Practice Tracks
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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
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
Low:
So sweet in my mouth
Middle:
Honeydew melon honeydew
Honeydew melon I love you
High:
Honeydew I love you
Honeydew I love you
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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 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
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’
A praise song to the god of Tolkein's writings
Eru Ilúvatar by the Woodstock Brothers
lyrics: Eru Ilúvatar
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"...