Farewell, Pete Seeger

[filkertom]

Oh.

Oh.

There's an ache in my soul.

Something is lost.

There's a person-sized hole.

For ninety-four years, he was here.

Now he's gone,

But his life and his music live on.

Crude, perhaps, as a chorus. But you can all sing it with me. And maybe come up with some verses to go with it.

For Pete.

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Comments

[sdelmonte]

Oh, the tributes I will hear in the filk rooms! We will weep but also celebrate his legacies.

Though the best tributes are not in the words of songs, but in the deeds we do to honor his life.

[catsittingstill]

His memory matters--it rises and floats
Past the ache in our hearts, on the song in our throats
We'll sing in the darkness, we'll sing in the dawn.
As his life and his music live on

[capplor]

I've been hearing he's dead, no he's not, all week. Is it for real then? If so, then I'm glad that I had the chance to meet him & hear him sing (once with Malvina Reynolds) as often as I have.

Here's to singing his spirit home.

[acelightning]

I heard that his family, and many of his musically inclined friends, were with him at the end - Peter Yarrow said, "We were singing...", and I like to think that they did, indeed, sing him home. Although even if they were all crying too hard to sing, somebody, somewhere, must have been singing one of Pete's songs at the time.

[starmalachite]

"So Long, It's Been Good to Know You," indeed. Many thanks, sir, & rest well.

[gardnerhill]

I've always loved his song "Hell's Canyon."

On the shore of the Hudson River
There once lived a remarkable man.
They called him Old Pete Seeger -
But to us, what a gem of our land!

Hear the rinka-tinka-tinka-tinka playing on,
He knew what a banjo is for!
Did the rinka-tinka-tinka for a hundred years...
We'd wish for a hundred more.