LAGRIME MIE - Zachary James, Brandon J. Acker, Barbara Strozzi, Bonnie Montgomery (Official Video)
From the 2020 audio and visual album CALL OUT from Zachary James and company, available where music is streamed!
Lagrime Mie
Music by Barbara Strozzi
New Lyrics by Bonnie Montgomery
Theorbo, Brondon J. Acker
Lyrics
Oh blessed earth,
I cry, cry out for thee!
The beauties of your nights,
and the light, the light of the seas,
and the waters of life, and the waters of life.
Mother Earth, Mother Earth,
How could they, in their greed,
ignore your voice, you who gives all of life,
you who gives all of life, and all breath?!
And the beauties of nature,
and the beauties and innocence.
And the sun, and the beams,
so beautiful in their splendor!
And how, oh how, can you cry out,
cry aloud to the sun, oh cry?
I cry! I cry out unto the heavens,
and the sun, the sun that shines on thee!
And the jewels! The bluest jewels of heaven,
of heaven, the bluest of all of the heavens.
Oh blessed earth, I cry out!
I cry for thee!
You the bluest, you the bluest, you the bluest
of all the jewels of heaven, all the jewels.
All the jewels, all the jewels,
all the jewels of the heavens,
Oh Earth, the bluest of all!
I will cry, I will cry, I will cry,
I will cry for thee!
All the bitter pain, the bitter pain,
the bitter, all the bitter pain...
I will cry for you, cry out for you, cry out for you,
Oh Earth, oh Mother Earth.
Oh Earth in heaven,
Sapphire of the stars!
Oh blue sapphire of the stars,
Sapphire of the heavens,
Sapphire of the stars!
Oh, let me cry out for thee!
Now I will sing the song of earth!
The cry of the Earth,
of the Earth.
Water is life, water is life, water is life!
Mni wiconi, wiconi!
I cry, I cry for you, Oh Earth!
For, your water is life!
CALL OUT audio album now streaming on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, KKBox, Pandora and more. Visual album exclusively on YouTube.
with
Zachary James, Voice
Charity Wicks, Piano
Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello
Bonnie Montgomery, Piano
Brandon J. Acker, Theorbo
Megan Nielson, Soprano
Frederick Poholek, Guitar
Kevin Skrla, Steel Guitar
music by
Juliana Hall
Kristin Hevner
Apsara Kasiraman
Bonnie Montgomery
Rene Orth
Rachel J. Peters
Paola Prestini
Kamala Sankaram
Barbara Strozzi
Persis Vehar
words by
Lewis Carroll
Lucretia Davidson
George Klawitter
Robert Maddock
Edgar Allan Poe
Rumi
Royce Vavrek
Caitlin Vincent
