Lyrics and Recordings

All is Wonder - Trisha Watts

In this moment in this place

All is wonder, all is grace

In this moment in this place

Silence waits

All I Ask of You (Ishq Allah) - Gregory Norbet combined with Traditional Sufi song, Ishq Allah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ov8spkd6lA

All I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you

Ishq Allah Mabud Lilla

Angel Wash (I Behold You) - Saphir Lewis & Rafe Pearlman

https://soundcloud.com/fairycongress/angel-wash-song

I behold you beautiful one

I behold you child of the earth and sun

Let my love wash over you

Let my love watch over you

Babethandaza (Sin Nje) - Traditional from South Africa in the public domain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7n9OEjIWbI

P1

Sin nje nje nje ngemi thandazo (x2) – We are like this, like this, like this because of prayer (x2)
Ngemi thandazo, Ngemi thandazo (x2) – Because of prayer, because of prayer (x2)
P2
Oo mama babudale, Babethandaza (x2) – Our ancestors would pray (x2)

Bele Mama - 'Call Mama' Mouangue African Ensemble (song originated in Cameroon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrUUVf9kMHs

Bele Mama bele mama hey

Bele mama bele mama hey

Bele mama, bele mama, bele mama, bele mama

Bele mama, bele mama hey

Forget Your Perfect Offering - Adapted from Leonard Cohen’s ‘Anthem’

Forget your perfect offering / forget your perfect offering
Just sing a song that you can sing / just sing a song that you can sing

There is a crack in everything / there is a crack in everything

Thats how / thats how

The light / the light

Gets in, That’s how the light gets in (together)

Thats how / thats how

The light / the light

Gets in, That’s how the light gets in (together)

Good News - Coco Love Alcorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrdwOsnseM

Good news, we’re breathing
Good news, we’re alive
Good news, we’re here
And no one can deny

You can break my heart, You can break my bones
But no one can break my spirit
‘Cause my spirit is my home
You can take my money, You can take my time
But no one can take my spirit
‘Cause my spirit is mine

Chorus

You can fool my mind, You can fool my eyes
But no one can fool my spirit
‘Cause my spirit is wise
You can bound my body, You can bound my day
But no one can bound my spirit
‘Cause my spirit knows the way

Humbly - Laurence Cole

https://www.laurencecole.com/album/humbly/

P1:

Humbly we walk here,

Humbly we sing here,

Humbly we bless this ground.

P2:

Humbly,

And with gratitude,

Remembering the ancient ones who walk this ground.

P3:

Humbly, we walk this ground

With the Spirit of Blessing in our hearts.

I am Innocent - Kristina Jessen

I am innocent, you are innocent

We are here, just as we are

Open, Let go

I forgive, and I know

I Dreamed of Rain - Jan Garrett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBzQ1Y4GG4I

find lyrics here: https://cypresschoral.com/composers/larry-nickel/i-dreamed-and-rain/

I Release Control - Alexa Sunshine-Rose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HdIEfWC0xA

I release control

And surrender to the flow

Of love

That will heal me

Ide Were Were - Traditional, public domain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUeIFRkthb8

Ide were were nita oshun
Ide were were
Ide were were nita oshun
Ide were were nita ya

Ocha kiniba nita oshun
Cheke cheke cheke
Nita ya
Ide were were

Java Jazz - Brian Tate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFVfN0qcCbY

P1

Grind that coffee, I said

Grind that coffee

P2

Shot a’java, hot shot a’java

Shot a’java, Hot! Hot!

P3

Gotta get a cup, gotta get a cup

Gotta get a cup, of coffee

P4

Coffee Waaaah

Coffee Waaaaaah

Jewels - Barbara McAfee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OjQ_v7VtFI

P1:

Every time I go into the darkness,

I return with fistfulls of jewels

P2:

Midnight velvet wraps all around me

Stars glitter brilliant above

P3:

Dreaming darkness, Dreaming light

Lean in Softly - Ian Carrick

https://soundcloud.com/iancarrick/to-listen-is-to-lean

To listen is to lean in softly

Lean in soft with your heart

With the willingness

To be changed

Be changed by what you hear

Let Life Move Me - Scott Kalechstein GraceAdapted
by Gretchen Sleicher/PT Songlines Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhGxudEcuY0

Chords: Am Dm E

I’m gonna let life move me

I’m gonna let life stir me deep

I’m gonna let life wake me

From an ancient sleep

I’m gonna laugh all my laughter

I’m gonna cry all my tears

I’m gonna love the rain just as deeply as the

Sun when it clears

Listen - (Eel River Song) - Meredith Buck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEz3w82xHI&t=1s

Part I:
Listen, listen, listen, listen

Part II:
Lay yourself down on the rocks now
Let your body down in the river
Listen for the drumming on the other side
Lose yourself in the meantime

Part III:
Listen
Let your body be your guide
Let the water decide
Lose yourself in the meantime

Loosen - Aly Halpert

https://youtu.be/Biv9Yh_z4QU?si=4LWLqiAoYSvag2Xa

P1

Loosen loosen baby, you don't have to carry

The weight of the world in your muscles and bones

Let go let go let go

P2

Holy breath, and holy name

Will you ease, will you ease this pain

Needle to North - Jen Jones arr. Heidi Wilson (Northern Harmony)

https://northernharmony.bandcamp.com/track/needle-to-north

I was down in the lowlands, where I don't know the stones
Doubt held my mind like a cloud
Heart's needle to North, like a bell ... rung (bell rung aloud)
Mountains are calling me, Oh, Oh,

Come higher, come home

Rutabaga - Joanne Hammil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kauLC1ofWpk

P1: Broccoli, Kale, Rutabaga, Brussel Sprouts

P2: Mama says to eat your vegetables, even, guess what, Rutabaga

P3: Believe it or not, Rutabaga tastes good

P4: Who would name a food Rutabagaa!

Put Your Roots Down - Molly Hartwell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Ef35UIO0U

Song starts at 1:10 - Thrive Choir (Oakland CA), they're amazing, lots of great songs and videos!

Put your roots down, put your feet on the ground,
You can hear what she says if you listen (x2)
Cuz the sound of the river as she moves across the stones,
Is the same sound as the blood in your body as it moves across your bones,
Are you listenin? (x2)"

Tea Song - (unknown)

(working to find it!)

Oh won't you,

Bring me a nice cup of,

Tea in the morning

Just as the sun is a'risin and a'dawnin

Ooee! That would be just the ticket

Rollin on the sea

Sippin cups of tea

This is Home - Sophia Efthemiou

https://www.google.com/search?q=this+is+home

This is home, where I belong

In this Breath, in this Heart

This is home, where I belong

In this Voice, in this Song

Trees Grow Slow - Laurence Cole

https://www.laurencecole.com/album/trees-grow-slow

(check out the rest of his lovely website and song catalogue there too!)

Trees grow slow, and trees grow strong
Trees sway with the wind their whole lives long
And trees hold the ground as they reach for the sky
And fallen trees still feed the seeds they cast before they die

Tower of Strength - Jackie Summers

https://singingalive.org/2015/02/26/tower-of-strength/
close! to our version :)

I am a tower of strength

Within and without

I am a tower of strength within

x2

I let, All burdens fall from my shoulders

All anxieties slip from my mind

x2

I let, all my shackles be loo-oo-oose

I let all my shackles be loose

x2

Walk With Me - Maggie Wheeler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHD5Ln3FgQw

I WALK IN THE SPIRIT I WALK IN THE LIGHT
*I WALK THROUGH THE DARKEST HOURS OF NIGHT *
AND I CALL ON MY ANCESTORS TO MY LEFT AND MY RIGHT TO WALK WITH ME,
TO WALK WITH ME

I WALK IN THE SPIRIT I WALK IN THE LIGHT
*I WALK IN THE SERVICE OF DOING WHATS RIGHT *
AND I CALL ON MY ANCESTORS TO MY LEFT AND MY RIGHT TO WALK WITH ME,
TO WALK WITH ME

6 more verses here:
https://goldenbridgechoir.com/track/1484679/walk-with-me-alto

We Shall Be Known - Mamuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX11MEtbkXI

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

When I Walk - Composer unknown (a secular hymn)

When I walk, oh walk with me

All along my pilgrim's journey

When I walk, oh walk with me

(sing, dance, rise, laugh etc)

Woyaya - Osibisa (Ghanaian band 'The beautiful 7')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ux6F-A8bu4 - skip to 2:15 for choir start, and 4:45 for "Woyaya's"

Slightly different version, but so beautiful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwckMpR9V-Q