Name: Salem and Shalom
Duration: 3 min 47 s
Channel: Pete of Songs in a Bottle
Description: "Salem and Shalom" is a song by Songs-in-a-Bottle. RETRO jubilant simple foot-tapper of hope. as usual I'm stumped for which category, so I'll go for musical this time

Salem and Shalom

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RETRO jubilant simple foot-tapper of hope. as usual I'm stumped for which category, so I'll go for musical this time

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Songs-in-a-Bottle

RETRO pop songs --- from another millennium and another galaxy.

My name's Pete. from Birmingham in UK-land. Nice to meet you ! I made a lot of very varied popsongs in the pre-digital age. I say they're McCartneyish, as I don't know how to categorize them. Allsorts. The description I use is RETRO I'm really a songwriter who wants others to perform these songs. So please bear that in mind as you grimace at my efforts to be acceptable. I'm especially concerned to write good lyrics, and if you do ever give some time to my stuff, I hope you will click to the lyrics and read those also. They don't come easy, you know. I'm plonking my songs here to give them a home, in the hope you might think they're not too bad. In fact, in the hope that you'll snap them up and I'll become an instant overnight megastar multi-millionaire. But failing that, I hope that you just like them. And if you do like one - I'd especially like it if you told me so. We all need strokes, eh ? Cheers ! Pete Songs-in-a-Bottle

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Dance-Pop

Author

Pete of Songs in a Bottle

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Pete of Songs in a Bottle

Uploaded

August 03, 2008

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MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:47

Story behind the song

I was rolling the two words around in my head, thinking how similar they are, and suddenly I realised they would fit perfectly into an old, simple tune I had

Lyrics

I heard some voices chant salem and shalom
and I can tell you their sound was beautiful
I don't where those peaceful voices came from
but singing together they all made a beautiful sound

and every vocal cord gave forth a trill
and every tonsil warbled loud and shrill
nothing to frighten, nothing to fear
and in the singing all the harmonies rang clear

I heard some voices chant salem and shalom
and I can tell you, their sound was beautiful
I don't where those peaceful voices came from
but singing together they all made a beautiful sound

I sensed my spirits lifted higher and higher
by peaceful voices blended in a choir
hope sprang eternal, fear there was none
as the voices joined and sang in unison                     

and in a bonded human serenade
the most attractive music ever made
poured from the heavens and all around
was the sweetest purest synthesis of sound

I heard some voices chant salem and shalom
and I can tell you, their sound was beautiful
I don't know where those peaceful voices came from
but singing together they all made a beautiful sound

keep the voices ringing, keep the voices singing such peaceful sound

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