Saturday, September 17, 2011

Mahidlawong Paghandom (Nostalgic Remembrance) with Audio

Greetings, world, especially the Southern Bisayan speaking sector!

Below is a modest product of my effort to celebrate the halcyon days of yore, those good old days which brought us to this, our ever treasured here and now. The musical score of this obsession has been the classic Russian folk song dubbed in English as "The Long Road Ahead," and popularized in the '70's by Mary Hopkins as "Those Were the Days, My Friend." It has been lyricized in almost every language you can think of. When I could not find one in Bisaya, I decided to write my own.

I first intended to circulate this effort in an audible form. But I discovered my many attempts to vocalize it has been hindered by my being choked with emotion. Maybe someday when I am less sober than I am now, I'd be able to sing it to my heart's content.

In the meantime, I enjoin everyone familiar with the tune to take it for a test drive. It goes without saying that I solicit your feedback, constructive, disparaging, indifferent or otherwise. Here's hoping I hear some from a lot of you sooner than later.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OApxb0kN0


 

Bisayan lyrics for "Those Were the Days, My Friend" or "The Long Road Ahead."

By Constancio S. Asumen, Jr. 8/25/2011


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(1)

Kahapdus handomon ang kagahapon

Ta'ng lundag sa pagandoy'ng nawagtang

Tubod sa kalimot ang mga luha

Nga naghugas ning kalag nga samaran.

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(2)

Sugyot sa kahidlaw nga dalikyaton

Kanhing gitagbo-an tang dalan

Dili mahimong mausab langkaton

Ligdong pasalig tang gi-usikan.


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.


 

(3)

Tugob sa pagla-om king handurawan

Nga magdasig sa damgong gui-hidlaw

Uhaw sa pag-amuma nga makapukaw

Sa mithing banag-banag nga tuman.


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(4)

Hilaw ki'ng baraha sa kapalaran

Ug walay tupong ang kapintas

Walay bili'ng ilang ti-aw-ti-awan

Hingpit nga pakig-bisog dili mokupas.


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Questions for Republican Primary Presidential Candidates

Questions for Republican Primary Presidential Candidates:

Good evening, fellow Americans. I have two questions:

(1)    How would your administration propose to deal with the intricacies and ramifications of baseline budgeting?

(2)    I have painstakingly demonstrated in a recently published book {chapters 11, 18, 19 & 20}*

(Cf., http://www.flirtingwithmisadventures.com/)

that to as much as pay a lip service to the narrative of Man-Made Global Warming as the gospel minted in Copenhagen purports, you have to be either intellectually incompetent, or politically dishonest, or both. How would your administration propose to deploy the enormous human and infrastructural resources at the Federal government's disposal already invested to promote and implement the popularly accepted Global Warming agenda?


 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdfAFi1XeSY


 


 

*Now available at these locations:

FriesenPress.com (Canada);

http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000001612306/

Amazon.com Whispernet (United States); and

http://www.amazon.com/Flirting-Misadventures-Escapades-Exotic-ebook/dp/B005MCCBZS/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316191673&sr=1-4

Amazon.com Whispernet (United Kingdom)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flirting-Misadventures-Escapades-Exotic-ebook/dp/B005MCCBZS

Monday, September 5, 2011

The Dignity of Labor

Labor Day Song I Vaguely Remember

There is a song I learned in my fourth grade ('53-'54) which seems most appropriate for the Labor Day celebration. I don't exactly know the title to it. I vaguely remember it as "The Dignity of Labor." But I remember singing it with my chapter delegates at the provincial 4H-Club rally during my junior year in high school ('60) to the generous acclaim of both the judges and the general audience.

If anyone knows anything about it, please be kind enough to fill me in. I want to put it in some historical context of sorts.

The clip below is just to give you an idea on how the music goes,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGPS7K7250c

The lyrics goes like this:

The Dignity of Labor

Out in the world we are going

Striving in life's glorious den

Joy and success ever seeking

Hoping to conquer and win

Labor's our best inspiration

Thrilling both body and mind

Labor enriches the nation

God's gracious gift to mankind.


 

Refrain:

In loving world there is honor

Labor with love wins the strife

Dignify and cherish labor

Giving our nation with life.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

The Dignity of Labor

Labor Day Song I Vaguely Remember

There is a song I learned in my fourth grade ('53-'54) which seems most appropriate for the Labor Day celebration. I don't exactly know the title to it. I vaguely remember it as "The Dignity of Labor." But I remember singing it with my chapter delegates at the provincial 4H-Club rally during my junior year in high school ('60) to the generous acclaim of both the judges and the general audience.

If anyone knows anything about it, please be kind enough to fill me in. I want to put it in some historical context of sorts.

The lyrics goes like this:

The Dignity of Labor

Out in the world we are going

Striving in life's glorious den

Joy and success ever seeking

Hoping to conquer and win

Labor's our best inspiration

Thrilling both body and mind

Labor enriches the nation

God's gracious gift to mankind.


 

Refrain:

In loving world there is honor

Labor with love wins the strife

Dignify and cherish labor

Giving our nation with life.

The Dignity of Labor

Labor Day Song I Vaguely Remember

There is a song I learned in my fourth grade ('53-'54) which seems most appropriate for the Labor Day celebration. I don't exactly know the title to it. I vaguely remember it as "The Dignity of Labor." But I remember singing it with my chapter delegates at the provincial 4H-Club rally during my junior year in high school ('60) to the generous acclaim of both the judges and the general audience.

If anyone knows anything about it, please be kind enough to fill me in. I want to put it in some historical context of sorts.

The lyrics goes like this:

The Dignity of Labor

Out in the world we are going

Striving in life's glorious den

Joy and success ever seeking

Hoping to conquer and win

Labor's our best inspiration

Thrilling both body and mind

Labor enriches the nation

God's gracious gift to mankind.


 

Refrain:

In loving world there is honor

Labor with love wins the strife

Dignify and cherish labor

Giving our nation with life.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

The Dignity of Labor

Labor Day Song I Vaguely Remember

There is a song I learned in my fourth grade ('53-'54) which seems most appropriate for the Labor Day celebration. I don't exactly know the title to it. I vaguely remember it as "The Dignity of Labor." But I remember singing it with my chapter delegates at the provincial 4H-Club rally during my junior year in high school ('60) to the generous acclaim of both the judges and the general audience.

If anyone knows anything about it, please be kind enough to fill me in. I want to put it in some historical context of sorts.

The lyrics goes like this:

The Dignity of Labor

Out in the world we are going

Struggling in life's glorious den

Joy and success ever seeking

Willing to conquer and win

Labor's our best inspiration

Thrilling both body and mind

Labor enriches the nation

God's gracious gift to mankind.


 

Refrain:

In loving world there is honor

Labor with love wins the strife

Dignify and cherish labor

Giving our nation with life.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Mahidlawong Paghandom (Nostalgic Remembrance)

Greetings, world, especially the Southern Bisayan speaking sector!

Below is a modest product of my effort to celebrate the halcyon days of yore, those good old days which brought us to this, our ever treasured here and now. The musical score of this obsession has been the classic Russian folk song dubbed in English as "The Long Road Ahead," and popularized in the '70's by Mary Hopkins as "Those Were the Days, My Friend." It has been lyricized in almost every language you can think of. When I could not find one in Bisaya, I decided to write my own.

I first intended to circulate this effort in an audible form. But I discovered my many attempts to vocalize it has been hindered by my being choked with emotion. Maybe someday when I am less sober than I am now, I'd be able to sing it to my heart's content.

In the meantime, I enjoin everyone familiar with the tune to take it for a test drive. It goes without saying that I solicit your feedback, constructive, disparaging, indifferent or otherwise. Here's hoping I hear some from a lot of you sooner than later.

<><><><><>

Bisayan lyrics for "Those Were the Days, My Friend."

By Constancio S. Asumen, Jr. 8/25/2011


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(1)

Kahapdus handomon ang kagahapon

Ta'ng lundag sa pagandoy'ng nawagtang

Tubod sa kalimot ang mga luha

Nga naghugas ning kalag nga samaran.

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(2)

Sugyot sa kahidlaw nga dalikyaton

Kanhing gitagbo-an tang dalan

Dili mahimong mausab langkaton

Ligdong pasalig tang gi-usikan.


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.


 

(3)

Tugob sa pagla-om king handurawan

Nga magdasig sa damgong gui-hidlaw

Uhaw sa pag-amuma nga makapukaw

Sa mithing banag-banag nga tuman.


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.

(4)

Hilaw ki'ng baraha sa kapalaran

Ug walay tupong ang kapintas

Walay bili'ng ilang ti-aw-ti-awan

Hingpit nga pakig-bisog dili mokupas.


 

Refrain:

Di ko hikalimtan, Atong kagahapon

Sa paningkamot bug-os nag antos

Atong gui-ampingan, Pagandoy'ng matuman

Bisan ug damgo lang ang madangtan.

Tra la la la la la la, etc.