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Now and For All Time

by The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus

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1.
Javi Bar 02:22
Ja, vi elsker dette landet, som det stiger frem, furet, værbitt over vannet, med de tusen hjem, — elsker, elsker det og tenker på vår far og mor og den saganatt som senker drømmer på vår jord. Og den saganatt som senker, senker drømmer på vår jord. 'Twas a cold winter's evening The guests were all leaving O'Leary was closing the bar When he turned and he said to the lady in red "Get you you can't stay where you are!" Oh, she shed a sad tear in her bucket of beer And thought of the cold night ahead When a gentleman dapper Stepped out of the...lavatory... And these were the words that he said, these were the words that he said: Her mother never told her The things a young girl should know About the ways of college men And how they come and go ...mostly go Now age has taken away her beauty And sin has left it sad scar So remember your mothers And sisters boys And let her sleep under the bar.
2.
Stoney End 03:12
I was born from love and my poor mother worked the mine I was raised on the good book Jesus Until I read between the lines Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning Going down the stoney end I never wanted to go down the stoney end Mama, let me start all over Cradle me, mama, cradle me again I can still remember her with love light in her eyes But that light flickered out and faltered When the sun began to rise Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning Going down the stoney end I never wanted to go down the stoney end Mama, let me start all over Cradle me, mama, cradle me again Never mind the forecast 'Cause the sky has lost control 'Cause the fury and broken thunder's Come to match my raging soul Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning. No, never mind the forescast. Because the sky has lost, yeah the sky has lost yeah the sky has lost control You know you gotta match my ragin' soul I never wanted to go— goin' down the stoney end Cradle me, my mama cradle me. Again. And again. And again, and again, and again! Woah, oh I'm goin' down the stoney end!
3.
Turn down the lights Turn down the bed Turn down these voices inside my head Lay down with me Tell me no lies Just hold me close, don't patronize me Don't patronize me I can't make you love me if you don't You can't make your heart feel something it won't Here in the dark, in these final hours I will lay down my heart; I'll feel the power But you won't, no you won't 'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't I'll close my eyes, then I won't see The love you don't feel when you're holding me Morning will come and I'll do what's right Just give me till then to give up this fight And I will give up this fight 'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't You can't make your heart feel something it won't Here in the dark, in these final hours I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power But you won't, no you won't 'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't (I can't make you) if you don't.
4.
[Soloist] When I was a little boy And the Devil would call my name I'd say "now who do ... Who do you think you're fooling?" Now, I'm a consecrated boy Singer in a Sunday choir Ooh, my mama loves, she love me She gets down on her knees and hugs me She love me like a rock She rocks me like the rock of ages And loves me She love me, love me, love me, love me Now I'm grown to be a man And the Devil would call my name And he'd say "now who do . .. Who do you think you're fooling?" Now I'm a consummated man Snatch a little purity My mama loves me, she love me She gets down on her knees and hugs me She love me like a rock She rocks me like the rock of ages and loves me She love me, love me, love me, love me [Shoe] And if I was the President The minute that Congress call my name "Who do ... Who do you think you're fooling?" I've got the Presidential Seal I'm up on the Presidential Podium My mama loves me Yeah, she loves me like a... [Soloist] She gets down on her knees and hugs me Yeah she loves me like a rock She love me like the rock of ages And loves me She love me, love me, love me, love me She love me, love me, love me, love me She love me, love me, love me, love me [Shoe] She loves me like a rock!
5.
MLK 02:43
Sleep Sleep tonight And may your dreams Be realized If the thundercloud Passes rain So let it rain Rain down on him Mmm, so let it be Mmm, so let it be Sleep Sleep tonight And may your dreams Be realized If the thundercloud Passes rain So let it rain Let it rain Rain on him
6.
Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out, yeah! I'm floating around in ecstasy So don't stop me now Don't stop me 'Cause I'm having a good time I'm having a good time I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva I wanna go go go There's no stopping me I'm burning through the sky yeah! Two hundred degrees That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit I'm trav'ling at the speed of light And I wanna make a supersonic man out of you Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time I'm having a ball Don't stop me now If you wanna have a good time Just give me a call Don't stop me now Don't stop me now I don't want to stop at all... Yeah, I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars On a collision course I am a satellite I'm out of control I am a sex machine ready to reload Like an atom bomb about to Oh oh oh oh oh explode I'm burning through the sky Yeah! Two hundred degrees That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit I'm trav'ling at the speed of light I wanna make a supersonic woman of you Don't stop me Don't stop me Don't stop me Hey hey hey! Don't stop me Don't stop me Ooh ooh ooh (I like it) Don't stop me Don't stop me Have a good time, good time Don't stop me Don't stop me I'm burning through the sky yeah! Two hundred degrees That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit I'm trav'ling at the speed of light I wanna make a supersonic man out of you Don't stop me now Cuz I'm having such a good time I'm having a ball Don't stop me now If you wanna have a good time Just give me a call Don't stop me now ('cause I'm having a good time) Don't stop me now (yes I'm having a good time) I don't wanna stop at all Tonight, I'm gonna have myself a real good time I feel alive! So alive! Oooooh!
7.
[Shoe] Don't have much to live for Nothin's gonna come my way [Soloist] Sittin' in the morning sun I'll be sittin' when the evening comes Watching the ships roll in And I watch 'em roll away again, yeah Oh, I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tide roll away, Sittin' on the dock of the bay Wastin' time [Shoe] Hmmm [Soloist] Well, I left my home in Georgia Headed for that Frisco Bay I don't have too much to love for I know nothing's gonna come my way Oh, I'm just gon' sit on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay Wastin' time Well it looks like nothing's gonna change Everything still remains the same I can't do what ten people tell me to do So I guess I'll just remain the same Sittin' here resting my bones And this loneliness won't leave me alone, Two thousand miles I roam Just to make this dock my home, Sittin on the dock of a bay I'm watchin' the tide roll away, ooh Sittin' on the dock of the bay Wastin' time Wastin' time
8.
Hallelujah 03:48
Hallelujah Hallelujah Ah, Hallelujah Hallelujah Well I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya? Well it goes like this: The fourth to the fifth, the minor fall to the major lift The baffled king composin' Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya Well she tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Well, maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot someone who outdrew ya Well, it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Oh, hallelujah Hallelujah
9.
My Girl 02:55
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it's cold outside I've got the month of May. Well, I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? My girl (my girl, my girl, my girl) Talkin' 'bout my girl (talkin' 'bout my girl). I've don't need no honey the bees envy me. I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees. Well, I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? My girl (my girl, my girl, my girl) Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl). And hey girl, I want you to know I'm gonna miss you so much if you go And hey girl, When you're by my side Somethin' inside of my heart is alive And I know why... (Fin'ly I know why!) I don't need no honey The bees envy me I've got a sweeter song, than the birds in the trees Well, I guess you'd say what can make me feel this way? My girl. I'm talkin' 'bout my girl (talkin' 'bout my girl) Talkin' 'bout my girl.
10.
Right from the start I said "Hello, Mary Lou" Goodbye heart Now baby, Passed me by one sunny day Flashed those big brown eyes my way And oh I wanted you forever more (oh baby) I'm not one that gets around Swear my feet stuck to the ground And though I never did meet you before I said "Hello Mary Lou Goodbye heart (I said) Sweet Mary Lou I'm so in love with you (I'm in love with Mary Lou) I knew Mary Lou (That we'd) We'd never part So Hello Mary Lou Goodbye heart" Saw your lips I heard your voice Believe me I just had no choice Wild horses couldn't make me stay away Thought about a moonlit night Arms about good an' tight That's all I need to see for me to say Hey, hey "Hello Mary Lou Goodbye heart Sweet Mary Lou I'm so in love with you (I'm in love with Mary Lou) I knew Mary Lou (We'd never part) We'd never part So Hello Mary Lou Goodbye heart, goodbye heart Hello Mary Lou I'm in love with you, yes Hello Mary Lou Goodbye heart Right from the start I said Hello, Mary Lou Goodbye heart Goodbye heart
11.
Old Songs 03:51
Way down upon the Swannee River They had a special kind of song to help them push the work along they hummed it to the rhythm of the old heave ho and don't ya know there's somethin' happn'in when they're singin' to the snappin' of the Chattanooga shoeshine boy. They never got far past the rhythm— they brought it with 'em. [Shoe] There was the birth of the blues! [Underwood] Charleston, Charleston Just think what the world was then Jazzy, snazzy, they were... [Shoe] Singin' to the swinger in a big bop band. [Lee] I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair [Shoe] And there's no place like home. [Prince] I mean I been wandrin' high and low to find a good old record, a good old record I can dig to hear But it seems these days, they just don't make 'em! [Lee] Some folk break 'em just to spite me. [Prince] Oo! They've taken my memory lane and made it a six lane freeway tellin' me [Shoe] Baby there's two ways to fly! Well, I know when I'm beat, so I'll get back on my feet. I'm goin' where I'm better known! I need those... Old Songs! Old Songs! [Morris] I hop from bar to bar I wander near and far for [Shoe] Old Songs! Solid gold songs! [Morris] They take me back aways Back to my younger days with those old songs [Acuña] You and I are older now and very far apart Still it's true the thought of you does strange things to my heart All the songs 're made today They've got the newer loves in mind But baby as long as I can still hear those old songs of yesteryear I'll get along just fine I wanna hear those [Shoe] Old songs! Old songs! [Morris] I mean a melody That wakes a memory of those old songs. [Sveshnikov] Now brother you ain't gonna tell me you like new songs better than tried and true songs I know that I never no never had one of them yet put a smile on my face I know that I never no never had one of 'em yet that could give me a case of those low down and dirties [Shoe] When the blue of the night Meets the gold of the day [Sveshnikov] Uh-huh! Now they're the songs that say the things that I wanna say They mean a— ooh! they really got to me when I was younger [May] 'Cuz honey You and I, you know we're gettin' older ev'ry day We're so far away that without you each day just a-thinking and a-dreaming 'bout you this way does strange things to my heart All the songs 're made today, they've gotta the newer loves in mind But baby as long as I can still hear those old songs of yesteryear, I'm just fine I wanna hear those [May/Enin] Old Songs Old Songs! They take me back away! / Now all the songs I wanna hear are happy songs Into my younger days and! / I can't get along without you and... [Shoe] O-wo-wo-wold songs Solid go-wo-wo-wold songs I mean a melody [May] Yes indeed! [Shoe] Nothin' means as much to me Do wah!
12.
Nude 04:11
[Soloist] Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen You paint yourself white And swim over noise There'll be something missing Now that you found it It's gone Now that you feel it You don't Gone off the rails So don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinkin'
13.
[Maas] When John Henry was a little baby He was a-sittin' on his Daddy's knee Well he picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel and he said [Shoe] Hammer be the death of me, lord lord Oh, hammer be the death of me [Hosmer-Quint/May] Well John Henry He could hammer He could whistle and he could sing And all the people they would come out, early in the mornin' just to hear John Henry's hammer ring lord lord, I tell ya John Henry's hammer ring [Shoe] One day the captain said to John Henry I'm gonna bring me a steam drill round I'm gonna bring me a steam drill right out on the job, I'm gonna... [Shepperd] Well John Henry said to the captain lord, a man ain't nothin but a man But before I let your steam drill bring me down I'm gonna die! Lord lord, I'll die with my hammer in my hand! [Shoe] Now the man who invented the steam drill Well he thought he was mighty fine but for every fifteen that John Henry hammered in you know the steam drill only drove in nine the steam drill only drove in nine John Henry drove into the mountain and his hammer was strikin' fire Well he drove so... [Youssef] Hard! He broke his poor heart. [Enin] And then he laid down his hammer and he died, lord lord. He laid down his hammer and he died. [Motet] And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died And he died [Maas] Well, they took John Henry to the graveyard And they buried him in the sand Now ev'ry locomotive comes a roarin' by says [Shoe] There lies a steel drivin' man lord lord I tell ya there lies a steel drivin' man Yeah they took John Henry to the graveyard and they buried him in the sand Now ev'ry locomotive comes a roarin' by says there lies a steel drivin' man (He was a steel drivin' man, he was a steel drivin' man!)
14.
Pretty Girl 02:31
If you want to see a girl that's pretty, pretty as the stars that shine, then come with me some evenin', and I'll show that old girl of mine. She sleeps on a bed of roses, dreamin' of the days gone by, when she and I were sweethearts, underneath the starlit sky. [Speech] Aloha ladies, gentlemen, non-terrestrial lifeforms, and 400-pound pigs named Oink, For the greater part of the foregoing fortnight, you’ve had your appetence for aural amusement requited by the irrefragably illustrious intoning and vociferant vagary of the SOBs, the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, livestreaming to you directly from that hotbed of diversity, Yale University, where particular pagans palaver. If you’ve felt insulted, affronted, set off, infected, indicted, culturally educated, offended or otherwise alienated by our insulse inanities, we earnestly, indifferently apologize. But for those of you who’ve enjoyed the program, run straight home, tear the top off your radio, and air mail it to The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus care of Manuscript Arts and Letters Society, and we’ll send you two life-size glow-in-the-dark statues of orpheus and bacchus. The darker it gets, the brighter they glow. Until then, May the Gods Be With You. [Shoe] When she and I were sweethearts (sweethearts), underneath the starlit sky! (We were underneath the sky!)
15.
Now, I don't usually partake in such activities, but allow me to tickle then I eardrum with a portion of my recomposition. No I'm not... tryna be rude, But hey pretty girl I'm feeling you The way you do the things you do Reminds me of my Lexus coupe That's why I'm all up in your grill Tryina get you to a hotel You must be a football coach The way you got me playing the field So baby gimme that...toot toot And emme give you that...beep beep Running her hands through my 'fro Bouncing on 24's While they say on the radio... It's the remix! It's the remix to ignition Hot and fresh out the kitchen Mama rolling that body got every man in here wishing We sippin' on coke and rum I'm like so what I'm drunk It's the freaking weekend baby I'm about to have me some fun Have me some fun! Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, we love to bounce! Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, we love to bounce! Now it's like... Murder she wrote Once I get you out them clothes Privacy is on the door Still they can hear you screamin' more That's why I'm feeling what you feeling No more hoping and a-wishing I'm bout to take my key and Stick it in the ignition So baby gimme that...toot toot Lemme give you that...beep beep Running her hands through my 'fro Bouncing on 24's While they say on the radio... It's still the remix! It's the remix to ignition Hot and fresh out the kitchen Mama rolling that body Got every man in here wishing We sippin' on coke and rum I'm like so what I'm drunk It's the freaking weekend baby I'm about to have me some fun Have me some fun! [Tag] Have me some fun! Have me some fun! Gonna have some fun!

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On a brisk fall day in the late 1930s, a ragtag group of Yale men assembled after Glee Club rehearsal, their thirst for music unquenched and their appetite for revelry unsatisfied. Together, they set out to form a singing group founded in friendship and fueled by passion. They called it the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus. In the 75 years that have followed, the Society’s pantheon has welcomed more than 450 lifetime members. "Now and For All Time" is a gift from the 22 singers who today inherit their title, share their legacy, and maintain their tradition. It is a reminder of the fleeting richness of the present. It is a reflection on a future soon to be past. It is a celebration of the intimate infinity of time itself.

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released October 27, 2015

Album Musical Director: Douglas Streat '16
Album Producer: Aaron Effron '15
Album Art: Max Pommier '14

Tracking: Noah Berg of Liquid 5th Productions and Douglas Streat '16
Editing: Ben Lieberman and Josh Heilbronner of Liquid 5th Productions
Mixing: by Carl Taylor of Liquid 5th Productions
Mastering: Eric Scholz

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Founded in 1938, the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus is the second longest-running a cappella group in the United States, after the Yale Whiffenpoofs. Initially, the group went without a name until they capitalized on a backhanded compliment received at a party—“These SOBs are good!”— invoking the talents of Orpheus, minstrel to Olympus, and the legacy of Bacchus, god of revelry, to form the SOBs. ... more

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