Singing "Ultreia" on el camino

[sillydoll]

The lovely French pilgrim song 'Ultreia' is often sung at communal dinners on the camino. This website has the music and words in different languages.

http://elcaminosantiago.com/PDF/Ultreia.pdf

 

[Artemis]

I first heard this song in a bar walking into Santiago. It was being sung by a French couple who were nice enough to translate it to English for me. We were all celebrating with a bit of wine and between the wine, the song and the excitement of finally reaching Santiago the experience was very special for me. I saw them again in the pilgrims office still singing and also out in front of the cathedral and they were still singing...... I sang along as well as I could trying to say the same French words they were singing. God only knows what I was really singing but it didn't matter it was still wonderful.