Soul Cake - Sting video free download


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Duration: 03:29
Uploaded: 2009/10/23

SOUL CAKE

A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.

An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,

any good thing to make us all merry,

A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.

One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.

An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,

any good thing to make us all merry,

God bless the master of this house, and the mistress also.

And all the little children that round your table grow.

The cattle in your stable and the dog by your front door.

And all that dwell within your gates

we wish you ten times more.

A soul, a soul cake...

Go down into the cellar and see what you can find.

If the barrels are not empty we hope you will be kind.

We hope you will be kind with your apple and pear

For we'll come no more a soalin till Xmas time next year.

A soul, a soul cake...

The streets are very dirty, my shoes are very thin.

I have a little pocket to put a penny in.

If you havent got a penny, a ha' penny will do.

If you havent got a ha' penny then God bless you.

A soul, a soul cake...

Now to the lord sing praises all you within this place,

And with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace..

This holy tide of christmas of beauty and of grace,

Oh tidings of comfort and joy.

A soul, a soul cake...

TRADUZIONE

Anima, Anima, una torta dellanima!
Io ti prego, Buona signora, una torta dellanima!
Con mele, pere, susine, ciliege
Qualcosa di buono per renderci tutti più allegri

Anima, Anima, una torta dellanima!
Io ti prego, Buona signora, una torta dellanima!
Una per Pietro, due per Paolo, e tre per Colui che ci ha fatto tutti.

Anima, Anima, una torta dellanima!
Io ti prego, Buona signora, una torta dellanima!
Con mele, pere, susine, ciliege
Qualcosa di buono per renderci tutti più allegri

Dio benedica il capo famiglia e anche sua moglie
E tutti i bambini che crescono intorno a questo focolare.
Il bestiame nella stalla ed il cane davanti la porta.
E tutti quelli che dimorano dentro i vostri cancelli.
Possiate averne 10 volte tanto.

Anima, Anim...

Vai nello scantinato e guarda cosa trovi
Se i barili non sono vuoti siamo certi che sarai generoso
E speriamo che lo sarai con le tue mele e fragole
Poichè non ci rivedrai che tra un anno

Anima, Anima, una torta dellanima...

Le strade son molto sporche e le mie scarpe molto sottili.

Ho una piccola tasca dove metterci un penny.
Se non hai un penny, a ha un penny è quel che serve

Se non hai un penny Dio ti benedirà.
Anima, Anima, una torta dellanima...

Ora cantate preghiere al signore, tutti in questo luogo

E il con vero amore e fratellanza abbracciatevi l'un l'altro

Questo santo periodo natalizio di bellezza e grazia

Oh novelle di conforto e gioia!

NdR Una Soul Cake è una piccola torta rotonda che, tradizionalmente, veniva offerta per le anime dei morti. 
La tradizione ha origine in Irlanda e Gran Bretagna durante il Medio Evo, e ci sono pratiche analoghe anche in sud Italia. Le torte, spesso chiamate ANIME, sono consegnate ai soulers, ovvero bambini che vanno di porta in porta il giorno di Ognissanti cantando e dicendo preghiere per i defunti. Ogni torta mangiata rappresenterebbe un'anima che viene liberata dal Purgatorio. La pratica di dare e di mangiare dolci è spesso vista come origine della moderna Trick or Treating(Dolcetto o Scherzetto). Le torte sono generalmente riempite con noce moscata, cannella, o altre spezie dolci, uvetta o ribes.

Comments

6 years ago

Ravi Benjamin

Superb.....will be a family Christmas staple...So talented..

8 years ago

Marie-Hélène Besse

une chanson éternelle aux accents celtiques !!!

8 years ago

Marie-Hélène Besse

quelle belle chanson , pas comprise forcément ... STING !!!

9 years ago

Andrew Flood

i love this song !!!!!!

10 years ago

Sparkina

Gordon is a very talented fellow

10 years ago

go min nam shuma

soul cake hahaha .. what a funny song

10 years ago

jon preuss

doesn't even come close to peter paul and mary's soulful verson. god bless and god rest ye, mary travers

10 years ago

VOLITIONSPARK

Celtic Botan, I agree.  I once heard a classical version of this in the car, with my mother, as a teen in the 1980s.  I have been trying to find that version for years.

10 years ago

Celtic Botan's Digital Art

I didn't know it was a folk / public domain song, it makes sense. But still, I stand what I said before, people complaining about this version clearly don't know what bad music / musicians are...

10 years ago

gram smith

Poor Sting.He was great with the Police,then lost his voice at the reunion gig & cancelled the tour.

11 years ago

jasonpp1973

the real name of this tune is A Soalin'

11 years ago

Trinder3467

I bet a soul cake consists a cherry in it.

11 years ago

Celtic Botan's Digital Art

..... also, this song is not a stand-alone; the whole album where it came from has a context - the arabian / medieval feeling, choir and rare instruments aren't there 'just because'.

11 years ago

Celtic Botan's Digital Art

I see complainings about this version - well, I knew Peter, Paul and Mary's version waaaay before Sting recorded it and I really love both versions for they convey different emotions - which is supposed to happen, they are completely different musicians and that's OK. Also, I don't know if the user did this so YT can't remove it or if something happening on the making, but the song here is clearly altered; it seems it was toned down. So yes, the song doesn't sound like this originally.

11 years ago

pimpastata

Quasi meglio della Nutella!

11 years ago

pimpastata

Come non condividere? ;)

11 years ago

smartalek180

May I humbly & respectfully (no snark) point out that -- unlike, say, "Puff the Magic Dragon" -- they didn't write this song? (It reliably dates to at least the late 19th c, and is probably far, far older than that.) Are you suggesting that any song they ever covered becomes "a Peter, Paul, and Mary song," and thus becomes untouchable to any other performer?

11 years ago

Western Echidna

Sting is one of the best musical artists i have ever heard. such an amazing voice with such beautiful music

11 years ago

juliaagordon

Beautiful!!!

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