Amazing Grace in Cherokee

This was lovely, LittleDove…….  Thank you for sharing it with us here - a wonderful restful song of peace at the end of a long day……  Blessings,  Gem ~ :-) ~

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I was gonna post this, you beat me to it!

what a beautiful way to start my day! - thank you:)

I posted twice here yesterday but it kept disappearing! I wanted to thank you Little dove, for posting a video whose visuals are as musical as the harmony.

A very beautiful and spiritual  video, much appreciated, thank you Little Dove.

thanks so much for posting this, littledove.  i was overwhelmed by the beauty!

This was absolutely wonderful.  I too am a member of the Cherokee.  My grand mother is full blood.  It truly seems that yoiu have found 'RED ROAD'

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Thank you, LittleDove, for all you bring to this site. This one gave me great comfort tonight and peace. I had to place my mother in a nursing home today for her own good and mine. I will visit her there often and look after her, but it was a hard thing to do. This video and song comforted me. Lynda

This song has always touched me, and to hear in Cherokee with such a beautiful video is indeed a blessing. I will be replaying it many times I am sure. Thank you for sharing

Thanks, I have goose bumps all over! Absolutly beautiful!!!

The Cherokee lyrics are completely different from the English, but just as meaningful. We still call it “Amazing Grace” when speaking English.

Songs are so helpful to learn a language. I teach this and two others to my first-year Cherokee students as “The Trail of Tears Greatest Hits!” **   

This was, and is, our funeral song. By the end of the Removal, with funerals every day, it was the song that everybody knew by heart. It became our national anthem.

So while most nations have anthems telling you how wonderful they are or how courageous, or how beautiful their land is,  our anthem is our funeral song, to remind us of all of those  who we lost, and with whom we will be re-united someday.

I live and work on the Trail of Tears. It's never far from our thoughts.

nvwatohiyada, healing and peace to you all.

** the other two are “One Drop of Blood” and “Guide Us, Great Jehovah.”

Brian Wilkes
Marion, Kentucky

u ne la nv i u we tsi
God's Soni ga gu yv he i
paid for us.hna quo tso sv wi yu lo se
Now to heaven He wenti ga gu yv ho nv
after paying for us.a se no i u ne tse i
Then He spokei yu no du le nv
when He rose.ta li ne dv tsi lu tsi li
I'll come the second timeu dv ne u ne tsv
He said when He spoke.e lo ni gv ni li s qua di
All the world will endga lu tsv ha i yu
when He returnsni ga di da ye di go i
We will all see Hima ni e lo ni gv
here the world over.u na da nv ti a ne hv
The righteous who livedo da ya nv hi li
He will come after.tso sv hna quo ni go hi lv
In heaven now alwaysdo hi wa ne he s di
in peace they will live.