Name: vashti's song: herstory | batya levine and molly bajgot by molly bajgot | original music
Duration: 5 min
Description: Batya Levine and I wrote this feminist twist on the Purim story of Queen Vashti and the King's decree.

This is great!!!! I love the harmony and the timely theme - excellent folk!!

Mozi's Nigun  (Learning Track) Joey Weisenberg

Havdallah

Trees Grow Slow - Laurence Cole
recorded by Audrey Berman, Arone Dyer, Margot Beeber, Lia Medman, Zebi Williams, Zia Evan Hyatt Ryan Williams & Margot Seigle
February 1st, 2017

Trees grow slow
Trees grow strong
Trees sway with the wind
Their whole lives long
Trees hold the ground
As they reach for the sky
And fallen trees still feed the seeds
They cast before they die

SHEVAT - Trees Grow Slow

Batya Levine and I wrote this feminist twist on the Purim story of Queen Vashti and the King's decree.

vashti's song: herstory | batya levine and molly bajgot

This song was born while contending with stories of sexual assault and survival, from generation to generation— from grandma to me— holding the awe and weight of still being here. The English was completed when the US announced its war on  brilliant and bold  transgender and transsexual bodies-souls—minds—humans.

photo by Micah Bazant.

Chords (with capo)
Am Am Dm Dm G  G Am Am

Am Am Dm Dm C E Am Am 

Am Am Dm Dm C E Am Am

Am Am Dm Dm C E Am Am 

Am (fingerpick directly into) C G Dm Am

Am (fingerpick) C G Am Am 

Am (fingerpick) C G Dm Am 

Am (fingerpick) C G Am Am

L'dor Vador We Endure by Noam Lerman

Ir Yidn Zolt Zayn Heylig  by Noam Lerman. Zoë Aqua on violin

Nigunim

Twine Nigun

68th Street Pier Nigun/Yedid Nefesh (Rena Branson)

by Bernice Johnson Reagon (adapted by Toshi Reagon, I think)

Let your light shine, shine, shine
There is someone down in the valley tryin' to get home
It may be one and it may be two, it may be me and it may be you
(Call + response)
1: Tryin' to get home
2: Let your little light shine

Let Your Light Shine (w/ Harmony)

Hadar Tefillah Recordings

Yaaleh V'Yavo - sung by Deborah Sacks Mintz (tune is either Miami Boys Choir or Yaakov Shwekey)

Poem by Lila Serene, translated by Lila & her mom Ana Goldenberg.
Melody by Margot Seigle
Recorded on the 24th of Iyar 5780 // Netzach shebe Yesod 
Yiddish pronunciation support from Noam Lerman 

This poem is about trusting the babies choosing to be conceived and born in this pandemic to be bringing with them the gifts and wisdom that are most needed.

naye lebn

dayne 
zise oygn farshpreyt
fris tsit fun eybikeyt arop
greyt, hungeric
oysgisn bagleybtkyte azoy vi honic dekn mid harts 
onton a bissle fargenign azoy vi vesne regn 
gebakt in der shmek fun frish likht
du bist punkt genoy gekumen aher 
biz a hor ven du kumft iz der merste veytikeyt
un ich tsuher zich 
hent aroysraysn tfilin fun lipn farstitert 
doziker beyner fartriknt megn beygn gehnuk niderik
kushn dos erd gehnuk tsertlekh
zayn bagrisn ba der mikdesh
fun vos du host gekumen aher tsulernen.

translation: 

new life.

Your 
Wide sweet eyes 
Fresh plucked from eternity 
Ready hungry 
pouring trust like syrup over tired hearts 
a sprinkling of joy like spring rain steeped in the scent of fresh light 
you are right on time
right when you're needed most 
and I am listening
palms pressing prayers through trembling lips
may these drying bones bend low enough 
to kiss this earth gently enough 
to be received at the altar 
of what you've come here to teach.

Naye Lebn

power of spirit and music * maker of prayer thru song * lover of chants * jewishly grounded and inspired

vashti's song: herstory | batya levine and molly bajgot

molly bajgot | original music

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