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| ©smck 27 September 2013 |
Chants and Cantor
At a lonely monastery on a small off-shore island of
Australia the monks honored the breaking day every morning by gathering in the
great hall where the head monk would stand before them and chant
“Good mo-or-ning”
and the monks would in turn chant
“Good mo-or-ning”
Then in the dusk of the evening they would again gather and
the head monk would chant
“Good ev-en-ing”
and so too the monks in turn would chant
“Good ev-en-ing”
On one morning when a newly arrived monk from around the
world arrived and joined in the morning chant, evidently jet-lag affected him for he
inadvertently chanted “Good ev-en-ing” in return. The head monk without pause cantorially chanted
♫
“Some one chant-ed ev-en-ing”
to the well known tune from the musical “South Pacific”.
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