Light One Candle

"Light One Candle"
Song by Peter, Paul and Mary
from the album No Easy Walk to Freedom
PublishedDecember 11, 1982 (1982-12-11)
Released1986
GenreFolk
Length3:04
LabelGold Castle
Songwriter(s)Peter Yarrow

"Light One Candle" is a song by the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. It is a popular Hanukkah song. Peter, Paul, and Mary performed the song in concerts starting in 1982, before recording it for their 1986 studio album No Easy Walk to Freedom.

The lyrics commemorate the war of national liberation fought by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Greek empire from 167 to 141 BCE, a war described in the Books of the Maccabees and commemorated by the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

History

The first performance of the song was at a 1982 concert in Carnegie Hall.[1]

The song was written in 1982[2] by group member Peter Yarrow as a pacifist response to the 1982 Lebanon War, an intention was reflected in the lyrics "Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand, Light one candle for the wisdom to know when the peacemaker's time is at hand."[3][1]

In 1983, when the trio performed the song at an outdoor concert in Jerusalem in a country torn over the Lebanon War, they added lyrics to address the political complexities faced by their audience: "Light one candle for the strength that we need to never become our own foe. Light one candle for those who are suffering, pain we learned so long ago. Light one candle for all we believe in, let anger not tear us apart. Light one candle to bind us together with peace as the song in our heart..."[3] When they repeated the chorus "Don't let the light go out, It's lasted for so many years. Don't let the light go out, Let it shine through our love and our tears," the politically mixed audience cheered.[3]

Critic Andrew Silow-Carroll dismisses the lyrics, "Light one candle for the Maccabee children / With thanks their light didn’t die; / Light one candle for the pain they endured / When their right to exist was denied," as a boringly didactic history lesson.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Chisvin, Sharon (9 December 2017). "Hearing the sweet sounds of peace". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Copyright Catalog (1978 to present): Light one candle / words and music by Peter Yarrow". cocatalog.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Rubin, Trudy (24 June 1983). "Peter, Paul and Mary bring a song for peace to a divided Israel". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  4. ^ Silow-Carroll, Andrew (3 December 2018). "I'm dreaming of a Hanukkah song as good as 'White Christmas'". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 25 December 2018.


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