O Water

Original

This song dropped in as a chant driving home from an acupuncture appointment in which I’d been given a Water Treatment to cool the Fire in my system. Thinking about the quiet power of water and the respect I have for her, I sang this all the way home. It was only later when I recorded it that I discovered that the 4 parts did indeed fit together – and that the top line wanted more words. The first and last verse of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Poem fit beautifully.

Low:

O Water, O Water

Middle and High:

Water, O Water

Words from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Poem The Ocean:

The Ocean has its silent caves,

Deep, quiet, and alone;

Though there be fury on the waves,

Beneath them there is none.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,

Unquiet are its graves;

But peaceful sleep is ever there,