Solomon Songs

Songs as a source of wisdom. Now there’s a thought.

In the collections of books we call the bible there is one called Song of Solomon.

That book was a written form of songs of wisdom that were sung and passed on to the Jewish people, possibly by King Solomon. He got his name on the book anyway.

Songs have probably been a way of passing on stories and ancestral history, sage wisdom and palatable life philosophy, as well as entertainment, throughout the ages. And the music wasn’t just for people of a particular age. It was for everyone.

I don’t know that we have that today. That is, we have the wisdom songs, I hear them often from performers on HomeSongs4Life, but we seem to have lost the habit of passing those songs down through the generations. There is undoubtedly a disconnect, in our western societies at least, between the music that the different generations listen to.

We’ve come to see that as natural and normal. But I’m not sure that it is.

I always envisaged Homesongs as a multi-generational thing. A place where people of all ages can come together, and listen. And, possibly even learn.

We’ve had Homesongs that are a little bit like that, but mostly it still feels like a bit of a pipe dream. It also seems to me to be more necessary than ever.