Slowly is the way I want to love every single voice in this recording. Awesome song!

Thank you Josh and FOV community for making this so beautiful <3

Leave Your Troubles at the Water

recorded by batya levine, molly bajgot, margot seigle, alicen roberts & george clements around a fire in JP, Boston Iyar 5776 / May 2016. 

the origins of this song are a little mysterious to me, but the farthest i could trace back is from a recording by the Rainbow family Rainbow Sprite video in August of 1997

Humble yourself inside of the fire
You gotta lay down low
Humble yourself inside of the fire
You gotta ask em what she knows

And we will lift each other up
Higher and higher
And we will lift each other up
Higher and higher

in the end, mixed with Lime Tree by Trevor Hall

a note on these lyrics: this is the version I learned and that i've heard, but i believe the original words are actually:

Humble yourself in the light of the elders
You gotta bend down low and
Humble yourself in the light of your elders
You gotta know what they know and

We shall lift each other up
Higher and higher and (chorus)
We shall lift each other up

Humble yourself in the light of your children
You gotta bend down low and
Humble yourself in the light of your children
You gota know what they know and (chorus)

Humble yourself in the light of your sisters……..
Brothers….the animals……..each other, etc.






SIVAN - Humble Yourself Inside of the Fire

Why, why worry when you can _____
Pray to/for the most high
Pray to/for the mothers and the fathers
Pray to/for the most high
Pray for them to watch over
Why, why worry when you can ____

Why Why Worry

This song was born out of John O'Donohue's poem, "For Someone Awakening to the Trauma of Her Past"; it has come through me in a season when the long buried wounds of past trauma have surfaced, inviting healing and renewal. "Only you know where the casket of pain is interred," John O'Donohue wrote. "You will have to scrape through all the layers of covering and according to your readiness, everything will open." 

May this song bring you healing, too.

Part One: 
As your tears fall over that wounded place,
may they wash away your fears and free your heart

Part Two:
I am coming home, I am coming home,
this body now, a meadow -- gentle, my love.

Awakening

A bit about the song from the song catcher:

"Written after a night of dancing ecstatically, and while contemplating my conditioning around romantic relationships. This is a song to myself, to my partner(s) and friends, to the universe, and to whoever you feel called to sing it to ❤" -Jesse French (https://soundcloud.com/yetifree)

Recorded live at a Finding Our Voice community sing in the Texas State Capitol rotunda on 1.28.2019.

Slowly (Jesse French) - Live in the Rotunda

Come Darkness Come Light - 7:2:19, 11.27 PM

Artist: Karisha Longaker of MaMuse (low harmony added later by Thrive Choir)

Sung at a (mini) song circle on December 11, 2018 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Lyrics:
We shall be known by the company we keep
By the ones who circle round to tend these fires
We shall be known by the ones who sow and reap
The seeds of change, alive from deep within the Earth

It is time now
It is time now that we thrive
It is time we lead ourselves into the well
It is time now
And what a time to be alive
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love

We Shall Be Known (MaMuse, low harmony by Thrive Choir)

Origin: a person named Molly (we aren't sure of Molly's last name!), taught it on the first night of the Let My People Sing! 2019 retreat. Molly learned it at Urban Adamah, we're not sure where it originally came from - please comment if you know! This recording is from a Let My People Sing teach-back gathering in DC, in Sept 2019

Words:
I step into the flow
And then I let it go
I open my mind, my heart and my soul (x2)

I surrender, I surrender
I surrender, I open my mind, my heart and my soul

LMPS Teach Back

Step Into the Flow

I believed in solid ground until I saw the earth in motion,
in the winds of steady change and in the ever-rolling ocean.

All moves on in perfect, perfect motion.
All is change and ever-rolling ocean.

All is moving, all is change, though I once believed that there
might somehow be something firm beneath my feet, but
All is motion, and all is well for solid ground is just a myth 
for those who never swim in it.
All is moving in blessed change, o the world we know
will come and go and everything will rearrange, so
be the ground beneath that sky,
tumbling round the by and by.
All is change, so am I.
lye lye lye, lye lye lye.

Blessed Motion by Annie Zylstra

stone by stone
tear by tear
we release
& create right here

what is gone we build upon

credits
this is a rough cut / pre-master recorded with R. Micah Shapiro (on engineering, djembe & harmony vox) in west philly.

Stone by Stone by Taya Mâ

let it blow through
let it blow through 

open up the windows of your soul and let it blow through

hard times come and hard times go 

let it blow through

Let It Blow Through by Maggie Wheeler

Finding Our Voice is a project created and tended by Joshua Blaine (@joshuahblaine), a community song leader and organizer currently living on Narraganset land along the Atlantic Ocean. His songs are inspired by some of his favorite teachings and landscapes, from John O'Donohue to the Grand Canyon to mystical Jewish wisdom. Pre-COVID, he lead regularly community sings in the glorious domed rotunda of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, TX, where he lived for 8 years. Now, he continues to write and lead song in the virtual realm in service of collective liberation and systemic transformational justice and peace. You can support and follow his work more closely by becoming a patron at http://www.patreon.com/findingourvox and stay in the loop about his virtual song circles and other offerings on Facebook 
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Slowly (Jesse French) - Live in the Rotunda

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