The late fall season is upon us. The last bit of crops have been brought in, I've been busily winterizing my house in preparation for the deep cold of winter, and there is a sense of the world dying as it turns towards darkness. As is typical for modern pagan types, this leads to a focus in this season on our beloved dead, as often expressed through a tradition of reading the names of those who are close to the membership who have passed in the last year. This led to me thinking about the phenomenon of how much you learn about somebody at their memorial service, in whatever form it takes, because the piece of them you knew always leaves out a lot of their story.
Musically, this is intentionally fairly simple. The verse runs on a chordal pattern known as the "descending fifths sequence", but beyond that there's nothing particularly unusual going on. While the verses were written about people I know that have passed, I would be delighted if others decided to take this and run with it enough to add verses for others who they know who are now gone.
All works are copyright by yours truly, but may be distributed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0. That means, in short, you can use them yourself and your grove, and play the song to your heart's content both in private and in public, but must give credit where credit is due, and if you're planning on selling something involving this song we need to talk about that first.
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