bn_songbook | Saraswati

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of wisdom, learning, and the arts.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen

/ G Em G Em / C D G D / G CD Em C / D - Em - /

She said there was a sacred sound

That echoed all the worlds around

The seed of all the music that She taught me

The major lift, the minor fall

One syllable enfolds them all

And lingers on the lips of Saraswati

/ C - G - / C - G D / G ... /

Saraswati, Saraswati

That syllable gave birth to more

The sacred script has fifty-four

The symbols every scribe learns how to copy

Whose wisdom guides the flowing pen?

Learn all the world can teach, and then

Learn wisdom at the feet of Saraswati

Saraswati, Saraswati

Her hands caress the stringéd lute

Her teachings bear the finest fruit

In those for whom the art is more than hobby

Her fingers dance across the strings

Directing thoughts to higher things

The lovely and the holy Saraswati

Saraswati, Saraswati

In ancient days a river ran

But it was swallowed by the sand

A goddess had the river for a body

That stream's long dry, but She lives on

The Queen of wisdom and of song

And still She keeps the name of Saraswati

Saraswati, Saraswati

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