From Chinmaya Dunster’s most recent album, A Treasure Box of Stories
Lyrics
Now thanks for all we shared when young
And field and forest held our games
I thought our playing would go on
Until the time our hair grew grey
I thought our playing would go on
Beneath the shining leaves of birch
From where our summerhouse high on the hill
Down to the red painted village church
Since then I’ve waited time on time
Up there where deer and eagles play
But shadows passed over darkening hills
And you – you didn’t find the way.
Nu tak for alt, ifra vi var små
og legte sammen i skog og lage’.
Jeg tænkte, legen den skulde gå
op i de grånende dage.
A loose translation by Chinmaya of a poem by the Norvegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910, Nobel Prize 1903), recorded in Pune around 2000 with additional vocals by Surahbhi
A Treasure Box of Stories
An album of Chinmaya’s songs to nature and life’s mysteries, composed and sung 1996-2024, never before released.
- Easy’s Right Composed in a Munich garden 1996, recorded in Hamburg and his vocals and keys, Pune 2000
- Now Summer’s Here Again, composed in Amsterdam 1996, recorded in Hamburg 1996 and Pune 2000
- Nu Tak For Alt, a loose translation of a song by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1860’s), recorded in Maui 1997
- Charlie Girl, composed in Pune 1989. Several versions recorded in the ’90s. Finally sung it myself in 2023
- All is Worship, inspired by Rumi, recorded in 1999 in Pune and dedicated to Naveena
- Music For People Like You and I, based on a riff by Makassey Orchestra, recorded with Koyal, UK 2022
- This Moment, from the poem by Kathleen Raine, recorded in New Zealand 2019 (see oshonews.com)
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