please clarify the lyric -- "with somebody who ___"?

GROUND WITH SOMEBODY
(tune of Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston) 
As I sit with the ritual of grieving embodied white supremacy I feel so much anger, sorrow and heaviness. I wanted to bring in a song that would be a shapeshifter of energy - a tool to be used to make people feel silly and giggle and remember their inherent goodness and also their collective capacity to coregulate their nervous systems. 

lyrics:
Ohhhh, I wanna ground with somebody
I wanna feel HERE in my body
Ohhhh, I wanna ground with somebody
With somebody who’ll ANCHOR - ME!

to hear more community songs by ahlay, visit: https://www.alexandrablakely.com/songlibrary

Ground With Somebody

TOGETHER WE REMEMBER
Guidelines for our workings together inspired by Rain Crowe’s temple tending

lyrics:
No one knows everything and together we remember a lot

to hear more community songs by ahlay, visit: https://www.alexandrablakely.com/songlibrary

Together We Remember

OH LAND
This song came through me as I was wanting to honor and have an embodied experience of my connection to land and the work I am committed to doing in my lifetime. You can sing the verses as an echo or you can have the group hummmmmmm for the verse and have a different person sing each verse (which is what we did). We have also just taught one verse with the chorus and sung it repeatedly. I believe the most potent verse for a land acknowledgement is "oh land, i know, the history here is painful, oh land, you know, your healing’s woven with the peoples"

lyrics:
oh land, upon which i stand - holding me 
i thank you - for all that you hold me through 
i lean back into you, rejuvenate my body anew 
oh land, upon which i stand - holding me 
i feel the gravity, where you meet my feet 
i can hear your heart beat - if i listen carefully 
oh land, upon which i stand - holding me 
oh land, i know, the history here is painful 
oh land, you know, your healing’s woven with the peoples 
oh land, upon which i stand - holding me 
oh Land, we’re here to see the grief and rage and suffering 
take these hearts as offerings, massage you with our feet as we sing 
oh land, upon which i stand - holding me

to hear more community songs by ahlay, visit: https://www.alexandrablakely.com/songlibrary

Oh Land (Land Acknowledgement Song)

Teaching tracks for community singing.

For the full story of how this song came to be, visit https://www.julianamurphy.com/blog/2021/9/26/be-safe-my-love

Lyrics:

Be safe, my love
Be well, my dear one
Live in joy and peace, my sweet friend

For we are here
We are awakened
Fear no more, and take your rest

Composed by Juliana Murphy
Lyrics inspired by Diana, Herself by Martha Beck
Melody inspired by “Katie Dear” (Traditional)

This song is intended to be shared freely and sung both individually and in community. If you plan to record it with the intent to sell, please contact me for permission.

Be Safe, My Love - All Parts

The melody for this song came to me in early 2017 but it wasn’t until I shared it with several songleading colleagues in one big epic improvisation at Village Fire 2018 that it came into its fullness. This song odyssey co-creation honors our ancestors and everything that has come before so we can be here now, weaving our hands into our world.

Original song by Lisa G. Littlebird. (Great thanks to many of the harmony lines that were born of the creative genius of Aimee Ringle, Te Martin, Josh Blaine, Laurence Cole & Annie Zylstra, among others.) ©Lisa G. Littlebird 2018

For lyrics, individual part tracks and more, visit: http://thebirdsings.com/we-are-the-love/

We Are The Love That Came Before Us

A song for these uncertain times. Inspired by one of Joanna Macy's talks at a Bioneers Conference.

© Heather Houston
All rights reserved

To learn the individual parts to this song, please visit my Public Song Library:
https://heatherhoustonmusic.com/sisters-in-harmony-song-library/

Lyrics:
And we will care for each other
As the world around us unravels
And we will tend to the spark
of hope that lives within our grieving hearts
And we are here now, in this present moment
Lifting our voices and hearts
And we are here now, we have come together
We are tending the spark hope
Oh may it grow
And we will care for each other

Tending the Spark by Heather Houston

This Fire

Original song by Annie Zylstra, arrangement by Lisa G. Littlebird.

Blessed Motion by Annie Zylstra - All Parts

unistoten.camp/about/wetsuweten-people/

Courage is not the absence of fear
It is the feeling of this fear
Being afraid and standing up anyway

"Courage" sung for Wet’suwet’en

Let it Unfold

Love Don't Worry, 
Love Don't Worry, 
Perfect Love Casts out Fear 

inspired by 1 John 4:18 from somewhere deep in my childhood Bible brain ...." There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. "

Caught 2008ish? The melody is one I wrapped myself in to traverse the dark four flights of the mostly abandoned Lemp warehouses in STL to get to my art studio safely.   I was learning by doing, casting a circle, song medicine.  The echoes made everything epic. 

Here I am teaching it to the circle at Village Fire 2014, first ever call-and-response song leading. I burst out crying laughing when they sang the first line back. Total coming home moment.

pic: move in day at that studio?

Love, Don't Worry (Perfect Love Casts out Fear) <village fire remixX>

Alexandra “ahlay” Blakely is a descendent of Ashkenazi, Scandinavian and British folk. She is a singer-songwriter, grief tender, community organizer, facilitator and ceramicist walking the path of ancestral healing and the reclaiming of lost cultural memories. Her community singing album, Spells from the Unknown encapsulates songs for the community to transform, ask questions, and seek to lead lives that might make us ancestors worth honoring. Her upcoming 2024 community singing album, WAILS: Songs for Grief was recorded in July 2023 with a choir of 200 voices. The album is completely dedicated to grief, inspired by the Whales and Frances Weller’s “the five gates of grief.”

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