind with me

I'm living for the night we steal away

I need you at the dimming of the day

I need you at the dimming of the day

The Parting Glass

Oh all the time that e'er I spent,

I spent it in good company;

And any harm that e'er I've done,

I trust it was to none but me;

May those I've loved through all the years

Have memories now they'll e'er recall;

So fill me to the parting glass,

Goodnight, and joy be with you all.


Oh all the comrades that e'er I had,

Are sorry for my going away;

And all the loved ones that e'er I had

Would wish me one more day to stay.

But since it falls unto my lot

That I should leave and you should not,

I'll gently rise and I'll softly call

Goodnight, and joy be with you all.


Of all good times that e'er we shared,

I leave to you fond memory;

And for all the friendship that e'er we had

I ask you to remember me;

And when you sit and stories tell,

I'll be with you and help recall;

So fill to me the parting glass,

God bless, and joy be with you all.


There'll be Peace in the Valley

Well, I'm tired and so weary

But I must go along

Till the lord will come and call, call me away, oh yeah

Well the morning's so bright

And the Lamb is the light

And the night, night is as black as the sea, oh yes

(alt lyric: 'and the night, night is as fair as the day, oh yes')


(There will be peace in the valley for me, some day)

There will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I pray

(There'll be no sadness, no sorrow, my Lord,

no trouble, trouble I see)

There will be peace in the valley for me


Well the bear will be gentle

And the wolf will be tame

And the lion shall lay down, down by the lamb, oh yes

And the beasts from the wild

Shall be led by a child

And I'll be changed, changed from this creature that I am, oh yes


(There will be peace in the valley for me, some day)

There will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I pray

(There'll be no sadness, no sorrow, oh my Lordy, no trouble, trouble I see)

There will be peace in the valley for me, (for me)

My Legs are Weak

I'm collecting people's tears

They cried because they miss you

They filled the seas and all the lakes

With memories the wind blew

I'd run out of jars

Before a second could pass

Didn't have enough time with you

To turn the hourglass

Pictures in my head, suddenly appear

Why'd you have to go away

It's all not very clear


Goodbye sweet angel

Sail away on teary seas

Tattooed the times we had, on my memory

My legs are weak


When I close my eyes I see you

The dimples in your cheeks

I forgot to thank you for things

Cos i hadn't seen you in weeks

Woke up this morning

And hoped for a dream

But reality sat next to me

And forced me to believe

Knocked down too soon

Like a skittle on the lanes

The man took the wrong stop

From lifes's fast moving train


Goodbye sweet angel

Sail away on teary seas

Tattooed the times we had, on my memory

My legs are weak


Funeral flowers, won't make me believe

They can carry out your casket

And I'll still expected see, you, you

Come round tomorrow

And tell me all your news

I don't ask for much from you

Sleep to my lullaby

Only give me one more chance

To say my last goodbye


Goodbye sweet angel

Sail away on teary seas

Tattooed the times we had, on my memory

My legs are weak

Goodbye sweet angel

Sail away on teary seas

Tattooed the times we had, on my memory

My legs are weak


For a Dancer

Keep a fire burning in your eye

Pay attention to the open sky

You never know what will be coming down

I don't remember losing track of you

You were always dancing in and out of view

I must have thought you'd always be around

Always keeping things real by playing the clown

Now you're nowhere to be found


I don't know what happens when people die

Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try

It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear

That I can't sing

I can't help listening

And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round

Crying as they ease you down

'cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing

Dancing our sorrow away

(right on dancing)

No matter what fate chooses to play

(there's nothing you can do about it anyway)


Just do the steps that you've been shown

By everyone you've ever known

Until the dance becomes your very own

No matter how close to yours

Another's steps have grown

In the end there is one dance you'll do alone


Keep a fire for the human race

Let your prayers go drifting into space

You never know what will be coming down

Perhaps a better world is drawing near

And just as easily it could all disappear

Along with whatever meaning you might have found

Don't let the uncertainty turn you around

(the world keeps turning around and around)

Go on and make a joyful sound


Into a dancer you have grown

From a seed somebody else has thrown

Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own

And somewhere between the time you arrive

And the time you go

May lie a reason you were alive

But you'll never know


Precious Memories

Precious memories, unseen angels,

Sent from somewhere to my soul;

How they linger, ever near me,

And the sacred past unfold.


Chorus:

Precious memories, how they linger,

How they ever flood my soul;

In the stillness of the midnight,

Precious, sacred scenes unfold.

Precious father, loving mother,

Fly across the lonely years;

And old home scenes of my childhood,

In fond memory appears.


Chorus

In the stillness of the midnight,

Echoes from the past I hear;

Old time singing, gladness bringing,

From that lovely land somewhere.


Chorus

As I travel on life's pathway,

Know not what the years may hold;

As I ponder, hope grows fonder,

Precious memories flood my soul.

Other Dirge and Funerary Materials

Ghana

Mawu

Role of Akan Women in Funerary Rites

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