I wrote this song for my sweet friend Jessa Roquet (Gambler's Daughter) as she faced cancer. Now as I'm grieving and getting ready for her funeral I recorded it while another friend was in labor with her first baby. This song is for anyone who needs to hear they are not alone. We are held by our sweet Mama's eternal love.

Sweet Mama Love

Upon my first month spent as a work scholar at Esalen Institute in 2005, our gifted group leader David Schiffman was inspired to write and share this short poem with us. A few years later I put it to music and began sharing it in groups. I shared the song with David before he passed away and sang it at his memorial. Since that time this song has been traveling far and wide, a healing song of potent simplicity. ~Lisa

This song is versitile - hymn-like, march-like and easy to learn.

Copyright Lisa G. Littlebird. Vocals on the track by Lisa G. Littlebird.

This is a recording used as a practice track for the Wholehearted Chorus of Monterey and Big Sur, CA, under the direction of Lisa G. Littlebird. Lyrics and individual part tracks can be found at:
http://thebirdsings.com/spirit-found-us

Spirit Found Us

A simple gospel song that's hard to beat! This is wonderfully effective with the melody (middle) part alone for easy teaching, or with just the high harmony added. This arrangement in three voices was created for Wholehearted Chorus. This song covers a lot of vocal range and encourages singers to find comfort in the lower and upper reaches of their voice.

Original song by Curtis Burrell, arrangement inspired by James Cleveland as shared by Aimee Ringle. Recording by Lisa G. Littlebird.

For lyrics, individual part tracks and more, please visit:  http://thebirdsings.com/i-dont-feel-in-no-ways-tired/

Rise Up Singing

I Don't Feel in No Ways Tired

Negro Spiritual reinterpreted by Koach Baruch Frazier

Be With Me by Koach Baruch Frazier

Healing Song by Kestrel Feiner-Homer

John Hubert Conducting 
Sarah Libert, Organ 
Beth Rosbach, Cello 
Miriam Kapner, Oboe 
Christmas Gainsbrugh, Flute 
Barbara Lepke-Sims, Harp 
Michael Kuhr, Tympani

Rutter Requiem  I Requiem Aeternam

Artist: Molly Hartwell
I learned from Thrive Choir's online videos.

Sung at a song circle on July 20, 2019 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Lyrics:
Put your roots down
Put your feet on the ground
You can hear the Earth sing if you listen (x2)

'Cuz the sound of the river
As it moves across the stones
Is the same sound as the
Blood in your body as it
Moves across your bones

Are you listenin'
Are you listenin'

Put Your Roots Down (Molly Hartwell)

Which Side Are You On

Words and music by Debbie Nargi-Brown. This song was recorded live at the first Singing on the Edge retreat at Esalen in 2018.

Words and music by Debbie Nargi-Brown, shared with permission. These songs, like most in the library are designed for sharing freely in your circles. Please credit the songwriters when you share, and ask Debbie for permission to perform or record for profit.

If you listen closely you can hear Lisa G. Littlebird and Barbara McAfee harmonizing in the background.
Lead Vocal Debbie Nargi--Brown
Glen Phillips on guitar
Emile Hassan Dyer on drums

For more information, please visit: https://thebirdsings.com/heartbebroken

I Will Let My Heart be Broken by Debbie Nargi-Brown

how can I ...

be a little more soft today
feel a little more connected today
get a little more grounded today
be a little more free today 
___ a little more ____ today

A part of the melody inspired by and based on "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus

How Can I

recorded by Aly Halpert, Sol Weiss & Margot Seigle

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.

from Annie: 
Blessed Motion is a 4-part acknowledgement of the nature of Life as an unpredictable, ever-changing movement toward itself. The melody came squatting on a rock next to a fast moving fork in the Trinity River, where salmon were in their first week of journeying to their spawning sites in northern California. Martin Prechtel said after surviving the Guatemala earthquake of 1976, during which he witnessed the ground beneath him rising up and swallowing people and villages whole, that solid ground is a myth believed by people who live on the earth rather than in it. This idea has stayed with me through the years and provided partial inspiration for this song. This is a big song! It travels through two dimensions, the first, a three or four part set of repeating lines, the second, a layered riff topped with a solo section.

Rutter Requiem I Requiem Aeternam

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