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65. Each and Every Day
… that spacious place. 14. O Master of the world, and the universe, unto You I turn. Your People please protect; helpless …
64. Open Your Gate
… that spacious place. 14. O Master of the world, and the universe, unto You I turn. Your People please protect; helpless …
63. Singing, Singing
… from Parur sang and recorded for Barbara the first few verses from her own notebook. An almost identical text of …
61. Lord from the Beginning
… one is less a translation than a free rendering of some verses, with other themes added and some of Maimonides’s …
54. David and the Mosquito
… Then stanza 2 quotes his fervent prayers to God, drawn from verses in the Psalms, for which he is traditionally …
52. The Song of “Anokhi”
… collectively. But in the corresponding Malayalam verses, each decree is commanded “by ’Anokhi”—implying that …
45. Joseph’s Robe
… by four Paradesi women who chose to sing only its first few verses, apparently finding the simple and repetitive tune … includes the first nine of as many as thirty-four verses in eight variants of the song, found mainly in …
44. Joseph the Righteous
… as song 1 (“Oh, Lovely Parrot”), these three preliminary verses set out the themes of two biblical stories that were …
38. Song About Love
… terms for the qualities of God, and in the concluding verses, which are typical of other devotional hymns. Gamliel …
32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… wedding gifts. For this song, the women alternated verses about the bride and the groom, and they also improvised verses of praise to the donors of gifts (Daniel and Johnson … Narayanan and Daniel mention the practice of improvising verses for polika songs; their comments shed light on the …