O Fortuna vs Excalibur

[mournblade5]

I"m looking for a song score lyrics for Trevor Jones version of O Fortuna in the 1981 movie Excalibur. There are several original versions but none containing the chorus lyrics from the movie. When you listen to both they are decided different. The original being latin old german base and the movie version is like something from American 1860s. I think I remember reading something about it being the theme song to the second coming with Abraham Lincoln in mind.

Anyway, if any of you movie/music buffs know where I can get the lyric breakdown I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[Muza]

I really have not idea. Sorry

 

[Frederik Magle]

Now there's a challenging question. I hope someone on this forum knows the answer, and I'll also take a look around and see if can find out something. In any case I just listened to the "Siege of Camylarde" track on the soundtrack album, and that is definitely the latin text being sung, but I guess it's another version featured in the film then.

 

[Fretless]

Interesting question. I've seen the movie many times and never noticed any english lyrics for O Fortuna. The soundtrack album also gives no indication of other versions.

 

[Muza]

I guess you have raised quite a question! Now we all want to know

 

[Rachmaninoff]

Hey, I never noticed this.
Who has the answer?

 

[C5Says]

I always chance upon it at my last.fm music at my blog.
Try to listen at http://c5says.com (the red box at the right side that says last.fm) which is set to classical genre. There are just quite a few so O Fortuna always come out about 5x the whole day. Couldn't understand the lyrics, though. But it's listening magnet is great!

 

[Von Hammer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

English:

O Fortune,
like the moon
you are constantly changing,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.

Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.

Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!