Merry Christmas & Happy Chanucka 2008 from Amadea! A live performance in Berlin of the Israeli folk song - Jerusalem of Gold - written by Naomi Shemer. Amadea (Contralto) is accompanied by Frederick on an authentic David's Harp, which was hand-made in Jerusalem. The David's Harp has been made in the same exact way as it would have been made 3000 years ago in the time of King David. The performance took place live in the Sankt Marien-Liebfrauen Church on December 20, 2008. Here is an English translation of the Hebrew lyrics: The mountains' air clear like wine and the smell of pines, Flies in the wind of the twilight with the voice of echoes, And in the deep sleep the tree and stone rest in a dream, The city which in life sits and its heart is within a wall. CHORUS: Jerusalem of gold and of brass and of light, There is nothing like your song, "I am a violin." We return to the cisterns of water to the market and to whatever, The Shofar calls in the mountain of houses in the old city, In the caves which are forever remembering thousands of sunsets, And again falling asleep at the sea of the Kings on the way to Jericho. CHORUS. Surely I am coming to sing to you today for you bind circles, I was made smaller from the marching of your sons and from the last of our enemies, Because your name is burning in our consciousness like the kiss of an angel, With the peacefulness of Jerusalem there will be happiness for the wholeness (completeness) of gold. CHORUS