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

No Sweat
an original by Britta GreenViolet.

Recorded Feb 2022 for use in Britta's podcast, "The Sage & The Song"

Learn more about Britta's work + her "HeartSong" 6-week singing course on her website:
brittagreenviolet.com

No Sweat

Wild and Free

This song was born on Wintu Pom (Northern Wintu) & Nom Sus Wintu land (trinity alps // swift creek // mumford meadows). I was preparing for a four-day earth-communion time of solitude & fasting. I laid down at the place where two rivulets came together, watching a spider weave between blades of grass, feeling in myself this question: 

"Toward where is the Golden Thread tugging me now? What is my heart asking for? What do I KNOW?"

Lyrics:

At the place where the waters meet 
Spider weaves a web
Casting a Golden Thread to the center of your knowing

At the place where the waters meet
Spider weaves a web
Ze (she/he/they) say(s)
"Be still & wait. It will all become clear."

I am still breathing this in. Spider invites me to stay; to keep going -- keep weaving, Ze says. Trust that what you need will come. Prepare for the known unknown even though it has not arrived yet. Weave. Trust. Listen. Do your work, cast your spells, & then wait. It will all become clear. Somewhere in you KNOWS -- Knows what is on its way +++ 

What in you KNOWS? Where is the Golden Thread tugging you? Where can you surrender to trust a little bit more?

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Recorded with Lisa Littlebird & Karisha Longaker.

The Golden Thread

Pt 1
On a night like this I swim with the moon
Flowing through my soul, oohh

Pt 2
La luna calls to me
Open to her ecstacy

Pt 3
Let it out, let it out
Let it all out
Shake it off, shake it off
Dance in your fullness, dance in your fullness
Beauty

Pt 4
I want to howl
I want to scream
In this moon dance I feel all of me

Dance in Your Fullness (moon song)

I Belong

Lay it on Down - Heather Houston

Part 1:
You gotta  lay it on down, down, down, down

Lay it on down

Come on and lay it on down, down, down, down

Lay it on down

Part 2:
You don’t have to carry this much weight

You can lay it on down, down, down it’ll be okay


Part 3:
Trust, let the current carry you

Trust, in the waters moving through

Trust, in the cycles of the moon

Trust, in these hand your holding,

Love will see you through

Lay it on Down - Heather Houston

Hurrican

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

Music: Miriam Margles
Words: Ary Solomon
I learned at Hava Nashira (singing retreat at OSRUI in Wisconsin) from Noam Katz. Original words are in Hebrew (zeh hayom asah adonai nagilah v'nis'm'cha vo) and have been changed (not a translation).

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

Lyrics:
Raise your eyes look up to the sky
Feel the rain as it falls down

*Note: I originally thought the music was by Noam Katz - thank you Baci Weiler for the correction!

Raise Your Eyes (Music: Miriam Margles, Lyrics: Ary Solomon)

Singing circle tune I wrote inspired by a feeling that safety matters, hearts and minds can open when we feel safe in ourselves and in our communities of loved ones.

painting by Megan Duncanson

Wild and Free

Sarina Partridge

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