I have been searching for this song for 6 months. At long last! I contacted the radio station that played it. I am transported I back to my lyrical, dreamy self, of 12, staring into the lake with the racing clouds reflected in the glassiness below me. It evokes such a sense of beauty, of preciousness of this amazing world. I am filled with compassion for all the living beings, the water, earth, and sky. I want no more than to be an instrument of this divine peace and the great creator, a humble vehicle. I am blessed to have worked for countless Summers as a naturalist and ranger with low pay. Yet this is the rich life and I just want to share it with the world, and open the door to this way of being as yet expressed in this beautiful poem and song.....I long for a world free of cars, noise, materialism, technology. Thank you.
Thank-You for your service, and I agree this song brings me back to so long ago. Back before all our great advances. When we were closer to the earth. Living and growing "up" in the UP in the fifties and sixties was very much like living in Mayberry. We lived a 1/4 mile from Silver Lake (used to have the train there) and when we weren't picking rocks, or potato bugs, we would be fishing and camping there. We would ride our bikes to Lehto's Pastie Shop where a quarter spent like a dollar, because of the owners kindness. Then we would swim in the big lake at "boat harbor" bringing along our fishing poles so we could catch white bass off the rocky point. The Brown's were very kind to let us enjoy the place fishing and swimming off their dock. I might move to Canada. My Grandpa was a Canadian citizen so I would be able to.
A romantic utopia longing for cars, noise, materialism, enlightenment, health and social welfare and security, they're not called savages for nothing you know.
Reminds me of a lake in Northern Ontario that I was camping by and one morning I woke up at dawn and found a canoe on the shore no one else in the campground was awake at the time and I was all alone. I paddled out to the small island in the lake through the mists of the water just as the sun was coming up through the trees. There was no sound at all except for my paddle in the water and far off on the other side of the lake I heard a loon. I will never forget that morning and that lake
What an experience! I felt like I was looking through the eyes of Hiawatha and Longfellow at the same time. Amazing, mesmerizing, close to perfection! Thank you for this creation.
Had this on a cassette many years ago. Reminds me of driving through France and Spain in the summer of 1979 in a metallic brown Ford Capri Mk1, happy days. After watching, was inspired to order the CD from Amazon. Many thanks!
The story is about the wilderness on North America & the rendition of People & Nature. Cool Story-telling! Thanks for the natural beauty. T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Educator & Hiker of the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin
I find, when reading Hiawatha's form of verse, that it's easy to let the lines flash by before your eyes. This musical rendition of a small part of the piece keeps a steady slow pace that - with the vocals and your excellently paced imagery - makes a magical and somewhat hypnotic experience. Well done!
Je vous félicite cordialement. Un oeuvre qui accomplit la chante. Carreé par carré. Une chante quotidienne de "l'Amérique" bien avant que "la civilisation" y est arrivée. Ça peut être un chanson environmantalist "sostalgique"
The very first time I heard the album I was a boy, the whole original airborne in concert from the beginning introduction tubular bells and then the song came sleeping in my bed, i heard again and again for years the whole album is a magical trip, it is really an unforgettable masterpiece..... .....and how many nights I heard this album, or driving, or searing in an afternoon sunset......
Never thought that anything could add to Mike Oldfield's masterpiece... but this combination of words and pictures does it! Marvellous. Being what might be described as a "Christian Green", I find myself lifted up on many different levels here. Thank you for all the effort that went into this.
One of my favourites! Beautiful music and Maddy Prior's vocals :-) I honestly thought no-one could "visually" capture the "feel" of this song. 100% Kudos to SonicSouvenir. You felt the music, heard the song, and made something which is pure, undiluted class.
About 65 years ago, at school in London, we sang The Song of Hiawatha - but it was another tune. I've never forgotten it, but I can't find it anywhere.
great song love it yes takes you to a time of greatness with natives ,nature ,and four direction path finding of mother earth in earlier time in forest where women give birth to children in water,and fish clean new born in to the world!!.
Haha - thanks for the question. In British cinemas every movie have some adverts before the main movie. These adverts are distributed by a company called Pearl and Dean, and that start music is their signature tune. Therefore if you ever went to see a movie, you would always hear that music at the start of the commercials before the movie. I simply 'borrowed' it for my signature tune, because I think is is awesome too :) To hear the full version visit 'Pearl and Dean Asteroid' on You Tube.
No , living in Michigan at the edge of Lake Superior which they used to call gitche gumee . The only other time I ever heard of gitche gumee was in The Haunting song called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald which was big in the 1970s... I don't know if you know that song but it is here on RUclips.. one version of it has real photos all the area and the ship and the sailors who died... another vid has the lyrics .
Awesome! I always loved both Incantations vocal endings, but I never found the lyrics. Now I not only found the lyrics, but also discovered it's the song from a native American.
Translate this into the Old Tongue of the First Men and it would be a great accompaniment for a video about the Children of the Forest and the First Men. It evokes a sense of morning, in a young world as yet uncontaminated by men.
yeah two face's of ancestors yes one the Clovis tribe's, other Olmec tribe's mesoamerica what we native indigenous aboriginal people call trutle island!!😁 thank's for video it was very good!.
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him, through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest
trying find out if this Hiawatha was an ancestor, I need contact from somebody who may know, I was also raised on a hill named after Hiawatha, lots et stuff, dm me
With a smile of joy and gladness With a look of exultation As of one who in a vision Sees what is to be, but is not Read more: MIKE OLDFIELD - THE SONG OF HIAWATHA LYRICS
Nice. Intriguing. But I'm truly moved by Oldfield's counterpart to this, "Incantations Part 4 (excerpt)," Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair by Ben Jonson
First time I heard this... nice. Not sure why Oldfield used African timber tones, has nothing to do with North America. IF someone could enlighten me, appreciated.
It does have a nice rich sound , if you think about it . Although I did hear that American Indians use drums made out of animal skins... maybe Mike Oldfield also did something like that here... listen to a lot of it drumming sounds used nowadays that are synthetic they are hideous... real torture to the ears.... sounds like plastic sticks hitting a piece of plastic.. . Or plastic sticks hitting paper... just some really horrible sound that has no beauty or resonance . It's used a lot in songs here on RUclips that are free for people to use and they are creating content . That's why I like this sound because it's very rich
Many different tribes on Turtle Island...amazing what one finds in scripture and the old ways of other peoples....scripture even has the take over of the new land by those using His Name in a way in which angered HIM....just look for the word confederacy for a key. The Peacemaker gave the Six Nations the knowledge of the Conferacy found in the Great Law which He also gave to the "tribes". One interested would be amazed at how similar some native american traditional ways are to ancient customs deemed to originate accross the waters. It is unfortunate that all tribes seem to have lost their way, their roots and hence the truth, the one thing that will solve all the world's troubles.
I'm confused I don't know what you mean as the lyrics are there.... maybe they weren't there a year ago and they decided to add them more recently ?....
That way, |^| go put out the fire. This is not a drill. An Oldfield rendition and sonic-souvenir. Sonic sure makes a visible difference. 2021 Presidential Week in favor of President Joe Biden. Wonder where Bob Barker might be? On Elephant Safari. Way out there were Dan and I found cool water. Supertramp and real water. BAK
I have been searching for this song for 6 months. At long last! I contacted the radio station that played it. I am transported I back to my lyrical, dreamy self, of 12, staring into the lake with the racing clouds reflected in the glassiness below me. It evokes such a sense of beauty, of preciousness of this amazing world. I am filled with compassion for all the living beings, the water, earth, and sky. I want no more than to be an instrument of this divine peace and the great creator, a humble vehicle. I am blessed to have worked for countless Summers as a naturalist and ranger with low pay. Yet this is the rich life and I just want to share it with the world, and open the door to this way of being as yet expressed in this beautiful poem and song.....I long for a world free of cars, noise, materialism, technology. Thank you.
Thank-You for your service, and I agree this song brings me back to so long ago. Back before all our great advances. When we were closer to the earth. Living and growing "up" in the UP in the fifties and sixties was very much like living in Mayberry. We lived a 1/4 mile from Silver Lake (used to have the train there) and when we weren't picking rocks, or potato bugs, we would be fishing and camping there. We would ride our bikes to Lehto's Pastie Shop where a quarter spent like a dollar, because of the owners kindness. Then we would swim in the big lake at "boat harbor" bringing along our fishing poles so we could catch white bass off the rocky point. The Brown's were very kind to let us enjoy the place fishing and swimming off their dock. I might move to Canada. My Grandpa was a Canadian citizen so I would be able to.
A romantic utopia longing for cars, noise, materialism, enlightenment, health and social welfare and security, they're not called savages for nothing you know.
A honest value of self expression still makes the World Shine. BAK
Not free from technology please..as It makes possible ti learn about nature and music. Blessings!
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The same melody repeated over and over. But what a melody. This is beautiful - hyptnotic and wonderful.
Music doesn't get much better than this ...Mike Oldfield is a genius and Maddys voice is enchanting.. pure brilliance
Not better bad to worse
@@aggabus Cloth eared nincompoop.
A very beautiful song, sung by an extraordinary singer.
Reminds me of a lake in Northern Ontario that I was camping by and one morning I woke up at dawn and found a canoe on the shore no one else in the campground was awake at the time and I was all alone. I paddled out to the small island in the lake through the mists of the water just as the sun was coming up through the trees. There was no sound at all except for my paddle in the water and far off on the other side of the lake I heard a loon. I will never forget that morning and that lake
What an experience! I felt like I was looking through the eyes of Hiawatha and Longfellow at the same time. Amazing, mesmerizing, close to perfection! Thank you for this creation.
Had this on a cassette many years ago. Reminds me of driving through France and Spain in the summer of 1979 in a metallic brown Ford Capri Mk1, happy days. After watching, was inspired to order the CD from Amazon. Many thanks!
The story is about the wilderness on North America & the rendition of People & Nature. Cool Story-telling!
Thanks for the natural beauty.
T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Educator & Hiker of the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin
I just got the re-release of this today and completely forgot how damn good this was....Incantations is an amazing soundscape! Mike is God!
As someone from Hiawatha Ont. This is dope
For a moment ... transported away. Thank you!
I find, when reading Hiawatha's form of verse, that it's easy to let the lines flash by before your eyes. This musical rendition of a small part of the piece keeps a steady slow pace that - with the vocals and your excellently paced imagery - makes a magical and somewhat hypnotic experience. Well done!
So glad my ancestors are back to retrieve the stolen land 🙌🏾
Enchanting ! The last few verses wet my eyes....
Now I know the lyrics, thanks you. Good job and video.
Je vous félicite cordialement. Un oeuvre qui accomplit la chante. Carreé par carré.
Une chante quotidienne de "l'Amérique" bien avant que "la civilisation" y est arrivée.
Ça peut être un chanson environmantalist "sostalgique"
Mesmerizing.
The very first time I heard the album I was a boy, the whole original airborne in concert from the beginning introduction tubular bells and then the song came sleeping in my bed, i heard again and again for years the whole album is a magical trip, it is really an unforgettable masterpiece.....
.....and how many nights I heard this album, or driving, or searing in an afternoon sunset......
Maddy's voice still gives me goosebumps after all this time. Sweet memories of the New Forest and Acid visions.
love this. earth is such a lovely planet.
Never thought that anything could add to Mike Oldfield's masterpiece... but this combination of words and pictures does it! Marvellous. Being what might be described as a "Christian Green", I find myself lifted up on many different levels here. Thank you for all the effort that went into this.
I love this
Beautiful, a favourite, thank you.
If the world had its own song, it would be this.
recorded some 35 years ago; great singing by Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior.
Listening to this at the moment on vinyl, I bought it when it first came out many years ago.
One of my favourites!
Beautiful music and Maddy Prior's vocals :-)
I honestly thought no-one could "visually" capture the "feel" of this song.
100% Kudos to SonicSouvenir.
You felt the music, heard the song, and made something which is pure, undiluted class.
C'est bon regarder. Merci aussi pour la musique.
SO beautiful! (Longfellow's poem, Oldfield's composition and SonicSouvenir's video!)
About 65 years ago, at school in London, we sang The Song of Hiawatha - but it was another tune. I've never forgotten it, but I can't find it anywhere.
haunting///haunting///haunting/// that family at the very end!
great song love it yes takes you to a time of greatness with natives ,nature ,and four direction path finding of mother earth in earlier time in forest where women give birth to children in water,and fish clean new born in to the world!!.
❤⚘ Thank you
Maddy nailed it !
succintly (and very accurately!) put
a shock to the system every time
This melody can be used to sing through all poem. Nice!
I can't believe I ve found it
Haha - thanks for the question. In British cinemas every movie have some adverts before the main movie. These adverts are distributed by a company called Pearl and Dean, and that start music is their signature tune. Therefore if you ever went to see a movie, you would always hear that music at the start of the commercials before the movie. I simply 'borrowed' it for my signature tune, because I think is is awesome too :) To hear the full version visit 'Pearl and Dean Asteroid' on You Tube.
That took some time to make.... dark and beautiful I'm glad someone did it.
This is lovely!
From what I recall, Hiawatha was not a Plains Indian living in a teepee.
No , living in Michigan at the edge of Lake Superior which they used to call gitche gumee . The only other time I ever heard of gitche gumee was in The Haunting song called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald which was big in the 1970s... I don't know if you know that song but it is here on RUclips.. one version of it has real photos all the area and the ship and the sailors who died... another vid has the lyrics .
Long house
Thanks, I was familiar with it however I didn't ever quite know where it was from.
Awesome! I always loved both Incantations vocal endings, but I never found the lyrics. Now I not only found the lyrics, but also discovered it's the song from a native American.
Firebrand TF f
The song wasn't written by a native, it's about one though.
i like the meaning of the song and the poem it's so very touching
Great song
the song is very beautiful
Esto es algo superior. Escucharlo es toda una experiencia.
Merci...
Good song
We gonna sing this song in the school 😜
Translate this into the Old Tongue of the First Men and it would be a great accompaniment for a video about the Children of the Forest and the First Men. It evokes a sense of morning, in a young world as yet uncontaminated by men.
yeah two face's of ancestors yes one the Clovis tribe's, other Olmec tribe's mesoamerica what we native indigenous aboriginal people call trutle island!!😁 thank's for video it was very good!.
Thanks Nancy
By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.
All the air was full of freshness,
All the earth was bright and joyous,
And before him, through the sunshine,
Westward toward the neighboring forest
Yes, CelluloidKid, I think your passage is the original Longfellow poem. But I suppose it is fair to give musicians some artistic licence.
trying find out if this Hiawatha was an ancestor, I need contact from somebody who may know, I was also raised on a hill named after Hiawatha, lots et stuff, dm me
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I love and hate this as Maddy Prior was constantly off tuned and my ear is quartz controlled...
Had to search this so I could do my school assignments
With a smile of joy and gladness
With a look of exultation
As of one who in a vision
Sees what is to be, but is not
Read more: MIKE OLDFIELD - THE SONG OF HIAWATHA LYRICS
Red swan event “and the water will turn to red”.
Nice. Intriguing. But I'm truly moved by Oldfield's counterpart to this, "Incantations Part 4 (excerpt)," Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair by Ben Jonson
Hmmmm....Sturgeon is the common name used for some 25 species of fish in the family..
très beau
By the shores of kitchen gourmet.
Non, je vous remercie pour regardez :)
What's the bit of music at the beginning, it's awesome.
First time I heard this... nice.
Not sure why Oldfield used African timber tones, has nothing to do with North America.
IF someone could enlighten me, appreciated.
It does have a nice rich sound , if you think about it . Although I did hear that American Indians use drums made out of animal skins... maybe Mike Oldfield also did something like that here... listen to a lot of it drumming sounds used nowadays that are synthetic they are hideous... real torture to the ears.... sounds like plastic sticks hitting a piece of plastic.. . Or plastic sticks hitting paper... just some really horrible sound that has no beauty or resonance . It's used a lot in songs here on RUclips that are free for people to use and they are creating content . That's why I like this sound because it's very rich
Was that Steven Seagal doing a stand in for Hiawatha? 😂
I've got to say that intro is raucous and horrible, especially plonked in front of the pure and eternal genius of Oldfield and Longfellow
Thank You Our Father's of fathers before... |//×|×\\| os triq, ber3anon
a fruit-bearing tree 3 a moment; coming
Is 2 dull bar 9 min repeat
Many different tribes on Turtle Island...amazing what one finds in scripture and the old ways of other peoples....scripture even has the take over of the new land by those using His Name in a way in which angered HIM....just look for the word confederacy for a key. The Peacemaker gave the Six Nations the knowledge of the Conferacy found in the Great Law which He also gave to the "tribes". One interested would be amazed at how similar some native american traditional ways are to ancient customs deemed to originate accross the waters. It is unfortunate that all tribes seem to have lost their way, their roots and hence the truth, the one thing that will solve all the world's troubles.
Can I have the lyrics please????
I'm confused I don't know what you mean as the lyrics are there.... maybe they weren't there a year ago and they decided to add them more recently ?....
That way, |^| go put out the fire. This is not a drill. An Oldfield rendition and sonic-souvenir. Sonic sure makes a visible difference. 2021 Presidential Week in favor of President Joe Biden. Wonder where Bob Barker might be? On Elephant Safari. Way out there were Dan and I found cool water. Supertramp and real water. BAK
8100
Who else is here from Spider-Man 2? Just me? Oh, ok..
Williams Shirley Martinez Paul Hall Laura
Pigmys
Armageddon
The Fuck was that opening....?
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Boring repetitious. Dull tone..unimaginative..