They had been a highly regarded singing group who recorded and carried out folks songs within the 1960’s equivalent to, If I had a Hammer, Blowing within the Wind, Lemon Tree, The place Have all of the Flowers Gone, and many others.
What you may not bear in mind is their superb tune, Gentle One Candle.
From Wikipedia:
“The primary efficiency of the tune was at a 1982 live performance in Carnegie Corridor.[1]
The tune was written in 1982[2] by group member Peter Yarrow as a pacifist response to the 1982 Lebanon Struggle (with Israel), an intention was mirrored within the lyrics “Gentle one candle for the horrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand, Gentle one candle for the knowledge to know when the peacemaker’s time is at hand.”[3][1]
In 1983, the three singers (solely Peter is Jewish) traveled to Israel to carry out at an giant out of doors live performance within the holy metropolis of Jerusalem.
Tonight is the primary night time of Chanukah/Hanukkah.
We mild our Hanukkah candles this yr with heavy hearts remembering the horrific atrocities that not too long ago transpired in Israel focusing on infants, youngsters, girls, and the aged. We pray for the discharge of the entire harmless hostages that had been brutally kidnapped and are being stored in prisoners in darkish underground tunnels and we mourn for the various that weren’t taken as hostages, however as an alternative had been burned alive or beheaded, some after first being brutally raped.
Peter, Paul, and Mary’s Hanukkah tune, written in the course of the Israel Lebanon warfare, is a tune of hope for peace. It seems to be again to the story of Hannukah, the early battle 2,000 years in the past when the Jewish Maccabees defended Jerusalem in opposition to the mighty Assyrian military and saved the Jewish individuals and the holy Temple that the Assyrians had desecrated. That’s the miracle of Hanukkah.
Peter, Paul, and Mary highly effective Hanukkah tune continues to be a reminder to be robust and have hope in the course of the present state of affairs of terror, warfare, and the anti-semitism that’s brewing proper now.
The tune is gorgeous, inspiring, and price taking a couple of minutes to take heed to it.
The refrain of the tune:
“Do not let the sunshine exit, It is lasted for therefore a few years. Do not let the sunshine exit, Let it shine by way of our love and our tears.
