Who is at my window, who? - Anonymous

Translated into ASL by David Bar-Tzur

Created 7 April 2006, links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm.

EXPLANATION OF THE GLOSSING SYSTEM
(to understand how I describe the signs in this translation).

GOD IN HEAVEN LOOK-DOWN ASK-below: (Role play God) WHO KNOCK MY WINDOW WANT ENTER, WHO? SHOO! MY WINDOW, SHOO! WHICH STRANGER CALL"each"? SHOO! MY WINDOW, SHOO!

(Role play supplicant) LORD, ME HERE, PITY-ON-me HUMAN, DIE MUST. ME CALL"each" FOR-FOR? REALLY-WANT YOU-lf,hi HAVE-MERCY-ON-me. YOURSELF-lf,hi LORD RULE HEAVEN. LOOK-AT-me ME KNOCK++ YOUR WINDOW.

(Role play God to end) REMEMBER YOUR SIN AND HOW YOU THINK. PLUS HOW ME GIVE-UP MY LIFE FOR YOU. REMEMBER THRUST-SPEAR PIERCE-SIDE, THEN ENTER MY DOOR CAN.

ME NOT REQUIRE MUCH FOR YOU-lf,lo ENTER. JUST LOVE LIKE ME FINISH LOVE. YOUR-lf,lo HEART GIVE-HEART-TO-me ME. THAT'S-ALL ME ASK. THEN ENTER MY DOOR CAN.

WHO KNOCK++ MY WINDOW WANT ENTER, WHO? SHOO! MY WINDOW, SHOO! DON'T STAND"over time" CRY"over time" LIKE STRANGER. COME-ON ENTER MY DOOR, COME-ON.


Notes: SHOO! - (2h)[B^], POs down, FOs > thing being shooed away, hands bend at wrist and then straighten to (2h)[B] as if shooing something away.

ME - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.

HAVE-MERCY-ON-me - (2h)[open 8], POs > signer, hands move in vertical circles normal (perpendicular) to the chest. For a QuickTime file of this sign, see ASL Pro: Mercy - 2.

SIN - (2h)[X] touch their respective sides of the mouth, descend to neutral space and circle antisymmetrically parallel to the chest. For an animated gif of this sign, see Animated dictionary of religious signs - Deaf Missions: Sin.

THRUST-SPEAR - Turn to the left and role play thrusting a spear to the left.

PIERCE-SIDE - Turn to the right and role play receiving a spear into the side.

THAT'S-ALL - FINISH with the mouthing "that's all".

Lyrics:

Who is at my window? Who? Who?
Go from my window! Go! Go!
Who calls there, like a stranger?
Go from my window! Go!

--Lord, I am here, a wretched mortal,
That for Thy mercy doth cry and plead
Unto Thee, my Lord celestial,
'Tis me at Thy window, me--

Remember thy sin. Remember thy sort.
And also for thee remember my part,
Remember the spear that sundered my heart,
And in at my Door thou shalt go.

I ask no thing of thee therefore,
But love for love, to lay in store.
Give me thy heart; I ask no more,
And in at my Door thou shalt go.

Who is at my window? Who?
Go from my window! Go!
Cry no more there, like a stranger,
But in at my Door thou go!

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