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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music Whatever maniac on Music's hits station decided that Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is a needs to be fired. Then hired, so that they can be fired all over again! It's not Christmas just because it mentions a character from the Bible one time!
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Joseph King @jdking92@dragonscave.space
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seasonal music @fastfinge This is true. That being said, it does reference samson in verse 2, even if his name wasn't actually given. But yeah, that's still not enough to classify the tune as a Christmas song.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music @jdking92 Yes, and "David played and it pleased The Lord" right in the intro.
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Joseph King @jdking92@dragonscave.space
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seasonal music @fastfinge Right. I think there's even a passing reference to Saul im there.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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seasonal music @jdking92 Well, the author was Jewish. So makes sense it would refer to the Old Testament and not the new.
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Joseph King @jdking92@dragonscave.space
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seasonal music @fastfinge Oh wow! I didn't actually know that. Thought I probably should have figured it out considering the references.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music @jdking92 And the name Leonard Cohen haha
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Joseph King @jdking92@dragonscave.space
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seasonal music @fastfinge See I wouldn't have known he was Jewish from that name.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music @jdking92 Ah, it just strikes me as stereotypically Jewish, at least in Canada.
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Joseph King @jdking92@dragonscave.space
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seasonal music @fastfinge Whenever I think of Jewish names, as odd as it is, I tend to come up with more female names than male. Rachel, Sarah, Ester, Ruth, Naomi, Etc.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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seasonal music @jdking92 I think because the female Jewish names from the Bible are more used in the modern day. Other than David, of course. But you don't encounter too many Ehud's today.
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