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Practice Tracks

~A note on cultural appropriation~


•Recordings are for your ears only! Do not disseminate.  For real.  It's illegal.•

•And bare with me on some of these, they're quite imperfect.  Sometimes its flat by the end of the recording, or my voice is straining.  But I hope these rough cuts get the basic parts across!•

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Do Your Best - Dodie Whitaker
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Do Your Best by Dodie Whitaker

Middle Part:

Do your best until you know better

When you know better do better

 

High Part:

I’ll do my best until my best is better altogether

 

Higher Part:

We don’t know what we don’t know

Till we know to do better

Do Your Best - middle - Dodie Whitaker
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Do Your Best - high - Dodie Whitaker
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Do Your Best - higher - Dodie Whitaker
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Great, Grand, Glorious - Debbie Nargi Brown
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Great, Grand, Glorious! by Debbie Nargi Brown

Melody:

Great grand glorious

Great grand and glorious

Its already great grand glorious

When we get together and sing

 

Basking low:

We’re basking in your glory

We’re basking in your glory

We’re basking in your glory

It’s time to rewrite the story

 

High drone:

Great grand glorious

Great grand and glorious

Great grand glorious

When we get together and sing

 

Basking high:

We’re basking in your glory x6

It’s time to rewrite the story

Great, Grand, Glorious - melody - Debbie Nargi Brown
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Great, Grand, Glorious - "Basking" high part - Debbie Nargi Brown
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Great, Grand, Glorious - "Basking" low part - Debbie Nargi Brown
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Great, Grand, Glorious - high drone - Debbie Nargi Brown
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Honeydew - Olivia Usey
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Honeydew by Olivia Usey

Low:

So sweet in my mouth

 

Middle:

Honeydew melon honeydew

Honeydew melon I love you

 

High:

Honeydew I love you

Honeydew I love you

Honeydew - low part - Olivia Usey
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Honeydew - middle part - Olivia Usey
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Honeydew - high part - Olivia Usey
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How Do I Find Faith - Katie Sontag
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How Do I Find Faith by Katie Sontag

Melody

How do I find faith in me

How do I find faith in me

How do I find faith in me

faith in me, faith in me

How do I find faith in us

How do I find faith in us

How do I find faith in us

faith in us, faith in us

 

High part

Ooo-ooo how do I find faith

How do I find faith

How do I find faith

 

“Feel the Fear”

Feel the fear

Do it anyway

Know it’ll be alright

Feel the fear

Do it anyway

Know you are not alone

 

“Feel Your Feet”

Feel your feet on the ground

Know it’ll be alright

Feel your feet on the ground

Know you are not alone​​​​​

How Do I Find Faith - melody - Katie Sontag
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How Do I Find Faith - high part - Katie Sontag
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How Do I Find Faith - "feel the fear" part - Katie Sontag
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How Do I Find Faith - "feel your feet" part - Katie Sontag
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Love This Dirt - Gina Chick
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Love This Dirt by Gina Chick

 

High Part:

Take me to the place where my heart just longs to be

Take me to the place where I know that I am free

 

Middle Part:

Every time I lay upon the earth

Feel the rhythm

Love this dirt

 

Low Part:

Every time I lay my feet upon the earth

I feel the rhythm in my body

Love this dirt

Love This Dirt - high part - Gina Chick
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Love This Dirt - middle part - Gina Chick
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Love This Dirt - low part - Gina Chick
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Sacred Space Song - Saro Lynch-Thomason
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Sacred Space Song by Saro Lynch-Thomason

 

Part 1: 

Oh we are whole again

We raise our wards again

In union with our kin 

Oh we are safe

 

Part 2: 

I wade deep, deep in the mystery

Seeking, sensing, reveling 

 

Part 3: 

We, we stand between the earth and

Earth and the sky

We fold together time and space

Sacred Space Song - part 1 - Saro Lynch-Thomason
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Sacred Space Song - part 2 - Saro Lynch-Thomason
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Sacred Space Song - part 3 - Saro Lynch-Thomason
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Show Me the Way - Karly Loveling
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Show Me the Way by Karly Loveling

 

Part 1

Show me the way I need to get going

Show me the way back to my heart

I need to grieve and believe

that love will come again

 

Part 2

Take time for your tears

Hold yourself and your fears

Love is here so

 

Harmonies 1 & 2

Love is always here

Love is ever near

Show Me the Way - part 1 - Karly Loveling
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Show Me the Way - part 2 - Karly Loveling
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Show Me the Way - harmony 1 - Karly Loveling
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Show Me the Way - harmony 2 - Karly Loveling
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Sing Your Song - Woodstock Brothers
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Sing Your Song by Jonah and Yuri Woodstock

 

Bass

If you’re longing for a song

Find a friend to sing along

You’ll be singing all day long

Sing it sing it

 

Soprano

Let it flow everyday and night if you’re living

 

Alto

Go on x4

 

Tenor

Go on sing it

Go on sing it

Go on sing your song

Sing Your Song - Bass - Woodstock Brothers
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Sing Your Song - Soprano - Woodstock Brothers
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Sing Your Song - Alto - Woodstock Brothers
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Sing Your Song - Tenor - Woodstock Brothers
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Walking Through the Myst - Woodstock Brothers
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Walking Through the Myst by Jonah and Yuri Woodstock

 

Low & Middle Engine

Walking through the myst keep it up

Keep it up until you get there

 

Harmony 1 & 2

Water water everywhere x4

 

“There is water” part

There is water in the air

There is water everywhere x2

Walking Through the Myst - low engine - Woodstock Brothers
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Walking Through the Myst - middle engine - Woodstock Brothers
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Walking Through the Myst - Harmony 1 - Woodstock Brothers
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Walking Through the Myst - harmony 2 - Woodstock Brothers
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Walking Through the Myst - "there is water" - Woodstock Brothers
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I am Me - Paul Barton
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At Village Fire 2018, Paul was doing some journaling on self-affirming mantras for his day, and came up with the harmonies very quickly and taught them to the whole gathering that evening.  This is the original version, he has since made some changes to notes but I'm stuck in my ways.  A powerful song to sing to yourself, I definitely cried the first time I sang it in earnestness to myself.

Middle -
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High -
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Low -
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When I get there - Shared by Ysaye Barnwell
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This is a Gullah song shared with a fellow choir leader by Ysaye Barnwell.  It is an example of a song that could be used as a "Ring Shout", a style of singing and praying and dancing in a circle common among slaves in the west Indies.  A type of Ecstatic prayer. Here is an excellent video about this kind of music.


 

Oh When I get there,
Oh When I get there,
Oh When I get there,
Amen!


Teaching Tracks
 

You & The Sea - Katy Rose Bennett
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You and the sea by Katy Rose Bennett

 

I don’t know where I’m going but I know just what I need

A soft wind, the shelter of the forest, birdsong

You and the sea

You & The Sea - soprano - Katy Rose Bennett
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You & The Sea - alto - Katy Rose Bennett
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You & The Sea - tenor - Katy Rose Bennett
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You & The Sea - bass - Katy Rose Bennett
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Weave a Prayer - Helen Yeomans
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Weave a Prayer by Helen Yeomans

Early in the mornin when the sun has arisen* x2
I say a prayer x2
A song of love
Of hopes and dreams
Shall weave it’s way to you

*/as the world is turnin’ and the winds of change are blowin x2

/when the day is over and the sun is a’ sleepin’
 

Weave a Prayer - soprano - Helen Yeomans
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Weave a Prayer - alto - Helen Yeomans
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Weave a Prayer - tenor - Helen Yeomans
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Weave a Prayer - bass - Helen Yeomans
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Eru Ilúvatar - Woodstock Brothers
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A praise song to the god of Tolkein's writings

Eru Ilúvatar by the Woodstock Brothers

lyrics: Eru Ilúvatar

Eru Ilúvatar - round one part - Woodstock Brothers
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Eru Ilúvatar - overlay - Woodstock Brothers
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O Light Abide -
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I learned this song when I was nine. It was sung every night at the end of fire circle as the campers at Catoctin Quaker Camp filed off to their cabins, youngest to oldest.  Instant glorious harmonies.  A powerful classic, adn one to imbue into your lives as a lullabye.  An adaptation of a chrystian hymn, "Abide with us O lord"...
 

O Light Abide - One part -
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