I Loooove this!!!!!!! thank you!!!!! love the sonic lushness too :) ❤️🙏

Wowwywowwow. Love song to/from the Divine!

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)

Something deep within you is awakening
Let it wake
Let it wake

Sarah Lockwood's Album

Something Deep Within You

This is a practice track for an upcoming retreat.
Hope   by Debbie Nargi-Brown

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the Soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all" Emily Dickinson

Never, never never, never, never, never, never, never. never
Never give up, on hope

Hope is living in my Soul

HOPE

Words by Hafiz.  Music by Barbara McAfee. Piano by Steven Hobert.  A wish for a friend.....
© Big Bug Music - all rights reserved

I Wish That I Could Show You

This song is such an uplifting delight! It's an easy one to get going with any group and can be simplified by teaching just 2 or 3 of the parts. NOTE: This recording has been updated as of mid-June 2018 with personally corrected parts by Sarah and a new arrangement for Wholehearted Chorus. 

Original song and copyright by Sarah Nutting of MaMuse.  Work to Be Done is included in this song library with permission for the purposes of oral tradition singing and teaching. If singing this song for performance or recording for profit, you must get permission from and pay royalties to the composer.

For more information, including individual part tracks, lyrics and more, visit: http://thebirdsings.com/work-to-be-done

Work to Be Done by Sarah Nutting of MaMuse

This one (chorus) came through in Northeast Missouri while singing with a couple people and (verses) in California outside the house I grew up in, standing at the foot of a great Monterey Cyprus tree (not a Redwood!) and watching some vines climb up the brick outside of the house.

Chorus:
Sister you are not too far holding
I need your strength to carry on

Verse 1:
Our bodies are bound like the vines on the side of a house somewhere deep in the heart of the earth

Verse 2:
Our roots intertwine like the Redwood tree somewhere deep in the soil in the soul of the earth

Sister, You Are Not Too Far for Holding

This song came through in pieces over the course of many weeks. As I was writing and uncovering it I experienced it as a song that was demanding itself be heard, despite the discomfort it often provoked for me. It is relentlessly fiery - an expression of love as a fierce "no" our boundary, as a mother protecting her young. As I was writing it felt clear to me that this voice is essential and called for in our world now. In a world where it is all too easy to lose sight of how our actions and lifestyle impact others and where we often lurch into excess and greed at the expense of others, this song offers a voice of fierce boundary that can be helpful in waking us up and restoring balance.As I've been teaching it to Wholehearted Chorus, I have been encouraging my singers to make it their own, so it is personally meaningful for them. For me much of this song has been a response to climate grief, and some parts a response to the "me too" movement, along with a deeply personal journey of feeling the spirit of fierce, feminine power within. I wish to express my gratitude to Patra Lounsbury for making the connection of this energy with Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of fierce power, and for Deva Munay and all who supported this song's birth and my integration of Sekhmet's archetype within it. I would also like to thank Ben Gould for writing the men's part, and Annie Anton for her contribution of one of the melodic lines.

Original song by Lisa G. Littlebird, with contributions by and appreciations to Ben Gould & Annie Anton. Recorded by Lisa G. Littlebird with Ben Gould.

For lyrics, individual part tracks and more, visit: http://thebirdsings.com/sekhmet/

Song of Sekhmet by Lisa G. Littlebird

The ethereal voices of Yala Lati meet the colorful voice of Heather Houston for a rainbow of sonic delight! Calling you home to the sacred circle of sisterhood, this album is a symphony for the innermost tendrils of the heart. 

We are sisters of the moon 
And daughters of the sun
We are mothers of the world
Our voices they are one
We are lovers of the earth 
and guardians of the land
We are weavers of the dream 
Together we are standing

For parts to these songs, please visit Heather's public song library at:
https://heatherhoustonmusic.com/sisters-in-harmony-song-library/

Sisters of the Moon

05 - Tending the Spark

This song was recorded live at Esalen at the first Singing on the Edge retreat in 2018. This is an orginal song by Debbie Narg-Brown. Debbie is the lead singer on this track and if you listen closely you will hear Lisa G. Littlebird and Barbara McAfee in the background singing as well as retreat participants. Glen Phillips on guitar and Emile Hassan Dyer on drums. To learn more about Debbie's music go to www.debbienargi-brown.com

Put Back Together Again/I Will Let My Heart be Broken

A fire burns in the bottom of an old Well 
Burn fire burn 
The tongue & the water dance like old friends
I’m willing to Learn 
How you move in me 
How you move through me 
Come move
Spark the depths of me 
Soothe the rest of me 
I choose 

This song friend landed in my heart last summer full moon lady story healing o’clock. It’s resurfacing as another layer comes up to be loved and forgiven. Thanks, the Song. 

Thanks, J. Pence for adding some sonic lushness.

Image: "I Hear You" by Lyndsey Scott (me!) 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/205000995/i-hear-you?ref=shop_home_active_18

Dance Like Old Friends (A Fire Burns)

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>

-LIL∆-G∆I∆-  << lyndsey scott >>.   Song welcomes us to Life, now.  It teaches me to Hold each moment as prayer, whatever the task at hand.  It gives me a way to praise this question, this being, this ache, This.   As a community songleader, I love to honor our thresholds, bring beauty to our gatherings, tend the grief in our bones, liberate the pleasure in our bodies ~  all woven in sweet music, all in service of this great big Coming Home.

Dance Like Old Friends (A Fire Burns)

-LIL∆-G∆I∆- << lyndsey scott >>

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