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“Sarasvati” (Song, “52 Makeup” Week 9)

“Sarasvati” (Song, “52 Makeup” Week 9)

Last updated on: March 12, 2017 at 8:46 pm by Tom Swiss

“Sarasvati” (Song, “52 Makeup” Week 9) 2017-03-12T20:46:17-04:00 Tom Swiss

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So for various reasons I’m about a week behind in posting this, the ninth entry in my 52 Makeup Challenge. But please take my word that the creativity isn’t behind schedule, that I wrote this song last Sunday; just the posting is late. Also I can’t seem to get YouTube to change the thumbnail of this video to a frame where I have a less goofy expression; so it goes.

This is the first time I’ve written anything along the lines of a chant or hymn to a deity. I could go on about Sarasvati and her Japanese avatar Benzaiten, but I should probably just let the song speak for itself — or fail to do so, as you may judge.

Sarasvati

Hey hey Sarasvati
Lady of All That Flows
We come to you like a river comes to the sea
Healing power that a Goddess knows

Rock and Roll Goddess by the side of the river
Source of all eloquence
Mother of knowledge and the wife of wisdom
We sing praises to your blessedness

Hey hey Sarasvati
Lady of All That Flows
We come to you like a river comes to the sea
Healing power that a Goddess knows

Yours are all the forms of learning
Yours the ways of harmony
Yours all the writings of the poets and the scholars
Help us to sing perfectly

Hey hey Sarasvati
Lady of All That Flows
We come to you like a river comes to the sea
Healing power that a Goddess knows

Rock and Roll Goddess by the side of the river
Source of all eloquence
Mother of knowledge and the wife of wisdom
We sing praises to your blessedness

Hey hey Sarasvati
Lady of All That Flows
We come to you like a river comes to the sea
Healing power that a Goddess knows

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