In which I mean to play some songs about spring but get a little distracted by songs about mining, choral music, fado, a lullaby. Featuring Blaze Foley, Arvo Pärt, Fairouz, Charlie Chaplin, Jewish-Viennese composer Hermann Leopoldi and more…

I called the episode ‘Life, Oh Life,’ after the Romanian song which I play two different renditions of in this episode, but it appears a more accurate translation would be ”World, World”:

World, world, sister world

When will I have enough of you?

World, sister world

When I give up bread for Lent

And the glass will give up on me

World, sister world

Maybe then I’ll have enough of you

When they hammer the nails on my coffin

World, sister world

When they put me in my grave

And I won’t be on earth anymore

World, sister world

‘Cause that’s how the world is, transient

One is born, another dies

World, sister world

The born one suffers

The dead one rots

World, sister world

Tracklist:

1. Spring Song – Charlie Chaplin
2. Lume, Lume – Maria Tănase
3. Horila Sosna (Four Slovak folk songs) – Železiar
4. Miner’s Dream – Nora Brown
5. Bill Dooley – Paul Clayton
6. Llef – Rhos Male Voice Choir
7. Psalm 117 – Arvo Pärt, performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
8. Maria da Graça – Carlos Ramos
9. The Moonlight Song – Blaze Foley
10. Schlummerlied – Zarah Leander
11. Die Welt in hundert Jahren – Hermann Leopoldi and Betja Milskaja
12.  Za tú horú, za vysokú – Marie Freiová and Jana Hojdová
13. Bint El Shalabiya – Fairuz
14. Lume, Lume – Fanfare Ciocarlia