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Wayfaring Strangers biography, Wayfaring Strangers discography
Like so many others Wayfaring Strangers began
life as a pub duo.Pubs in Germany over ten years ago.In 1994 he teamed
up for the first time with Martin Ahrndt from Cologne.Wayfaring Strangers have quickly built up a
steadily growing fan base.Wayfaring Strangers know that their performance is always worth
getting up for.The Press is now starting to sit up and take note:
'...The song "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" is
of unknown origin, however some argue it's roots are derived from the folk songs of
pioneering Irish settlers, others say it sprang from the spirituals of former
African slaves.The melody is haunting and a real discovery.But what the hell, the journey is worth it so we will walk the path till we reach the end.Theological implications, polemics, interpretations and study certainly have there bearing but are insignificant when seen against the light of personal experience and understanding that comes from a one to one relationship.Jesus or the Buddha or Rumi and listening to their words, walking with them, sharing a meal, sharing the pain and the agony and the sheer joy of spiritual fulfillment.God is worshipped and put in a slot.We could go on living frivolous, inane lives, attracted by the ease of superficialities, driven by forces that we cannot or are not interested in resisting.We could go on doing all these things and worse because it is the easiest thing to do.We do not have to own responsibility.We will do all this and more because we are sacred to face the reality of our lives.We do not want to listen to that voice that comes deep with ourselves.Is it us as we see ourselves as?Neither does our belief and faith or lack of define us.We are something much much higher than all that.We could go through life without the realization dawning on us.You always come up smelling like roses.You turn on the TV; there is this cute little thing in laceShe makes a million bucks just to shake her butt in your face.The light is on, darkness seeps through the sheets.And he can come up and kiss your ass.Get drunk and drive on home.You turn on the TV; there is a man with a gun in his hand.Gravities got the better off her buttA little tightening drives the men wild.When she takes off her clothesShe really looks like a million bucks.The man there said, he was here, but he left early.They said, if you do see him, tell him we are waiting for his second coming.Church and the Pastor threw the good book at me.Listen son, he said, you got to buy the whole shebang, go whole hog.Be washed in the blood of the lamb.They said he was Odin, Adonis, Mithras.Adam, Noah, Abraham, David, Elijah.Great doubt and great faith.It would all have been nice if I was a Jew.They are my chosen people.So much for the Old Testament.My will, my way of life has finally triumphed and Jesus will always stay on the cross of his own undoing.He took a swig from the bottle and looked me in the eye.Who really are the blessed?Is the Pope in his entire pontificate splendor blessed?This crude stanchions of his brute passion.We find it hard to accept someone like Jesus.He questions all our pet notions and breaks with impunity all that rules we abide by.But when we see him as God, things sure becomes easy.Location: Thrissur, Kerala, India
Like Mary Gauthier says in her song, 'I drink', Fish swim, birds fly, Daddy's yell, mama's cry...Home is the final reward of reuniting with loved ones in Heaven in the afterlife.Ives used it as the title of his early 1940s CBS radio show and his 1948 autobiography.The first known printing of it is in Ananias Davisson's Kentucky Harmony, or, A Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems, in Three Parts.It was performed by Jack White for the film, in which he played the character Georgia
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Dusty Springfield on the 2007 DVD 'Live At The BBC'.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This page was last modified on 5 June 2008, at 00:45.Ironically, for a people accused of miscegenation, they
marry only within their community.An
Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America" documents the denial and loss
of their history and culture.Investigations into the origin of the Melungeon have turned up many significant
theories and clues.One of these theories, that they are part Gypsy, was
put forward as early as the October 1889 issue of American Anthropologist
by Swan Burnett, M.One of the clues is the large number of Melungeon who
explain away their dark skin by claiming a Black Dutch ancestor.In her comprehensive and objective article, "In Search of the Black Dutch",
Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.Their
descendants are widely reported, yet no authoritative definition exists for
this intriguing term."But rarely does German Gypsy enter the list of possibilities.Curiously,
American German Gypsies living today have always called themselves Black
Dutch, have never heard of it meaning anything but German Gypsy, and are
surprised to hear it could mean anything else.This high German word may have been derived
from the expression, "go away, thief" or from Atsinganoi, the name of a religious
group who like the Gypsies, did not like to be touched by outsiders.In any case the term begins to show up in print
and I1ve excerpted those germane to this article from The Dictionary of American
Regional English, "black Dutch n.Dark
Pennsylvania Mountain people, probably of Near Eastern or Aboriginal stock.The Foxes are known as "Black Dutch."He remains the best authority and this paper is primarily
based on his writings.In a 1924 address he stated that "At least until the
1850s "the men were of medium size, very slim and erect, with good features
and large dark eyes.Pennsylvania German
people, where strange, dark types predominate, was apparent.Central and near Eastern polyglot that swarmed into
Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth century of diverse origins."German
Gypsies arrived under similar duress.German Gypsies, who had "inhabited
the Palatinate or Rhine County, for many centuries, wandering the entire
distance between Schaffhausen and Middelburg on their
migrations."By 1710 flogging, branding, separation from kin and exile became the standard
punishment for Gypsy men and women with no criminal charges against them.In 1734 Gypsy hunts became an established
and profitable sport, with a reward of "six Reichstaler for every live Gypsy
brought in and three for a dead Gypsy, as well as keeping their belongings"
5 "In 1826, Freiherr von Lenchen displayed his trophies publicly:
the severed heads of a Gypsy woman and her child.They were driven overboard, men, women and children, like a plague
of rats, and had to jump out in the mud up to their waists, and get ashore
as best they could, leaving their possessions behind, which were seized as
a fine levied against them as a body.Daniel Rupp's "Thirty Thousand Names of German
Emigrants."Palatines, but on arriving at their final destinations in inland Pennsylvania
sometimes bought out their employer's farm, buildings, livestock and implements
and all to the surprise of those worthy Pietists.Redemptioner method of emigration, as some were dumped on the inhospitable
New England cost, others in New Jersey, and still others in the far South
instead of at the ports along the Delaware.Smith's
"White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina" reports that "The largest group
represented outside of the British Isles were the Germans.Many of these
Germans came as redemptioners."Irish who settled the piedmont and mountainous
regions from Maryland to Georgia came to America through the ports of
Philadelphia and Newcastle, Delaware, and finding lands occupied in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey were gradually pushed toward the south, till they were met
by a smaller stream of the same people who came through the port of Charleston
to South Carolina and thence to the frontier.Common Names of the Black Dutch
As if the genealogy and origins of the Black Dutch were not complex enough,
it is important to note that Gypsies often have two names, one that is private
and for family use and one that is public for official records and conducting
business.Andrew Jackson Mullinses living at the same
time."Interestingly, a variant of the name Mullens, Mullen,
may have been a Gypsy name as it appears alongside Chicanere and Romanichal
names in an August 30th, 1862 article in The Rock Island Argus .The men,
Constant Smith , Frank Schwartz, John Boswell and Cornelius Mullen, approached
the press to offer references and assurances of their honesty.He quotes the paper as saying, "There is yet another tribe,
at or near Schenectady, called Yansers, although their patriarchal name is
Kaiser.Behold, it was for chastising Gypsies whenever occasion presented, which
was done with impunity and for some profit..."Indian or "Black Dutch" heritage."Chicanere names are Smith, Schwartz, Womeldorf.This confusion may have arisen when Chicanere began traveling with
Romanichals.Gypsies
or Gadje and lost their cultural heritage.Things that come into contact with the upper
body must not come into contact with the lower body.The cat is an
especially unpopular animal because it licks itself, taking dirt from the
outside to the inside.Bad luck can also contaminate.Men's and women's clothing and upper and lower body clothing are washed
separately.Pets are dirty animals and are never allowed to live in the house.They must certainly never be allowed to eat out the dishes that people use.Another important component of Romnipen is fellowship.Being with other Roma
keeps the spirit healthy, being away from Roma depletes it.It must have also brought about a sense of order and control in
a hostile, uncontrollable world where murder was a daily threat and genocide
a real possibility.Because Gadje don't follow all of these rules they are unclean, can contaminate
and must be kept at a careful distance (although there are exceptions in
which all Roma including Chicanere adopted vagabonds).As a result,
contamination, or Marhime, brings with it the very real threat of exile from
the clan.Since many of the regulations involve menstruation, childbirth, cleaning
and cooking it falls to the women to maintain them.Fate in America
But, "Only a small percentage of the hundreds of continental Gypsies who
came to Pennsylvania as redemptioners in the last half of the Eighteenth
Century ever rescued themselves from this new environment."Chicanere "who reached Philadelphia were ultimately reunited
into family groups, and as soon as this was done their instinct took them
to the road."
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