Do You Hear the People Sing?
This video is of "Les Miserables: Do you hear the people sing: Sung by 17 Jean Valjeans from around the world". I found it pretty amazing to hear the words sung in so many different languages. I just love the music AND the video.
I saw "Les Miserables" a while ago, and I think of all Broadway performances I have seen, this musical impressed me most of all. The music was composed by Claude Michel Schonberg, and the lyrics were witten by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. Here is information about "Les Miserables" if you want to know more.
What I would like you to do today is either (1) just be inspired by the music and the message as a whole and write to that or (2) use one of the lines in the song in your OWN poem. Examples might be: "Do you hear the people sing?", "There is life about to start," or "when tomorrow comes." I look forward to reading what you write!
I have included the words below:
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!
When you have your poem written, please link it using Mr. Linky below. And visit the poems of others who have posted sometime during the week. Mr. Linky will close on Sunday night at 8 p.m.
