The excellent Six-string dulcimer made by Stefan Sobell in 1976 sporting both self-wound dual electric pickups and an acoustic mic, forms the nucleus of all Nino productions. Stefan began his career on a dulcimer but has since moved to fine lutes citterns and guitars. Here is a vdieo interview and here you can see his wife holding an original dulcimer that set him on his career, which had only just begun when I travelled to Newcastle in 1976 and bought mine from him in a pub after commissioning it from the antipodes.
Relative to C: 0.0.2 = 2.3.4 = 4.5.8 = C, 0.1.2 = 1.3.5 = 5.5.8 = Am, 1.2.4 = 4.4.7 = G,
4.4.6 = Gm, 1.1.3 = 3.4.5 = Dm, 5.7.9 = D, 2.2.4 = Em, 0.1.3 = 3.3.5 = F, 7.7.9 = Bm, etc.
Reverse ordering:
Am - 8.5.5 - 0.1.0 - 5.3.2 Dm - 3.1.1 - 5.4.3 - 11.9.9 F - 5.3.3 - 3.1.0 - 13.11.11
C - 2.0.0 - 4.3.2 - 8.5.4 - 10.8.8 Em - 4.2.2 - 7.5.4 - 12.10.10 G - 7.4.4 - 4.2.1
D - 9.7.4 Gm - 6.4.4 - 9.8.6 Bb - 9.6.6 - 6.4.3
Revelation (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, percussion.
Singing the apocalypse into being to cherish and replenish the Earth throughout the generations of the diversity of life, after a close brush with death.
"But I, I am lord of two ways.
I am master of up and down.
I am as a man who is a new man,
with new limbs and life,
and the light of the Morning Star in his eyes.
Lo! I am I! The lord of both ways.
Thou wert lord of the one way.
Now it leads thee to the sleep. Farewell!
So Jesus went on towards the sleep.
And Mary the Mother of Sorrows lay down
on the bed of the white moon,
weary beyond any more tears.
"And I, I am on the threshold.
I am stepping across the border.
I am Quetzalcoatl lord of both ways,
star between day and the dark."
(DH Lawrence -The Plumed Serpent)
Jesus said: "If those who lead you say to you,
'See, the kingdom is in the sky,'
then the birds of the sky will precede you.
If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,'
then the fish will precede you.
Rather, the kingdom is inside of you,
and it is outside of you." (Gospel of Thomas 3)
Revelation
Czech lyrics
I am resurrected! I have ascended!
I am transfigured, I am redeemed sufficient unto the day thereof,
to bring some consolation to a very troubled world.
Jesus, you are tired - please just come down from that cross.
It's time for an end to all the blood, to the death, the guilt and remorse.
I am a phoenix from the ashes. A new man of the Morning Star,
A feathery serpent of two ways now, the Lord of both dark and light.
I am resurrected! I have ascended!
Life has given me another day, living here on a borrowed fate,
to do the things that were left undone, before it's all just too late,
Freed from the past, hurtling into an uncertain future,
on a mission of salvation, to give back what we owe.
For all the glory of this life, for all its pain and agony,
let's make this world a better place, where we can all find sanctuary.
I am resurrected! I have ascended!
I was clutched into the jaws of death, but the old grim reaper spat me out,
so I have the chance to run another round, and discover what its all about.
I am here to love the world all over, and help turn crisis into survival,
for all the living creatures who scuttle upon this Earth,
for all the finny fishes, for the forests and their dappled trees,
for the birds that fly up in the sky, and human beings like you and me.
I am resurrected! I have ascended!
We are here to make the world anew in an all-too fleeting existence,
suspended between birth and annihilation, suffering and strife.
Not just in the halls of the rich and famous, and the corridors of power,
but those clinging on to life in the ghettos, and the refugees of war.
The only way we can find redemption, is to give our very heart and soul,
to the flowering of the living planet, our golden shining love-bird goal.
This is the hour of Resurrection! It is the time of Ascension!
It is our Transfiguration! It is our very own true Redemption! It is our Salvation!
This is our consummating Unveiling! It is our Revelation!
8.5.5 5.3.3 6.4.4 10.8.8
10.8.8 3.1.1 6.4.4 8.5.5
8.5.5 6.4.4 5.3.3 3.1.1
5.3.3 6.4.4 3.1.1 8.5.5
8.5.5 6.4.4 3.1.1 5.3.3
3.1.1 5.3.3 6.4.4 8.5.5
3.1.1 5.3.3 8.5.5 6.4.4
5.3.3 8.5.5 6.4.4 3.1.1
10.8.8 6.4.4 3.1.1 5.3.3
5.3.3 8.5.5 6.4.4 3.1.1
3.1.1 5.3.3 6.4.4 8.5.5
Black Rose (mp3 download) YouTube: Black Rose Nuclear Apocalypse
Chris Jan 2006 (lyrics, dulcimer, keyboard, percussion, vocals), Christine (vocals), Doreen Bell-Zotan (lyric sources)
The Full Story of the Lyrics
Black Rose
The Gaia Anointing Scopus, Mount of Olives, Millennium Eve. YouTubeVideo Audio(mp3)
Chris King, Jane King (reading), Rohan King (piano Gaia suite 1st movement)
Hymn to the Epoch YouTubeVideo Audio(mp3)
Chris King Dulcimer, keyboard, blues harp, vocals (Aotearoa).
Sarah Tov, Jane King vocals, Tania Susskind violin (Jerusalem)
This is a song pronouncing the Requital of the patriarchal epoch sung on the Mount of Olives on Millennium Eve. It was inspired by a Greenpeace campaign against nuclear weapons and the twelve 'apostles' the pillars of the Kohititanga Marama 'first appearance of the moon' movement, representing the twelve tribes, which have become 'world asherim', having lain weathering on a beach for a century awaiting the prophet who would come when people would play the harps in the new moon'.
Marriage in Paradise? (mp3 download) - You Tube Video
Chris King, Dulcimer, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
Am 8.5.5 2.1.0
8.5.5 10.8.8 8.5.5 2.1.0
M 5.4.3 3.1.1 8.5.5 2.1.0
(9/8).5.5 2.1.0
8.5.5 10.8.8 2.1.0
F 4.2.1 5.3.3 8.5.5 2.1.0
Sleepwalker's Awakening (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, percussion.
Mind
I've been sitting here thinking that the world is turning,
round and round, spinning threads, shifting sands, drifting in the wind
day after day goes by, nights come rolling round in slumber
dreaming of the inevitable time of awakening,
forgetting in our illusions, the times that are hurtling by.
Caught in the miasma, it's hard to take a breath of air
to find the inspiration to step off the merry go round.
But what is the hidden lesson that the wheel of birth and death can teach us?
What is the meaning and purpose of this all-too-giddy plight,
running helter-skelter from one carousel to another,
pretending that the bright lights are the key to immortal life,
loving like there's no tomorrow, and never an end in sight?
Can we catch our breath and be, even for a moment,
to see if we can see the future forming before our eyes?
We have been treading an endless road together,
travelers on a journey from end to end of time
Is there some kind of secret door we can exit the hall of mirrors
and find our way in the wilderness beyond the trackless wastes of time,
hearing the silences between the sounds, perceiving beyond appearances,
falling into eternity, existing in the very instant,
full complete and abundant, radiating the light of life.
Body
We know we are creatures of flesh and blood, of biological origins
evolving sexual beings, of sensual experience,
living in a living world, with every kind of organism,
species coexisting in the tangled web of generation,
creatures of the grasslands, the forests, the wetlands and seas.
This is a lament, for so many facing extinction,
in a crime against humanity, that is a genocide of life.
Can we find the resolve, to safeguard the living planet
as guardians of the diversity, upon which we all depend?
Can we look beyond our self-absorbing visions
of domination, of conquest, of ascendency and war?
Can we embrace the spirit of love that brings together one and all?
This is a song of hope, in the face of catastrophe
a tricky little lullaby to calm the waters of strife.
We each come from the perennial web, unbroken since the dawn of time,
in which every generation has given life to the next.
Can we find the courage, to reflower reality,
to open up the floodgates, to the epoch of paradise?
In a time of so much promise, of cosmological discovery,
the very last thing our generations need is a planetary mass demise.
So let's just do the one very good thing for the sanctity of life.
8.5.5 7.4.4 5.3.3 3.1.1
8.5.5 10.8.8 7.4.4 5.3.3
10.8.8 7.4.4 3.1.1 5.3.3
5.3.3 8.5.5 3.1.1 5.3.3
5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4 3.1.1
3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
3.1.1 5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
8.5.5 4.2.2 7.4.4 3.1.1
8.5.5 10.8.8. 3.1.1 5.3.3
3.1.1 5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4
7.4.4 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
7.4.4 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
5.3.3 8.5.5 3.1.1 5.3.3
5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4 3.1.1
2.0.0 8.5.5 3.1.1 5.3.3
2.0.0 8.5.5 3.1.1 7.4.4
3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
7.4.4 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
7.4.4 3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0
3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
7.4.4 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
8.5.5 5.3.3 10.8.8 7.4.4
11.9.9 9.6.6 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 10.8.8 9.6.6 6.4.4
11.9.9 13.11.11 10.8.8 9.6.6
13.11.11 10.8.8 6.4.4 9.6.6
9.6.6 11.9.9 6.4.4 9.6.6
9.6.6 11.9.9 10.8.8 6.4.4
6.4.4 9.6.6 5.3.3 10.8.8
6.4.4 9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
11.9.9 8.5.5 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 13.11.1 6.4.4 9.6.6
6.4.4 9.6.6 11.9.9 10.8.8
10.8.8 9.6.6 5.3.3 10.8.8
10.8.8 9.6.6 5.3.3 10.8.8
9.6.6 11.9.9 6.4.4 9.6.6
9.6.6 11.9.9 10.8.8 6.4.4
5.3.3 3.1.1 6.4.4 9.6.6
5.3.3 3.1.1 6.4.4 2.0.0
6.4.4 9.6.6 5.3.3 10.8.8
10.8.8 9.6.6 5.3.3 2.0.0
2.0.0 6.4.4 9.6.6 5.3.3
6.4.4 9.6.6 5.3.3 10.8.8
10.8.8 9.6.6 5.3.3 10.8.8
Verdant Unveiling (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Dan Tranh (Vietnam), Dan Bau (Vietnam), percussion.
You know that we have always been wandering
down to the moisture of the shore line
We seem to have walked forever on thin ice together
as if we're running out of time.
You know that I have always been loving you
since the very first moment I met you.
You know you're the apple blossom of my orchard
the land of milk and honey of my heart.
You know that I will always be hungering
for the enchantment of your longing,
lost in the music of your incandescence,
exiled in the rapture of our love.
We both know that the world has been turning
that wild storms are coming, that forests are burning,
that we might be heading towards a terrible shake out
and no one knows the writing on the wall.
We ran hand in hand through the midst of the garden,
lay under the trees of life.
Ate all the sweet fruit in a state of abandon,
without any trouble or strife.
Made passionate love in the glades in the sunshine,
and swam in the tall waterfalls.
We never once saw any signs of destruction
and no impenetrable walls.
But God came along all jealous and lonely
and cast us all out in the mire.
Drove a great flaming sword right into the gateway
and set half the world on fire.
We know that we have always been dreaming
the great unveiling is to come,
no longer seeing through a glass darkly,
knowing cheek to cheek we are one,
traveling companions in grateful compassion
mutual empathy, personal freedom
the right to say "No I will not believe you!
I'll make my mind up for myself".
We know that the dark word of doom is "apocalypse".
They say we are heading right for the precipice
that we will all have to face Armageddon
to be cleansed of our sins with pure fire,
but I say to you, we don't need conflagration
it was always the journey, not the destination,
the time has now come for the greening of Tierra
reflowering the tree of all life.
13-12-11-12.9.9 12-11-10-11.8.8 12-11-10.6.6 11-10-9.5.5
10-9-10.4.4 10-9-10.6.6 10-9-10.5.5 9-8-7.4.4
8-7-6-7.3.3 8-7-6-7.5.5 8-7-6-7.4.4 7-5-4-5.3.3
7-5-4.2.2 7-5-4.2.2 5-4-3-4.1.1 4-3-2.0.0
10-9-8-9.5.5 9-8-7.4.4 8-7-5-7.3.3 7-5-4.2.2
11-10-9-10.6.6 10-9-8.5.5 9-8-7-8.4.4 8-7-5.3.3
12-11-10-11.8.8 11-10-9.6.6 10-9-8-9.5.5 9-8-7.4.4
Last Temptation (mp3 download)
Chris Feb 2009 (lyrics, dulcimer, percussion, keyboard, bass)
Last Temptation
2.1.0 5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
3.1.1-4.2.2-5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
Judas, before you kiss me,
let me pass this sop to you,
for we're in this thing together
and there can be no falling out.
8.5.5 7.4.4 5.3.3 3.1.1
5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4 3.1.1
The bread and wine on this table
will be a sacrament to our communion.
Our flesh and blood of reunion,
as brothers in the bundle of life.
11.9.9 9.6.6 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
We've been sailing towards this moment
ever since we stepped off the shoreline,
You've been my living inspiration,
my rebel without any cause.
11.9.9 5.3.3 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 9.6.6 10.8.8 5.4.3
Do you think this gig we are playing out
will come off just as anticipated?
Or are there some unknown factors
that could tear us all apart?
6.4.4-8.5.5-9.6.6 5.3.3 2.0.0
6.4.4-8.5.5-9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
You are my own twin brother,
the gateway to my Kingdom,
the dark side of my innocence,
the very light of my life.
11.9.9-12.10.10-13.11.11 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9-12.10.10-13.11.11 10.8.8 11.9.9
I always want to protect you
and do the very best for you.
Not just thirty pieces of silver,
and drowned in a field of blood.
6.4.4-8.5.5-9.6.6 5.3.3 6.4.4
6.4.4 3.1.1 9.6.6 10.8.8
Mary, my intimate companion,
the soul mate of my ecstasy,
you have covered my head with your spikenard
in playing that good part.
14.12.12 9.6.6 13.11.11 10.8.8
14.12.12 11.9.9 13.11.11 12.11.10
Everywhere my name is mentioned
they will also speak of you.
The woman whose very liberty
gave the race of men their shame.
14.12.12 9.6.6 13.11.11 10.8.8
14.12.12 9.6.6 5.3.3 2.0.0
The splendour of your loving
has been my own salvation.
The mystery of our mingling
will echo again and again
3.1.1-4.2.2-5.3.3 2.0.0 3.1.1
3.1.1-4.2.2-5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
Do you think we can turn the tables
on all this scene of violence and destruction?
If we turn the other cheek,
will we be cast down from the heights?
5.3.3-4.2.2-3.1.1 2.0.0 3.1.1
5.3.3 8.5.5 10.8.8 11.9.9
If things don't turn out as expected,
and I cry out that I have been forsaken,
the man from Arimathea
has a way through for us all.
8.5.5-9.6.6-10.8.8 7.4.4 3.1.1
8.5.5 4.2.2 10.8.8 3.1.1
Bring the aloes and spices
and I'll be there with you in the Garden,
but please don't forget little Martha,
the dearest one of us all.
2.0.0 8.5.5 7.4.4 3.1.1
8.5.5-9.6.6-10.8.8 13.11.11 15.12.12
My mistress in the kitchen.
The very soul of domesticity.
The fabric of our coexistence.
The foundation of us all.
11.9.9-12.10.10-13.11.11 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9-12.10.10-13.11.11 15.12.12 16.13.13
She who is Wisdom
crieth out from everlasting.
Possessed as the beloved
before His works of old.
The Resurrection of Magdalen (mp3 download)
Jane King, Chris king (reading) Rohan King (Gaia Suite 4th movement)
Dialogue of the Saviour (mp3 download)
Chris & Christine vocals, Chris Composition, dulcimer, lyrics, keyboard, Chinese violin, bells. Eyal Loz (Dumbek, didgeridoo). The lyrics come from the gnostic gospel Thunder-Perfect Mind, as the paradoxical feminine and the Gospel of Thomas and Yeshua's apocalyptic sayings and Dionysian miraculous reputation in the masculine part.
Played to dulcimer slide tuning GG DD A#A#.
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Song of the Biosphere (Originally produced a month before 9-11) YouTubeVideo Audio(mp3)
Chris King, Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
Original link July 2001
5.5.9-5.5.8 4.4.8-4.4.7 3.3.7-3.3.5 2.2.5-2.2.4 1.1.4-1.1.3
'Elohim (Gypsy Spirits mp3 download)
Chris King: Song & lyrics, dulcimer, keyboards, ova.
Heath King: Bass, rhythm and lead guitars, djembes.
3.3.5 5.5.8 (a7 5)
0.1.2 1.1.3 (c2 3 2) 0.1.2 (a0 1 1 0 1 0 1) 5.5.8
5.5.8 2.2.4
0.1.2 1.1.3 (c2 3 2) 0.1.2 (a0 1 1 0 1 0 1) 5.5.8
The Woman at the Well (mp3 download)
Chris King Dulcimer, keyboard, flute, lyrics, vocals
1.2.4 5.7.9 3.4.5 2.3.4
1.2.4 2.3.4 1.2.4 5.7.9
5.7.9 2.2.4
To Shakti (mp3 download)
Chris King: dulcimer.
Set Love Free The portal song - for Jane (mp3 download)
Chris King: Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
Rohan King: Piano and bridge composition. Heath King: Drums.
2.3.4 4.4.6
3.4.5 4.4.6 3.3.5-0.1.3 0.1.3-0.0.2-0.0.0
7.8.9 5.6.8
5.5.8 3.4.5 2.3.4 0.0.2-1.2.4
The Song of Tane (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals), Eyal Loz (didgeridoo, tablas)
Kitten's Cradle (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboard, percussion, vocals)
Charmian Kaey (violin), Sophia Acheson (viola)
Kitten's Cradle
Have we all been running around in circles?
Thinking time is linear, caught in the kitten's cradle,
when all our pasts, and all of our futures
are woven together in the entanglement.
I thought I saw you dancing, spiraling all around me,
but now I have realized it was just some smoke on the wind.
We shared the same illusion, we were on the same wavelength,
but with uncertain momentum, and the energy to collide.
I will always remember. I will always be thinking of you
in the overlapping waters flowing through the tides of history,
among the tangled threads, in the webs of our communion,
beyond the furthest reaches of the trackless wilderness,
in the halls of the mirrors of our recollections
I will always be seeking the paths to reunite.
Although we've been thrown apart in the recoil of interaction
skittering on a tangential, parabolic arc.
I know that we will come sweeping back together
like comets with shining tails blazing across the sky.
I know that we shall always be entwined with one another
in the cosmic wave function enclosing the universe.
So this is the sacred braid of our enchantment.
Schrodinger's cat paradox of the tanged tale of life.
Even in our seasons of long-forsaken loneliness
love echoes on together from end to end of time.
reverberating in superposition, hidden in uncertainty,
entwined in our entanglement, enveloped in our correlation,
neither dead nor alive, are we bound just to be free?
4.2.2 5.3.2 9.7.5 4.2.2
4.2.2 7.4.4 9.7.5 8.5.5
4.2.2 5.3.2 9.7.5 4.2.2
7.4.4 9.7.5 5.3.2 4.2.2
10.8.8 12.10.10 9.7.5 8.5.5
8.5.5 10.8.8 9.7.5 4.2.2
6.4.4 3.1.1 8.5.5 4.2.2
9.7.7 5.3.3 10.8.8 7.4.4
8.5.5 9.6.5 7.4.4 8.5.5
8.5.5 10.8.8 7.4.4 3.1.1
8.5.5 9.6.5 7.4.4 8.5.5
10.8.8 7.4.4 9.6.5 8.5.5
5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4 11.9.9
11.9.9 13.11.11 12.10.9 8.5.5
10.8.8 7.4.4 11.9.9 8.6.6
12.10.10 9.6.6 13.11.11 10.8.8
11.9.9 9.8.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
11.9.9 13.11.11 10.8.8 8.5.5
11.9.9 9.8.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
13.11.11 10.8.8 9.8.6 11.9.9
9.6.6 11.9.9 10.8.8 6.4.4
6.4.4 9.6.6 8.5.4 3.1.1
3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
7.4.4 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
7.4.4 3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0
3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
7.4.4 5.3.3 2.0.0 7.4.4
Love (mp3 download)
Chris King: Dulcimer, Keyboard, Percussion, Chinese Oboe, Blues Harp, Lyrics, Vocals
LOVE
Don't tell me this is love.
Don't say that this is ecstasy.
The burning fire of this longing
has been smouldering all my days.
I remember when I first saw you.
A case of fatal attraction.
The shadow of a star-crossed destiny
beyond all fortune and fate.
We have always been standing together
ever since we stepped on the shoreline,
though oceans have separated us
through our tortuous journeys of life.
You have always been my companion,
my fountain of liberation.
You are my living nemesis,
as your day is to my night.
Your beauty overcomes me
in the throes of your intoxication.
Inscrutable infatuation,
laying it all on the line.
You know I've always been courting you
since the very first moment I met you.
The poetry of your emotion,
the glowing warmth of your grace.
The enigma of your affection
has left me devastated.
I've fallen into your tender trap
and I'm lost without a trace.
If you want to put a good spin on this,
you can call it sheer enchantment,
loving you, endlessly,
beyond all time and space.
If you want to dwell on the darker side,
it's a case of complete annihilation -
a total eclipse after midnight,
in the rapture of our embrace.
The splendour of your wisdom
overflowing all around you
the bewitching curve of your bosom,
the softness of your face,
as you gazed upon me,
looking at me, smiling and laughing,
your arms thrown right around me,
your hair all out of place.
I have been, and will always
be, standing here alongside you.
As long as my heart is beating,
I'm longing just for you!
So please don't think that I have ever
betrayed you in the deceits of love.
What goes around comes around
as the giddy wheel's in spin.
They tell me this is love.
This intimacy, this empathy.
Compassionate coincidence,
as Yin Tao is to Yang.
They told me that love doesn't last,
as the red leaves fall in Autumn.
That all conditions are transient.
That life's just an illusion.
But now I know that some things last
much longer than they told us then -
though tides may come and fortunes go,
love will remain.
We set out on a journey
never knowing the destination,
but now I know the final cause
is the vital seed of love.
8.5.5 10.8.8 7.4.4 3.1.1
8.5.5 5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4 3.1.1
8.5.5 10.8.8 7.4.4 8.5.5
11.9.9 13.11.11 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
9.6.6 11.9.9 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
14.12.12 9.6.6 13.11.11 10.8.8
14.12.12 11.9.9 13.11.11 10.8.8
14.12.12 9.6.6 13.11.11 10.8.8
14.12.12 9.6.6 5.3.3 2.0.0
11.9.9 6.4.4 10.8.8 5.3.3
9.6.6 4.2.2 8.5.5 3.1.1
14.12.12 10.8.8 13.11.11 9.6.6
12.10.10 8.5.5 11.9.9 6.4.4
13.11.11 9.6.6 12.10.10 8.5.5
11.9.9 6.4.4 10.8.8 5.3.3
6.4.4 9.6.6 5.3.3 2.0.0
6.4.4 9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
11.9.9 10.8.8 9.6.6 6.4.4
9.6.6 11.9.9 10.8.8 11.9.9
3.1.1 5.3.3 2.0.0 6.4.4
3.1.1 5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
8.5.5 7.4.4 5.3.3 3.1.1
5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4 3.1.1
Overflowing Love (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, lyrics), Christine Fielder & Chris King (vocals) Arlene Rees (lyric sources)
3.3.5 (c5 6-5) 5.5.8 (c10-9-8) 4.4.8 (c7 8-7 7 7-8-7) 4.4.6 (c6 8-6) 3.3.5 (c5 5-6 5)
9.9.11 (c11 11 12-11) 8.8.11 (c11-10 10 10-11-10) 2.2.4 (c5-4 4) 1.1.4 (c4-3 3 3-4-3)
6.6.9 (c11-10-9) 5.5.10 (c10-9-8) 3.3.5 (c8-6-5) 2.2.5 (c5 4)
1.1.3 (c3-5-3) 0.1.3-0.0.2 0.0.2-0.1.3-0.0.2-0.0.0
1.0.1 4.0.4 1.1.1 3.3.3 4.4.4 (harmonic)
Kohiti Rose (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals)
Prisoners' Dilemma (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals) Lyric sources: Jane King, Arlene Rees.
Uncertainty (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals)
The Shadows of your Mind (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Dan Tranh (Vietnam), Dan Bau (Vietnam), percussion.
Pandora: The Song of the River (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Dan Tranh, Dan Bau, Percussion.
lo.med.high
0.0.2 2.3.4
1.1.2 2.4.5
1.0.0 8.8.9
1.1.0 8.9.9
0.1.(2-3-1-2) 5.(5-8-4-5).8
1.1.1 5.4.5
1.0.5 4.4.55.5.8 5.4.5 5.8.9
4.4.5 2.3.5 5.5.5
5.4.5 5.8.8 2.3.5
5.5.5 4.4.5 5.8.85.5.(5-4-8-4) 4.4.(5-4-9-4) 1.1.(5-4-0-4) 0.0.(5-4-9-4)
Shakti Unleashed (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Percussion.
Shakti Unleashed
5.3.3 10.8.8 9.6.6
13.11.11 10.8.8 8.5.5
11.9.9 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 10.8.8 5.3.3 (V1) or 9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9 (V2)
6.4.4 9.6.6 8.6.5-5.3.3 8.6.5-9.6.6-8.6.5-5.3.3
3.1.1 5.3.3 4.3.2-2.0.0 4.3.2-5.3.3-4.3.2-2.0.0 (C1&2)
Verse 1
Shakti, Oh Shakti, did you really take us flying?
When you came out in the moonlight, where all the owls were crying?
On that wild and windswept hill top, where tangled trees were swaying
the crickets softly chirping, the grassy breezes playing.
Chorus 1
I'm forever hearing echoes of the sound of your laughter
I shall always be loving you for the silence of your wonder
I drink to the deepest sensation of our knowing
I thirst for the perennial springtime of our growing
Verse 1
You threw off all your garments and stood there in your nakedness.
Your nubile breasts were swaying, your tousled hair wafting fragrances
Resplendent in your rapture, enchanting in your innocence
Radiant in your splendour, inscrutable in your sentience.
Chorus 2
When I look into the water, I see your face there smiling
I shall never stop loving you for the luminance of your being
I long to be consumed by the intimacy of our embracing.
I am yearning for the friendly fire of our comingling
Verse 2
You hugged me and embraced me and cried out in your ecstasy,
confided to me intimately, overflowing with your plenty,
that in this very instant, as the ocean surged beneath us,
the Earth had become anointed, as Shakti had been unleashed!!!
Chorus 1
Verse 1
I looked in your eyes with wonder, forsaken, cast asunder
by your all-consuming luminance, the delirium of your laughter.
The emanations and vibrations, of the living incandescence
of your holy and abundant, captivating presence.
Chorus 2
Verse 2
Lifetimes passed between us in the labyrinths of our being;
the endless tides of oceans, the unending winds of fates.
The storms amid the rainbows, as we passed beyond the shoreline.
Though I've known you forever, the mystery never abates.
Burning Season (mp3 download) Sep 2008
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Percussion, Dan Bau, Dan Tranh
Burning Season
1.0.0 2.1.1 4.3.3 5.4.4
4.3.3 2.1.1 1.0.0. 2.1.1
4.3.3 5.4.4 8.6.6 9.8.8
8.6.6 5.4.4 4.3.3 5.4.4
1.0.0 2.1.1 4.3.3 5.4.4
8.6.6 5.4.4 4.3.3 5.4.4
4.3.3 5.4.4 8.6.6 9.8.8
8.6.6 5.4.4 4.3.3 5.4.4
8.6.6 5.4.4 12.11.11 13.12.12
10.9.9 8.6.6 9.8.8 5.4.4 (x 4)
We were riding on a hurricane
a tropical cyclone, it's all the same.
Your Venus crossed my horizon
just as my sun went down.
You told me our entanglement would set us free
You said this crazy intimacy was meant to be.
That in the centre of our cyclone
lay the spiral of our delight!
I warned you the very ground was shaking
your hills and valleys were undulating.
That all our streams and rivers
were pouring out our love.
We came together for a season
travelers in a strange land beyond all reason,
bathing in the sacred fountains
amid your flowing mountains of spice.
But then I saw we were moving on
our star-crossed encounter was 'dead and gone'.
I called out to you,
but it was already too late!
The vapor trails in the sunset
had already met their fate.
I long for you! I yearn for you!
I shall always remember our love!
I will always be entwined with you,
even as the sky's above.
Now I wander in the shadow lands
a traveler in the nether world of shifting sands
In the meeting halls of my loneliness,
in the theaters of my desire,
down the corridors of our affection,
up our spiral stairways leading higher
to the alcoves of our ecstasy,
and the conflagration of your fire.
I wish you the very best beloved
wherever you may strike land
our burning season of enchantment
will forever stand.
Andromeda (mp3 download)
Chris King: Dulcimer, keyboard, percussion, blues harp, vocals
Andromeda
Do you think, if we threw all our caution to the winds of fate?
Could we make the connection? Is it just too late?
I've been searching forever just to find a way.
It's all smoke and mirrors, looking for the avenue.
It's hard to see in the dark any point of view.
Is it getting too late in the piece to start anew?
Come and take my hand and let's walk together
down to the boon docks, under the boardwalk.
Let's keep moving, even in the darkness
down to the water line.
You know we've been spiraling ever closer
to this wholly uncertain condition,
treading water, running for cover,
hoping things will work out just fine.
Come let us walk, hand in hand together,
through the Elysian fields in the rain.
With thunder clouds breaking over our heads
we'll never feel the pain again.
Let's celebrate our Indian summer
of balmy days and spicy nights
a golden time of wine and roses
overflowing with no respite.
Running from annihilation,
in refuge from our dissipation,
can we find our way out from
our darkest clouds to sing our song?
You know we have always been waiting
to escape the bondage, to live in freedom
from all the clouds of doubt and delusion,
to unlock the secret, unravel the reason.
You know we have always been seeking
for the opening from the beginning.
The mistakes we've made and the damage done:
Can we come together and become one?
You're the princess of a dragon, standing in chains upon this restless shore,
betrothed to a serpent writhing in the sea's pounding roar.
I have come here on this journey just to find you.
To cut your chains of love free, so the bird of paradise can fly.
You can feel the salt wind rising on the waves.
We need to get out of here before the wild storm breaks.
Come take my hand and let's walk together
out of this prison, into the future.
Let's keep moving, even in the starlight
far beyond the water line.
You know we won't always be escaping
our crossing of paths, has changed the equation.
Walking on water, under the covers,
knowing things are working out fine.
Andromeda, Andromeda,
my utmost ever beautiful queen,
fairer than all the fishy mermaids
than all the pretty women I have seen.
I'll take you to my humble palace
and offer unto you my throne,
to lie in splendour close beside me,
nevermore alone.
Andromeda, the woman
who thinks of a man,
ever mindful, because we can
save each other from misfortune.
Opening the floodgates
to fertile plenty.
Remembering - you are always
in my compassion, in my belonging.
Courting you, escorting you.
Loving you in our stolen moments.
Recollecting, in our reflection
the tides of being, the times of becoming.
5.5.8-10-8 4.4.8-7-7-8-7 3.3.7-6, 4.4.7
5.5.8-10-8 4.4.7-8-7 1.1.3
5.5.8-10-8 8.8.10-12-10 4.4.7
3.3.5-8-5 5.5.8-10-8 4.4.7 4.4.7-9-7
3.3.5-8-5 0.0.2-4-2 4.4.7 4.4.7-9-7
1.1.3-5-3 3.3.5-8-5 0.0.2-42
4.4.7-9-7 3.3.5-8-5 0.0.2-4-2 4.4.7-9-7
4.4.7-5-7 1.1.3-2-3 3.3.5-8-5 0.0.2-4-2
1.1.3 3.3.5-8-5 0.0.2 4.7.7
4.4.7-9-7 3.3.5-8-5 0.0.2-4-2 4.4.7-9-7
4.4.7 3.3.5 0.0.2- 4.4.7 x 4
5.5.8 4.4.7 3.3.5 4.4.5 x 2
5.5.7 3.3.4 4.4.5 1.1.2 x 7
9.9.11-13-11
9.9.11-13-11 8.8.8-11-10-11-10 6.6.10-9, 8.8.10
9.9.11-13-11 8.8.10-12-10 4.4.6
9.9.11-13-11 11.11.13-16-13 8.8.10
6.6.9-11-9 9.9.11-13-11 8.8.10 8.8.10-12-10
6.6.9 3.3.5 8.8.10 8.8.10-12-10
4.4.6 6.6.9-11-9 3.3.5
8.8.10-12-10 6.6.9-11-9 3.3.5-8-5 8.8.10-12-10
8.8.10-9-10 4.4.6-5-6 6.6.9-11-9 3.3.5-8-5
4.4.6 6.6.9-11-9 3.3.5 8.8.10
8.8.10-12-10 6.6.9-11-9 3.3.5-8-5 8.8.10-12-10
8.8.10 6.6.9 3.3.5 8.8.10 x 4
9.9.11 8.8.10.6.6.9 8.8.9 x 2
10.10.11 6.6.8 8.8.9 4.4.5 x 8
Free Love (mp3 download)
Chris King (dulcimer, keyboard, maraccas), Christine Fielder & Christine Fielder (vocals), Heath King (percussion, bass).
The Long Ride
Have we been slumbering in the dreamtime?
As life hurtles on before our eyes.
Shooting through it in a state of sheer distraction.
A mortal condition with which we all can sympathize.
Can we still catch the living moment?
And open the gates of time and tide?
Did we gaze upon eternity
in fleeting moments we seldom recognize?
Did we become entangled in one another
just to discover the truth in how time flies?
You know our hearts have not been broken,
so we have to know we've been in for the long ride.
Do you remember - the first time we met?
We lay all night in your little tent together
making passionate love as if the morning would never come.
Wandering the streets - of old Penang
taking a bus from Medan to Lake Toba
fireflies in the monkey forest, small bats flying over.
Living on our land - of Opuhi.
Crouching together in the smoke of the meeting house.
Walking with the children down to the school bus
Staring across the gulf - at the islands.
Listening in the moonlight to the call of the Morepork,
little breezes shivering, crickets making small talk.
Decades have passed. Our children - have had children.
Biding our times, abiding whole seasons.
The cry and the smile of love beyond reason.
My gratitude to you - is ever flowing.
As long as we journey the good life together
you always will be my perennial lover.
Through many long years I've been loving you
You've always been standing by my side
In times of separation and togetherness.
Through the very flux and change we are entwined.
So this is a song of recognition
to acknowledge the tortuous journey of our lives.
Tuning: CG CC GG
8.5.5 7.4.4 5.3.3 - 7.4.4
8.5.5 10.8.8 7.4.4
5.3.3 8.5.5 7.4.4
5.3.3 4.2.28.5.5
8.5.5 7.4.4 3.1.1 - 4.2.2
5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5 - 2.1.0
11.9.9 10.8.8 9.6.6 - 10.8.8
11.9.9 13.11.11 10.8.8
9.6.6 11.9.9 10.8.8
9.6.6 8.5.5 3.1.1
11.9.9 10.8.8 6.4.4 - 8.5.5
9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9 - 6.5.4
8.5.5-8-5 5.3.3-5-3 4.2.2-4-2 3.1.1-3-1
11.9.9-11-9 9.6.6-9-6 8.5.5-8-5 6.4.4-6-4
9.6.6-9-6 6.4.4-6-4 8.5.5-8-5 6.4.4-6-4
10.8.8-10-8 8.5.5-8-5 9.6.6-9-6 5.3.3-5-3
5.3.3 4.2.2 5.3.3 4.2.2
3.1.1 4.2.2 2.0.0
3.1.1 4.2.2 8.5.5
9.6.6 8.5.5 9.6.6 8.5.5
6.4.4 8.5.5 5.3.3
6.4.4 8.5.5 11.9.9
The Descent (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, vocals, dulcimer, keyboards, pan pipes, ova;
Heath King: Bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitars, copper-bottomed pots, glass bowls and chopsticks.
Rohan King: Lead guitar (short break).
5.5.8 (c7-8 9 8-9 10 11-10 9 8)
4.4.8 (c7 8 9 9-8 7 8-7)
3.3.7 (c5-7 8 8-7 5 7 5)
2.2.5 2.2.4
Your Sweet Honey (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals)
5.5.8 3.3.5 5.5.8 (x 2)
Eurydice (mp3 download)
Chris King: Dulcimer, Andean flute, African Xylophone, Mucapata*, Percussion, Keyboards, Lyrics, Vocals. (*thumb piano, mbira or sansa)
Dulcimer tuned to FF CC DF extra DF fret at 1#
Hazelwood (mp3 download)
Chris King: Song, Instruments. W. B. Yeats: Lyrics.
Marriage Song (John Riley - traditional ballad) (mp3 download)
Chris King: Pan pipes, dulcimer, keyboards, ova. Arwen King: Flute. Heath King: Bass, Chris King & Christine Fielder (vocals)
This time round we shall pipe for you in the sacred marriage of fertility. Traditional marriage marches are a processional celebration with pipe and drum. John Riley celebrates the Dionysian sailor of the deep salt sea departing for seven years, and returning to kiss the bride three times.
Deja Vu (mp3 download)
Chris King (dulcimer, keyboard, percussion, dan bau, tui, korimako [bellbird], kiwi, kokako, kaka, ruru [morepork], takahe, lyrics, vocals)
Deja Vu
Is this deja vu a groundhog day?
Will the morning melt our troubles away?
Have we just been dreaming our future,
or caught in an endgame of fear?
Are we going to have a rude awakening?
Is this shadow a menace overtaking us,
or are the dark heavy clouds we are seeing,
just an illusion of night?
I threw off the covers and went out to the kitchen
and turned all the lights on and looked out the window
but all I could see was an endless desert
and a dust cloud blowing up a storm.
I walked right out to the edge of the garden
where the sunset makes the bushes glow golden
but when I looked down, I stood at a precipice
half a mile and ten stories high.
Can we find the way
to waken and break the deadlock of this nightmare
Can we find the key
to unlock the portals of fate?
Can we find the courage
to dispel our darkest dreams of destruction
Can we find the love
to turn our night into day?
Can we climb the ladders
into the heavens and bless this world with rainbows
Can we find the focus
to learn to be here now?
Are we awake, or are we still drowsing?
Caught in the drunkenness of too much carousing?
Can we drag ourselves from our infatuation,
long enough to let in the light?
I thought I was walking down by the ocean
and when I saw you, your dark eyes were shining
I ran and embraced you and looked down deep
into the abyss of your eyes.
I framed the urgent and ultimate question
where is the way we can get back to Ixtlan?
You shook your head, smiling at my foolishness
as I gazed up into the skies.
All at once came a gust of sea breezes
and cool salt spray spattered my body
As I felt myself shooting up faster,
I saw myself floating below.
Can we find the passage
to lead us right back into the dream time
Can we loosen the knot
to unbind the bundle of life?
Have we found the secret
to throw wide open all the doors of perception?
Can we find the intimacy
to turn scorching day to cool night?
Can we descend down deep
into the labyrinth that unfolds the future
Have we (be)come from forever
just to stand here now?
8.5.5 4.2.2
6.4.4 3.1.1
5.3.3 2.0.0
4.2.2 6.4.4
10.8.8 6.4.4
9.6.6 5.3.3
8.5.5 4.2.2
6.4.4 3.1.1
11.9.9 8.5.5
10.8.8 6.4.4
9.6.6 5.3.3
8.5.5 4.2.2
6.4.4 3.1.1
5.3.3 2.0.0
4.2.2 6.4.4
9.6.6 10.8.8
3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 2.0.0 2.1.1
3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 2.0.0 2.1.1
3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 9.6.6 10.8.8
6.4.4 8.5.5-9.6.6 5.3.3 5.4.4
6.4.4 8.5.5-9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
Fatwa on Purdah (mp3 download) Video
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, percussion, keyboard, lyrics, vocals)
A: This is my fatwa on purdah
This is my unveiling of the way.
You don't have to hide the fact you're beautiful,
so let your love light meet the light of day
B: Oh you don't have to wear the hijab
and you don't have to cover one eye at all.
Please don't be eclipsed by your jet black chador,
it's not written in there at all!
A: And you don't have to wear the burqa,
and you can let your old abaya fall.
You don't have to hide your face in the shadow of your niqab,
al-Llah never ordained it at all!
B: And you don't have to be stoned for adultery,
or whipped a hundred lashes on your side.
You are sovereign, never shameful, you are sacred.
It was a crying sin they committed to make you hide.
A: This is our song of liberation,
to open up the prison, to let us see,
for the time of awakening is the unveiling,
merciful, compassionate and free.
A: 8.5.5 7.4.4 5.3.3 3.1.1
8.5.5 7.4.4 5.3.3 7.4.4
8.5.5 7.4.4 5.3.3 3.1.1
5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
B: 11.9.9 10.8.8 9.6.6 6.4.4
11.9.9 10.8.8 9.6.6 10.8.8
11.9.9 10.8.8 9.6.6 6.4.4
9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9
Samsara (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Dan Tranh (Vietnam), Dan Bau (Vietnam), percussion.
Nirvana 1
Have we landed right in Heaven, is this Paradise?
Could the lazy days of summer feel even half as nice?
Are we slipping into Nirvana as the day goes by?
Is this brightness sheer enlightenment under the deep blue sky?
I have always been wondering what makes it all.
The meaning in existence. The way things fall.
The way our lives are scattered to the winds of fate.
The tumult and the chaos, when it's just too late.
But why are we hungering for eternal life
when peaceful coexistence gives way to endless strife?
The way of immortality is clear to see
Not deathly Armageddon, but living diversity.
Samsara 1
Oh Samsara, you living temptress
your love is going to drive me senseless
Spiraling our way into one another
in our sensual intimacy.
Though our lives may be ephemeral,
though flesh is weak and minds are fallible,
so long as our lives have perennially blossomed
we are replenishing the grail of love.
Neither were we just dust to dust
nor are we simply ashes to ashes
but the fertile seeds of procreation
amid the ova of regeneration.
I pledge again my love to you
even though nothing can ever be the same
for our longing for forever
lies drifting on the oceans of change.
Oh Samsara, essential being
my love for you is not just a feeling
but the fountain of life brimming right over
in our physical ecstasy.
Nirvana 2
Some say Paradise is full of black-eyed virgins
waiting upon our physical urges.
To fulfill our every sexual fantasy.
To climax our utmost sensation.
While others say the Heavens are full of angels
in dressing gowns, with white feathered wings.
That there can be no actual sex in Heaven,
because we have become celestial things.
Did you say the wheel of life is just a vacuum?
Did you say the world is full of hungry ghosts?
Have you forgotten Shankar's debt to Kali
That Vishnu was not just dreaming the universe?
Samsara 2 (as before)
Nirvana
13.10.9 12.9.8 x 2
11.8.6 12.9.8 9.5.4 x 2
10.6.5 8.4.3 x 2
9.5.4 5.2.1 x 2
8.4.3 9.5.4 10.6.5
8.4.3 9.5.4 5.2.1
4.1.0 8.4.3 5.2.1
8.4.3 9.5.4 10.6.5 11.8.6 12.9.8 13.10.9
Samsara
7-5-7-9-7.4.4 5-4-5-8-5.3.3 2-4-2.0.0 7-9-8-7.4.4
10-9-10-12-10.8.8 6-5-6-9-6.4.4 9-11-9.6.6 5-8-6-5.3.3
7-5-7-9-7.4.4 3-2-3-5-3.1.1 5-8-5.3.3 2-4-3-2.0.0
10-9-10-12-10.8.8 9-8-9-11-9.6.6 5-8-5.3.3 10-12-11-10.8.8
7-5-7-9-7.4.4 5-4-5-8-5.3.3 2-4-2.0.0 7-9-8-7.4.4
Sakina Lament (for the intrinsic violence at the source of Islam) YouTubeVideo Audio(mp3)
Chris King, Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
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Malaysian Divorce (mp3 download)
Chris May 2006 Dulcimer, keyboards, flute, percussion, lyrics, vocals, ugumbo
Voice on the Wind Chris: lyrics, vocals, duclimer, keyboard and bass, percussion (mp3 download)
Voice on the Wind
I hear your voice on the wind
whispering, ever so softly,
echoing through the deepest canyons
of my vagrant heart
I didn't know, how could I realize
that they would cast a curse upon you,
incarcerating you in the darkness,
tearing us all apart?
If you're locked in the shadows then how can we see you?
If you only can whisper then how can we hear you?
If you never can touch us how can we be near you?
How can we come together as one?
I sat in the springtime watching the showers.
I stood in the summer surrounded by flowers.
I lay in the moonlight counting the hours,
but now bitter winter has come.
Now I can see it'll take a commotion,
a revolution to set love in motion.
We're really going to have to throw off the covers
and tear down the walls that divide.
You know you have always been my beloved,
my comrade, my partner, my nemesis other,
my enigmatic, mysterious lover,
my song, my communion, the raison d'etre
of my very essence, your living presence
fills me and thrills me to the bone.
I hear your voice on the wind
endlessly, speaking so softly,
echoing through the hills and valleys,
down to my restless heart.
I still can't believe it,
that they would seek to subjugate you,
holding you hostage, in bondage to their honour,
trying to keep us apart!
I hear your voice in the wind,
rippling sounds of distant laughter,
longing, happiness, keeping our innocence,
singing in my aching heart.
I keep hearing your voice on the wind
calling, pleading, murmuring gently,
sharing the sweetest moments of love,
stealing my feckless heart.
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Murder Blues Chris: lyrics, vocals, duclimer, keyboard and bass, percussion (mp3 download)
Winter - Blue Murder
1.
I saw you in the street today,
but you were standing so far away
and then you turned your back on me
and wouldn't look me in the eye.
You said "Do you know you that have betrayed me?"
I replied "You might consider that you've done the same!"
You insisted we can't stand in the same room together,
so who is it now to blame?
2.
It's so true. Feeling blue.
In a stew. Out of skew.
What a screw! Shame on you!
Blame on you, murder blues!
In the winter, frozen all over,
skating on thin ice, sliding helter-skelter.
Is this a falling out, a casualty in motion,
or a static fixation, close to oblivion?
I've had it all, yes I've had enough,
of murder blues shame on you.
3.
I hear you been whispering dark insinuations,
in intimate moments, venting your outrage,
all puffed up with your indignation,
clinging to the moral high ground.
Is this a cause you really can stand up for,
or has just it become a personal affliction?
In holding a grudge that you take to the graveyard,
nothing can ever be gained.
They say the whole country is frozen right over.
There's snow from the mountains down to the plains,
but where is the thaw in this frigid existence,
where the losses outweigh the gains?
If you can't bring yourself to accept your involvement,
in setting the scene, in casting the die,
how can you ever assume responsibility,
or heal the emotional lie?
You know we have always been fellow travelers,
comrades in adversity for so many years,
so why cant you see you are burning the bridges,
of our sensibility over your fears.
There is no one who cares about all of these problems,
they are angels dancing on the head of a pin.
There is nothing we need to unravel the tangle,
no reason for the state we are in.
So why can't you see that its time to move on now
time for forgiveness, time for rapprochement,
time to be living the good life together,
so that it all comes around.
4.
As the nights grow long, I shall call upon
this elegy to you, Murder Blue.
As our life is sweet. As our time is fleet.
As our pain is real. Murder blue.
Is this where we all belong caught here in this endless song,
an anthem to you Murder Blue?
Shame on you, Same upon you!
A case of blue murder, screams the news!
Shame on you, Murder Blue! Same on you, Murder Blue!
We can cast our share of blame on Murder Blues.
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Tibet Tibet Chris: lyrics, vocals, duclimer, keyboard and bass, percussion YouTube Video
Tibet - Tibet
Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World
Have we "knocked the bastard off", or is another story to be told?#
Why is the Dalai Lama speaking "Cultural genocide"?
Can we climb the highest mountain when your children are denied?
Tibet, Tibet did you come under the yoke
of the Chinese empire in a communist cloak?
Your cities are swelling with business men's pride,
while your country folk are peasants cast on the outside.
There's an ancient stone pillar in the Jokhang square
In the centre of Lhasa if you've ever been there.
It's written in Tibetan and Mandarin too
and it spells out a message to me and to you.
It says each will respect the land of the other
and never encroach on the other nations border.
This treaty was struck in 821 AD!
Tibet, Tibet when will you be free?
Tibet, Tibet we will always be with you
in your time of hardship, in your darkest shadow,
flying prayer flags of freedom, even in the dead of night.
In this Oympian stuggle there's a Tao to the light.
Tibet, Tibet, we stand with you today!
The high ground of enlightenment, pillar of the middle way,
the jewel in the lotus, "Om Mani Padme Hum".
"Don't let them do that to you". - So goes the song*.
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*Bjork shouted Tibet Tibet after singing "Declare Independence" in Shanghai.
The Mahdi Refrain (mp3 download) - YouTube Video
A dire warning on the apocalyptic nuclear confrontation between Iran and Israel.
Chris King (composition, lyrics, vocals, dulcimer, percussion, keyboard, crotales, chimes). Iranian voices, including Iran's last president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Ayatollah Rafsanjani, an ex-president, and Amir Taheri, a former executive editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper. Israel's response is from Israel's current formal president, Shimon Peres, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin. The final response is from Christo Rey.
The Mahdi Refrain
This said the Ayatollah Rafsanjani
'the use of even one nuclear bomb
inside Israel will destroy everything.'
On the other hand, if Israel responded
with its own nuclear weapons,
it 'will only harm the Islamic world.
It is thus not at all irrational
to contemplate such an eventuality.'
This said president Ahmadinejad
"Oh mighty lord, I pray to you
to hasten the emergence of your last repository,
that perfect and pure human being,
the promised one that will fill this world with justice
the promised one that will fill the world with peace,"
My main mission is to "pave the path
for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi,
may Allah hasten his reappearance."
On the last day I was speaking, one of our group told me
"When you said 'in the name of Allah,'
I saw a light coming and surrounding you
and protecting you to the end."
"he saw a green light come from around me,
and I was placed inside this aura,"
"I felt myself the atmosphere changing,
The UN were looking as if a hand was holding them,
and they had just opened their eyes
Halleleuyah Alhamdulillah!"
All praise belongs to al-Llah,
"The establishment of the Zionist regime
was a move by the world oppressor
against the Islamic world,"
"There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks]
will wipe off this stigma from the face of the world."
As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."
"Anybody who recognizes Israel
will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury,"
"They've created a myth in the name of the Holocaust
and consider it to be above God,
above religion and the prophets."
"The near future will be in the hands of Islam",
"The Zionist regime is a dying tree,
and soon its branches will be broken down."
"We believe that Iran is trying to buy time
so it can develop a nuclear bomb,"
"Iran is a clear and present danger."
A nightmare for the international community
This is "tantamount to a crime against humanity".
"Iran presents a danger to everyone"
and it can also be wiped off the map."
"The combination of fanatical ideology,
a warped sense of reality and nuclear weapons
is a combination that no one can accept,"
"Ahmadinejad represents Satan, not God,"
"History knew how to denounce madmen
those who wave their sword and acted this way
ended their careers accordingly,"
If they have a little bit of a brain,
they would not commit such a mistake,"
Iran is a powerful country."
"If you committed this big crime,
then give a part of your own land in Europe,
the United States, Canada or Alaska,
so that the Jews can establish their country,"
"If your civilization consists of aggression,
making oppressed people homeless,
suffocating the voices of justice
we say that we hate your hollow civilization,"
"History has shown that when Muslims become powerful,
they do not use their power to the detriment of others,
but use it in the service of peace and tranquility"
Islam has four times as many young men of fighting age
as the aging populations of the decadent crumbling West
the Imam's return will coincide with an apocalyptic battle
between the forces of evil and righteousness.
If the infidel loses its nuclear advantage,
it could be worn down in a war of attrition
at the end of which surrender to Islam
would appear to be the least bad of options.
"If Jesus were present in the world today,
who would be facing him and who would be following him?"
God willing, Jesus would return to the world
along with Islam's holy prophet, Imam Mahdi,
and wipe away every tinge of oppression,
pain and agony from the face of the world,"
They say the Mahdi will teach Jesus to pray in Mecca
They claim the Mahdi will take Jesus to the Ka'aba.
"I emphatically declare today's world, more than ever,
longs for just and righteous folk with love for all humanity;
and above all longs for the perfect human being
the real true savior who has been promised to all peoples
who will establish justice, peace and brotherhood
across the planet, far and wide"
"Oh, Almighty God, all men and women are your creatures
and you have ordained their guidance and salvation.
Bestow upon a humanity that thirsts for justice,
the perfect human being promised to all by you,
and make us among his followers
and among those who strive for his return and his cause."
"The arrogant superpowers and the Zionist regime
invested all their efforts but their pride has been trampled
"With God's help now, the countdown button
for the destruction of the Zionist regime
has been pushed by the hands of the children
of Lebanon and Palestine, ...
By God's will, we will witness
the destruction of this regime in near future".
"This is a fake regime ... it won't be able to survive.
those who created it can take it away themselves.
They should not let things reach the point of explosion
If an explosion occurs across international boundaries
It will also burn all those who created [Israel]
over the past sixty years".
A statement repeated three times is never an accident
"They want to wipe out Israel ... Now when it comes to destruction,
Iran too can be destroyed
[but] I don't suggest to say an eye for an eye,"
"Israel would defend itself under any condition
but Iran is a danger to the world, not just to us."
"Under the UN Charter, all members have undertaken
to refrain from the threat or use of force
against the territorial integrity
or political independence of any state."
"We can prevent all of this threat,
without resorting to weapons of mass destruction
if there will be unity," But If the crucial moment comes
and they are incapable ...then they endanger their existence
Instrumental break
If you want me to come and pray with you at the Ka'aba
Then first renounce the archaic tribal law of Sharia
Invite every one of us to come in the name of our own religion
And terminate the scorched Earth theology of submission.
There will never be harmony until we can live in freedom
From domination and violence, in the name of utopian vision.
Cease the atrocities of martyrdom and the slaughter of the innocents
And live your days in merciful and compassionate coexistence
The apocalypse is the unveiling of matrimonial reunion
in which men forsake their violence and learn to live with women.
Stop the the death fatwas, and stoning women for adultery
and trust them in their sovereignty and love them in their liberty
For this is the way the generations of Earth will survive in splendour
And bring to men the ecstasy that paradise hungers after.
hi, med,low
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The Well (mp3 download) - YouTube Video
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, percussion, bells, violin, ugumbo (gourd & bow)
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The Pain of Love (mp3 download) - YouTube Video
Song for the travail of Zion and the healing between Israel and Palestine
Chris King, Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
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The Web of Life (mp3 download)
Chris King (vocals, song, instruments) Jane King (lyric sources)
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Hall of Mirrors (mp3 download)
Chris King, Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
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Terminator Genes (mp3 download)
Dedicated to Greenpeace and the birth of genetic ethics.
Chris King (dulcimer, vocals, percussion), Heath King (bass),
Denys Watkins (guitar), Julian Rosenberg (guitar).
Tsunami (mp3 download) - YouTube Video
Chris Feb 2005 (dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, lyrics, vocals)
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By the Waters (mp3 download)
Chris King (lyrics, vocal, dulcimer), Christine Fielder (vocal), Rohan King (vocal, piano)
Invocation - Maria Sabina Velada July 21 1956*
Thunder on the Plain (mp3 download)
Chris King (dulcimer, percussion, vocals) Julian Rosenberg (guitar)
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Beware The Milk of Paradise (mp3 download)
A Dionysian song dedicated to the flesh of the gods and to wilderness.
Lyrics: Traditional ballad "Lovely Joan" plus the closing stanzas of "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chris King: Dulcimer, keyboards, ova.
Heath King and Erle Williams: Sacramental drums.
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Pastoral Canticle (mp3 download)
Chris King: Reading from the Song of Songs
Handel: Messiah Pastoral Symphony - Collegium Musicum.
But a Piece of What Was To Be (mp3 download)
Rohan King: Composition, grand piano.
Chris King: Dulcimer accompaniment.
"It is completely melodramatic, though in a way that was the intention. It's sorrowful and yet somehow incomplete, but I suppose most importantly it's a song of passion and a song of love. Well ... that's what it is to me anyway ( not wanting to sound too pretentious and all)" - Rohan