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2 | For years I've been collecting songs that can be taught largely without written words, shet music, or instrumental accompaniment. They're songs for worship, meetings, rallies, or spiritual practice. You may notice that some songs don't have attributions or recordings. I'd especially love to fill those in. If you have knowledge of where a particular song came from, who wrote it, or where I might find a recording of it, please reach out-- I'd love to be properly attributing these songs as they get spread wider and wider in the world. In faith, gratitude, and liberation, Matt Meyer matt@rhythmrevelations.com rhythmrevelations.com | With gratitude to the Lucy Stone Co-op, Moishe Kavod House, Sanctuary Boston, IfNotNow, Cosecha, Black Lives Matter, Pipeline Activists, and dozens of UU musicians across the country who taught me these songs one at a time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 | A Dedication | As for me and my house, you will find us serving truth. (3x) Truth for all right now. ...you will find us serving peace... ...you will find us serving love... ...you will find us serving joy... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=889FV4gpXIA | Lea Morris | Lea Morris | 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | All We Have Ever Loved | All we have ever loved and all we have ever been, stand with us on the edge of all creation Amen (4x) Peace going deeper Love growing larger Hope getting stronger And joy here together Amen (4x) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDzLrheLQwY | Adapted from Rev. Leslie Takahashie | Verses from a traditional American folk song? Chorus traditional African American (popularized by Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field) | Original verses: "When I get to the other side, I ain't gonna work no more. I work so much whenI'm on this side, my legs are tired and my back is sore. When I get to the other side, I ain't gonna drink no more. I drink so much when I'm on this side, I forget what I started for. When I get to the other side, I ain't gonna pray no more. Pray so much when I'm on this side, Never get what I'm asking for." Matt learned this from Nicole Singer, who learned it from a guy riding freight trains. | 96 | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Song of Alleluia | Alleluia (4x) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POMJbxRDmv8 | Matt Meyer | Matt Meyer | UU | Opening words and call to worship. | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | Blessed Motion | I believed in solid ground until I saw the earth in motion, in the winds of steady change and in the ever-rolling ocean. All moves on in perfect, perfect motion. All is change and ever-rolling ocean. | https://www.heartlandharmony.net/blessedmotion | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Break em on down | Break 'em on down, break 'em on down. Break em on down these walls between us. | http://sgs.lpi.org.uk/seagreensingers/music/Breakemondownntl.htm | Harmony Grisman | Harmony Grisman | 3 parts | 76 | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | Bright Morning Star | Bright morning star a risin' (3x) Day is a breakin' in my soul. Rise up from morning slumber... Rise up and hear your calling... Oh, lift your voice to heaven... We'll build this faith together... | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Matt Meyer | ?? | Christian, UU | This is a different melody than the UU hymnal. | 90 | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | Building Bridges | Building bridges between our divisions if I reach out to you, will you reach out to me? With all of our voices and all of our visions, friends we can make such sweet harmony. | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Women of the Greenham Common Peace Occupation in England, 1983 | English Quaker Round | #1023 in Singing the Living Tradition Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp | 96 | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Call Down a Blessing | Call down a blessing (3X) call down Beauty above us, beauty below us, beauty within us and beauty between us. Love above us... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnjYerhnLds | Margaret J. Nelson | Margaret J. Nelson | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Calypso Alleluia | Alleluia! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSocn9U3UnM | Thomas Benjamin | Thomas Benjamin | UU | #1036 in Singing the Journey | 132 | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | Come, Come, whoever you are | Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. Ours is no caravan of despair. Come, yet again, come. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmMp0OKHgTA | Rumi | Rev. Lynn Ungar | Sufi words | Rumi was a Sufi mystic, a muslim political refugee, and one of the world's most famous poets. | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | Comfort Me | Comfort me, comfort me, comfort me oh my soul. (2x) Sing with me... Dance with me... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovXRln8IiPg | Mimi Bornstein | Mimi Bornstein | UU | #1002 in Singing the Journey | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | Compassionate Eyes | May my hands do the work I was sent here to do. May my ears know the truth from the lies. May my voice speak for justice, may I walk unafraid. May I see through compassionate eyes. | https://songsforthegreatturning.net/going-forth/compassionate-eyes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Courage my friend (Sing Your Spirit Home) | Courage (courage), my friend (my friend), you do not walk alone. We will (we will) walk with you (walk with you) and sing your spirit home. | https://soundcloud.com/ifnotnow/courage-1 | Eric Bogle | Eric Bogle | "The tune of the chorus at the end of the song “courage brother etc” is based on a Zulu song called Shosholoza, but the rest of it is mine"....Eric | 76 | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | Ella's Song | We who believe in freedom can not rest We who believe in freedom can not rest until it comes. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Uus--gFrc | Ella Baker | Sweet Honey in the Rock | Words from Ella Baker, Activist and organizer, "Godmother to SNCC." | 100 | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | Enter, Rejoice, & Come In | Enter, rejoice, and come in (2x) Today will be a joyful day Enter, rejoice, and come in. Open your ears everyone... Open your hearts to the song... Don't be afraid of some change... | Louise Ruspini | Louise Ruspini | #361, Singing the Living Tradition | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Forget Your Perfect Offering | Forget Your Perfect Offering (Forget Your Perfect Offering) Just ring the bells that still can ring (Just ring the bells that still can ring) There is a crack in everything (There is a crack in everything) That's how (That's how) the light (the light) gets in (that's how the light gets in) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M028rji5qh4 | Adapted from Leonard Cohen | unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | From this House | From this house (From this house), to the world (to the world), we will go (we will go) hand in hand (hand in hand) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-Mbg8sOzw | Ben Allaway | Ben Allaway | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Gathered Here | Gathered Here in the mystery of the hour. Gathered here in one strong body. Gathered here in the struggle and the power, Spirit draw near. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQij3DIA7Cw | Phil Porter | Phil Porter | #389, Singing the Living Tradition | 90 | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Glory, Glory, Allelulia | Glory glory, Alleluia Since I lay my burden down. (2x) I feel better, so much better... I can talk better, so much better... Friends don't treat me like they used to... I can walk better, so much better... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-CKs6G_KJg | African American | 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Hineh Ma Tov | Hineh mah tov umah nayim shevet aheem gam yahad (2x) How good it is and how pleasant for people to dwell together. Good and pleasant, people in peace together. | Psalm 133:1 | Jewish | #392, Singing the Living Tradition | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Hold On | Hold on just a little while longer (3x) Everything will be alright Walk on... Pray on.. Sing on... March on... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7K9wbE4Gpc | African American | 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | I am Sending You Light | I am sending you light to heal you, to hold you, I am sending you light to hold you in love. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIsZuoNFtXg | Melanie DeMore | Melanie DeMore | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | I Can't Breathe | I still hear my brother crying, "I can't breathe." Now I'm in the struggle singing, "I can't leave!" We're calling out the violence of these racist police We ain't gonna stop Til our people are free. We ain't gonna stop Til our people are free. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QganWg3WSQ | Luke Nephew, Peace Poets | Luke Nephew, Peace Poets | BLM | ||||||||||||||||||||
27 | I Know this Rose WIll Open | I know this rose will open I know my fears will burn away I know my soul will unfurl it's wings I know this rose will open | Mary Grigolia | Mary Grigolia | #396, Singing the LIving Tradition | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||
28 | I Will Believe | I will believe the truth about myself No matter how beautiful it is. | https://soundcloud.com/newsynagogueproject/i-will-believe-the-truth-about-myself | Macrina Wiederkehr & Velma Frye | Macrina Wiederkehr & Velma Frye | part of the Art of Mentoring Song collection http://www.resoundnw.com/uploads/6/2/0/5/6205211/i_will_believe_the_truth_about_myself_poem.pdf | 72 | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | I Will Carry You | I will carry you through these changes 2x | https://soundcloud.com/renabranson/i-will-carry-youvad-seva-inspired-by-isaiah-464 | Rena Branson | Rena Branson | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | I’ll lift up this Waiting | I'll lift up this waiting, that it won't be in vain. I'll lift up this longing to a higher place. I'll lift up this waiting, that it won't be vain And I'll lift up this longing to you And I'll bath in the light of your face. | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Rabbi Minna Bromberg | Rabbi Minna Bromberg | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
31 | I’m gonna lift my sister up | I'm gonna lift my sister up, she is not heavy (3x) if I don't lift her up (3x) I will fall down. I'm gonna lift my brother... ...sibling... ...neighbor... ...my people... | https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/im-gonna-lift-my-sister-up | Faya Ora Rose Tourè | Faya Ora Rose Tourè | Check out Faya Ora Rose Toure, she's badass. First black woman judge in Alabama, playwright, song writer, and founder of numerous civil rights organizations. | 80 | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | I’m gonna Sing, Sing, Sing | I'm gonna sing, sing, sing. I'm gonna dance, dance, dance. I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna dance, hallelu! When those gates are open wide, I'll be standing by your side. I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna dance, hallellu! Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. (2x) Oh when the saints, go marching in (2x) How I want to be in that number, when the saints go marching in. Ezekial saw the wheel, way up in the middle of the air (4X) | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | African American | 120 | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | In the Shelter | In the shelter of each other In the shelter of our lives We are open, we are dreaming We are hopeful, we are wise. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2JHghSVLNM | Reggie Harris | Reggie Harris | 110 | ||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Jubilate Deo | Jubilate Deo (2) alleluia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVsQCkfvZI | Traditional | Michael Praetorius | Christian | 6 part round | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | Just for a Little While | Just for a Little While Will you sit with me (x2) Just for a little while I know there's a world we're fighting for Comrade, I am hurting (x2) Just for a little while I know there's a world we're fighting for I'm not running away No, I'm not giving up hope But I am feeling tired (pause) Just for a little while I know there's a world we're fighting for Comrade, hold my hand Comrade, remind me Just for a little while I know there's a world we're fighting for Comrade, hold my hand Comrade, remind me Just for a little while I know there's a world we're fighting for Just for a little while I know there's a world we're fighting for | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Gyw9F4lT0 | Mother Tongue, Raphael Agosto-Miranda | Mother Tongue, Raphael Agosto-Miranda | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Keep on Moving forward | Gonna keep on moving forward (3x) never turning back (2x) Keep on singing loudly... Keep on loving boldy... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtiXT5c5jBQ | Emma's Revolution | Emma's Revolution | 108 | ||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Kol HaNeshamah | Kol HaNeshamah (All that has breath shall praise God!) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRzPG9j7xE | Jewish | "The breath of every living thing praises God." | |||||||||||||||||||||
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39 | Let the Life I Lead | Let the Life I Lead speak for me. (2x) *When I'm lying in my grave and there's nothing more to say. Let the life I lead speak for me. Let the friends I have... Let the work I do... Let the Love I share... Let the songs I sing... *(alternative) When I come to the end of the road and I lay down my heavy load. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4za3aOHM884 | Adapted from Sullivan Pugh | Adapted from Sullivan Pugh | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Listen my people/Oye mi gente | Oye mi gente, traemos la fuerza, la libertad es la unica bandera. Listen my people, my condor, my eagle, no human can ever be illegal. | https://www.facebook.com/latinojustice/videos/1416104648482470/ | Peace Poets | Peace Poets | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Loosen, Loosen | 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. Holy breathe and holy name, will you ease, will you ease this pain. | https://soundcloud.com/aly-halpert/loosen-loosen | Aly Halpert | Aly Halpert | 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Magnificence | Wash me away, so that all that's left is love. There is so much magnificence in the ocean. Waves are coming in (2x). Allelu, Alleluia... | https://adamah-org.bandcamp.com/track/magnificence-5775 | Peter Makena | Johann Pachelbel | http://www3.telus.net/public/sarlo/Songs/OSmagnificence.htm | 72 | |||||||||||||||||||
43 | Mah gadlu | Mah gadlu ma’aseh chaya M’ode amku mach’sh’votecha (hallelujah) (How great is your work, oh G-d, how very deep are your thoughts!) | http://www.rabbishefagold.com/daily-psalms/ | Psalm 92 | Shefa Gold | Jewish | 66 | |||||||||||||||||||
44 | May I Be Empty | May I be empty and open to receive the light. May I be empty and open to receive. May I be full and open to receive the light. May I be full and open to receive. ...to receive the dark... ...to receive the love... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9c-rgm2zfU | Batya Levine | Batya Levine | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||
45 | May You Walk in Your Life as a Warrior | May you walk in your life as a warrior Clear and loving and strong May you walk in your life as a warrior Trusting the path you are on May you walk in your life as a healer... May you walk in your life as a lover… May you walk in your life as a woman... | https://songsforthegreatturning.net/going-forth/may-you-walk-betsy-rose/ | Betsy Rose | Betsy Rose | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | May Your Life be as a Song | May your life be as a song, resounding with the dawn, to sing awake the light. And softly serenade the stars, ever dancing circles in the night. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAvai4ukcYI | Jim Scott | 140 | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Meditation on Breathing | When I breath in, I breath in peace. When I breath out love. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijYkPIvR6g | Sarah Dan Jones | Sarah Dan Jones | UU | #1009, Singing the Journey | 96 | ||||||||||||||||||
48 | More Waters Rising | There are more waters rising, This I know, This I know. There are more waters rising, This I know. There are more waters rising, They will find their way to me. There are more waters rising, This I know. There are more fires burning... There are more mountains falling... I will wade through the waters... I will wade through the waters, When they find their way to me… I will walk through the fires… I will walk through the fires, When they find their way to me… I will rebuild the mountains… I will rebuild the mountains, When they find their way to me… | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWWLzAlADVY | Saro Lynch-Thomason | Saro Lynch-Thomason | 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Music (We are Going) | We are going to a place where music falls and fills up everything. And though it might be a long time, I know it's gonna be alright, cause we've already started to sing | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU92qaBXiIM | Matthew Myer-Boulton | Matthew Myer-Boulton | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Od’yavoh Shalom Aleinu | Od’yavoh Shalom Aleinu (3x) ve al kulam. Salaam, aleinu ve al kol ha olam, Salaam, Salaam. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLDKtUeYCwc | Mosh Ben Ari | Mosh Ben Ari | Jewish | Translation: And peace will come upon us and on everyone. peace, among us and on all of the world, peace, peace. | |||||||||||||||||||
51 | Oh River | Finding my way (3x) back home Oh river, I hear you, feel you, calling me. Oh river, who will I be when I reach the sea. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gtXTULVvY | mamuse | mamuse | 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Oh Sing to me of Heaven | (c) There'll be no sorrow(2x) In heaven above, where all is love. There'll be no sorow there. (v1) Oh sing to me of heaven, when I am called to die. Sing songs of holy ecstacy to waft my soul on high. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2O0yjZWp_M | https://hymnary.org/text/o_sing_to_me_of_heaven_when_i_am_called_/fulltexts | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Oh We Give Thanks | Oh, we give thanks for this precious day. For all gathered here and those far away. For this time we share with love and care. Oh, we give thanks for this precious day. | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Wendy Luella Perkins | Wendy Luella Perkins | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Olam Chesed Yibaneh | Olam Chesed Yibaneh | https://soundcloud.com/ifnotnow/olam-hesed-yibaneh | Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Jewish | 80 | |||||||||||||||||||
55 | Open My Heart | Open My Heart | Ana Hernandez | Ana Hernandez | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Or Zarua | Or zarua latzadik u'l'yish'rey lev simchah (Plant the seeds of Joy and Light; Tend them carefully day and night, In this soil so dark and deep, I plant the dreams that Love will reap. -Psalm 97) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoJk8UrqtU | Jewish | Or Zarua is a setting of the Hebrew text from Psalm 97, “Light is sown for the righteous.” Dan Nichols, the composer, is a Jewish musician whose melodies have become an integral part of the spiritual and liturgical experience of Jewish communities throughout the country and beyond. The English adaptation was written by Rabbi Shefa Gold, a pioneer in the practice of ecstatic Jewish chant. She writes “I wrote this practice in honor of the winter solstice leading up to the passage of Chanukah. In preparation for this chant, recall the shining peak moments in your life that revealed to you a great joy or profound wisdom, moments of ecstasy or prophesy, delight or enchantment. Imagine those moments as seeds. Create an intention to plant those seeds and tend them with your loving attention as you grow a life of joy and light.” | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Ozi v’zmirot yah | Ozi v’Zimrat Yah Vayahi li lishuah (My Strength (balanced) with the Song of G!d will be my salvation.) | https://soundcloud.com/ifnotnow/ozi-vizimrat-yah-1 | (Psalm 118:14 and Exodus 15:2) | Rabbi Shefa Gold | Jewish | 66 | |||||||||||||||||||
58 | Peace Prayer Mandala | Om mani padme hum La illaha illlal Llah hu Shanti Shalom | file:///Users/administrator/Downloads/Peace%20Prayer%20Mandala.pdf | Sophia | Sophia | The English adaptation was written by Rabbi Shefa Gold, a pioneer in the practice of ecstatic Jewish chant. She writes “I wrote this practice in honor of the winter solstice leading up to the passage of Chanukah. In preparation for this chant, recall the shining peak moments in your life that revealed to you a great joy or profound wisdom, moments of ecstasy or prophesy, delight or enchantment. Imagine those moments as seeds. Create an intention to plant those seeds and tend them with your loving attention as you grow a life of joy and light.” | ||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Peace, Salaam, Shalom. | Peace, Salaam, Shalom. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdKW39TMNk | Emma's Revolution | Emma's Revolution | 132 | ||||||||||||||||||||
60 | People Gonna Rise | People gonna rise like the water gonna face this crisis now. I hear the voices of my great-granddaughters sayin' climate justice now. (OR sayin' shut this pipeline down.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xUEz-XAwc | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Put Your Roots Down | Put your roots down put your feet on the ground Can you hear what she says if you listen? 'Cause the sound of the river as it moves across the stone Is the same sound as the blood in your body as it moves across your bones | https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/put-your-roots-down | Molly Hartwell | Molly Hartwell | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Roots & Wings | Lately I've been thinking about roots and wings. Lately I've been thinking how I need these things. Roots in the ground to keep me strong, Wings on my back to fly on home. | Coco Love Alcorn | Coco Love Alcorn | 102 | |||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Sanctuary (original) | Lord Prepare me to be a sanctuary. Pure and holy, tried and true. With thanksgiving, I'll be a living, Sanctuary for you. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW8p0Se6cAk | Randy Scruggs & John Thompson | Randy Scruggs & John Thompson | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Sanctuary | Make us aware we are a sanctuary. Each made holy, loved right through. With thanksgiving, we are a living, Sanctuary anew. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3qI77itGvc | Dave Ruffin | Randy Scruggs & John Thompson | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Sing Our Own Song | We will fight for the right to be free. And we will build a new a society and we will sing, we will sing, we will sing, a new song, a new song. And we will be like the roots of a tree And we will sing in twenty-two part harmony And we will sing, we will sing, we will sing, A new song, a new song. | Adapted from UB40 | Second verse added by Ilana Streit | 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Solid as a Rock | Solid as a rock (Solid as a rock) Rooted like a tree (rooted like a tree) I am here! (I am here!) Standing strong! (standing strong!) In my rightful place (In my rightful place) "Standing strong" can be replaced by "rising strong." | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3t7pNUk-Es | 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Somebody's Hurting My Brother | Somebody's hurting my brother and it's gone on far too long. yes, it's gone on far too long I tell you, it's gone on far too long. and we won't be silent anymore. Somebody's hurting my neighbor... Somebody's poisening the water... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC4zXt7X1XE | Yara Allen | Yara Allen | Yara is the songleader who works closely with Rev. Barber | 126 | |||||||||||||||||||
68 | Step by Step the longest march | Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won. Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly, none. And together what we will, can be accomplished still. Drops of water turn the mill, singly none, singly none. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnRlNfpCt8o | Anon | Irish Folk Song | Labor | 126 | |||||||||||||||||||
69 | Sweet spirit, take over this place | Sweet Spirit (sweet Spirit) (2x) Take over this place (Take over this place) (2x) Healing Spirit.. Loving Spirit... Holy Spirit... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbtOSVHgqWQ | Phil Tarver | Phil Tarver | Christian | 72 | |||||||||||||||||||
70 | The People Will Rise | The people will rise (6x) Why are we in this situation that brings us down. Can't you see we are losing patience with oppression now. We have come to raise our voices for the broken down. You and me, we will stand together on common ground. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTpwJsBBU48 | Nelini Stamp | Nelini Stamp | Nelini Stamp @nelstamp with her original protest anthem “The People Will Rise” | Nelini is an electoral organizer and creative. Co-founder of the Resistance Revival Chorus @resistancerevivalchorus , director of strategy at the Working Families Party @workingfamilies and rabble rouser in the streets. | 96 | |||||||||||||||||||
71 | The Tide is Rising | The tide is rising and so are (3x) This is where we are called to be. The land is holy... The task is mighty... The storm is raging... The sun is shining... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk6mGMBo0KM | Rabbi Shoshana Friedman | Rabbi Shoshana Friedman | Rabbi Shoshana Friedman | Shoshana is a rabbi and climate activist in the Boston area. | 96 | ||||||||||||||||||
72 | There is a love | There is a love holding us. There is a love holding all that we love. There is a love holding all. We rest in this love. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlY7Yf-l8rU | Rev. Rebecca Parker | Beth Norton | 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||
73 | There is More Love Somewhere | There is more love somewhere (2x) I'm gonna keep on til I find it. There is more love somewhere. There is more hope... peace... joy... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbqceIK9nc | African American | 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | There will be Light | There will be, there will be, there will be a light. There will be a light. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVZX3FYXnMo | Ben Harper | Ben Harper | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||
75 | There's a Truth | There's a truth beyond our knowledge. There's compassion beyond our pain. There's a Spirit burning brighter. There's a Love to guide our way. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlHIQQ6J6QM&t=2s | Matt Meyer | Randy Scruggs & John Thompson | To the melody of "Sanctuary" | 80 | |||||||||||||||||||
76 | This Joy | This joy that I have the world didn't give to me this joy that I have the world didn't give to me oh this joy that I have the world didn't give to me the world didn't give it the world can't take it away oh yeah This love... This peace... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbDPwA09Bc | Shirley Caesar | Shirley Caesar | Gospel | 72 | |||||||||||||||||||
77 | Those who sow | Those who sow, who sow in tears, will reap, will reap in joy. | https://soundcloud.com/user-478813445/those-who-sew | Psalm 126:5 | Debbie Friedman | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Tomorrow | There will be better days Let the wave wash over me (2x) I am already under. Let the wave wash over me | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L4Ojl8bVdc | Miner | Miner | 116 | ||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Tugboat and Barge | Tralalala... ay, oooh. oooh, ay... | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262/walk-beside-me?in=matt-meyer-161434262/sets/acapella-songs-for-community-and-justice | Same melody as "Walk Beside Me" and is conencted to Lo Yisa Goy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Ubi Caritas | Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9e_QO1ATho | #1048, Singing the Journey Ubi caritas are the opening words of a Roman Catholic hymn. The traditional music was set sometime between the fourth and tenth centuries, though some scholars believe the text dates from early Christian gatherings before the formalization of the Mass. The hymn is usually sung at Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and on Holy Thursday evening at the Mass of the Lord's Supper. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Walk Beside Me | Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and hold my hand and together we'll be walking in the path of Hashem. | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Same melody as "Tugboat and Barge" | 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Walking with you | Walking, walking with you, walking with you is my prayer. Singing... Sharing... Being... | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Burns Stanfield | Burns Stanfield | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Water Heal (The River) | Water heal my body, water heal my soul. When I go down, down to the water, by the water I feel whole. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7L_hA0ideM | Coco Love Alcorn | Coco Love Alcorn | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||
84 | We Are Building Up a New World | We are building up a new world (3x) Builders must be strong Courage, sisters don’t get weary Courage, brothers don’t get weary Courage, people don’t get weary Though the way be long Bright shine, give God glory (3x) Children of the Light | https://soundcloud.com/noenemies/building-up-a-new-world-07dec2014 | Vincent Harding | Traditional African American | These are new lyrics to an old spiritual, written by Vincent Harding a veteran civil rights organizer. | ||||||||||||||||||||
85 | We are rising up like a Phoenix | We are rising up like a phoenix from the fire, so siblings in spirit spread your wings and fly higher. We are rising up (2x) | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Pagan?? | Seems to be an adaptation of "We Are Opening Up in Sweet Surrender." The earliest recording I could find was in 1993, on the album "Shamanic Songs and Ritual Chants" by Flight of the Hawk. I also saw places where the artist of the song was referred to as Victoria McCarthy. I'm not 100% sure if Flight of the Hawk and Victoria McCarthy are the same person or not, but it seems like they might be. It's also not clear to me if they actually wrote the song or just recorded what was already a community chant. -Aria Curtis | |||||||||||||||||||||
86 | We are the Ones | We are the ones we've been waiting for | https://soundcloud.com/matt-meyer-161434262 | Bernice Johnson Reagon | Bernice Johnson Reagon | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||
87 | We Can't Be SIlent | We can't be silent while our friends are gunned now. That's why we gotta say no to police violence til we shake the whole town. So sing it with me, hey yo! I am sleeping giant. There is a riot in my town. I am sleeping giant. There is a riot in my town. | https://soundcloud.com/noenemies/we-cant-be-silent-sleeping-giant-07dec14 | "i am a sleeping giant" taken from Suzi Q "Sleeping Giant "We can't be silent" melody from Azaelia Banks "212" w words by J. Laurie | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | We Rise | We rise... humbled hearted Rise... won't be divided Rise... with spirit to guide us Rise! (Chorus) In hope, in prayer, we find ourselves here In hope, in prayer, we're right here! We rise... all of the children Rise... elders with wisdom Rise... ancestors surround us Rise! (chorus) We rise... up from the wreckage Rise...with tears and with courage Rise... fighting for life Rise! (chorus and repeat verse 1) | https://soundcloud.com/ifnotnow/we-rise | Batya Levine | Batya Levine | by Batya Levine with collaborative support from Nom Lerman, both contemporary Jewish songwriters and IfNotNow members. This song was inspired by the powerful, prayerful resistance they witnessed and experienced at Standing Rock. This song is an attempt to remember and to hold that model of resistance in our hearts and in our minds. | 80 | |||||||||||||||||||
89 | We Shall Be Known | We shall be known by the company we keep, by the ones you circle round to tend these fires. We shall be known by the ones you 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. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwgwIyyZfvk | Mamuse | Mamuse | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||
90 | We Shall Come Together Singing | How shall we come together? We shall come together singing. When shall we come together? We shall come together now. How shall we hold the suffering... How shall we light the darkness... How shall we rise above it | https://songsforthegreatturning.net/community/we-shall-come-together-singing | Maggie Wheeler | Maggie Wheeler | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | What We Need is Here | What we need is here | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzVZ1UyrX2Q | Amy McCreath | Amy McCreath | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
92 | What would you do with a thieving bankster | What would you do with a theiving bankster (3X) early in the morning. way-hey and up she rises (3) justice in the morning. Lock him in a vault until he's honest... Take your money to a credit union... Get together build a co-op movement... Get out the broom and clean up wall st... That's what you do with a theiving bankster... | Matt Meyer | "Drunken sailor" melody | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | When the world is sick | When the world is sick, can't no one be well, but I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong. | https://soundcloud.com/ifnotnow/when-the-world-is-sick-1 | Silver Mount Zion Orchestra | Silver Mount Zion Orchestra | 104 | ||||||||||||||||||||
94 | When You Were Born | When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die The world cries and you rejoice. | https://thebirdsings.com/when-you-were-born/ | Kabir | Jody Healy | The website says these words are from a "Navajo Prayer" but I also them credited to Kabir in other place. | 52 | |||||||||||||||||||
95 | Where do we come from | Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Where do we come from? Mystery, mystery, life is a riddle and a mystery. | Paul Gaugain | Brian Tate | 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Where you go I will Beloved | Where you go I will go Beloved, where you go I will go. (2x) For your people are my people, your people are mine. Your people are my people, your divine, my divine | http://www.shoshanajedwab.com/whereyougosingle | Shoshana Jedwab | Shoshana Jedwab | Jewish | Ruth said this to Naomi Ruth (1:16) | |||||||||||||||||||
97 | Which Side Are You On | Which side are you on? (2x) Which side are you on, my people, which side are you on? Malcom X was a freedom fighter and he taught us how to fight And we're gonna fight all day and night until we get it right. Ella Baker was a freedom fighter... Anne Braden... Grace Lee Boggs... Fannie Lou Hamer... (other movement ancestors) | https://denisesullivan.com/2015/01/11/were-on-the-freedom-side/ | Adapted from Florence Reece | Adapted from Florence Reece | Labor and BLM | ||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Why, why worry when you can pray. | Why, why worry when you can pray. (2x) Pray to the most high, pray to the mothers and fathers (old ancestors) Pray to the most high. Pray for them to watch over. Why, why worry when you can pray. Why, why worry when you can sing... ...dance... ...march... | https://soundcloud.com/ifnotnow/why-why-worry-1 | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Yonder Come Day | Yonder come day, day is breaking. Sun is a risin', oh my soul. Yonder come day, day is breaking. Sun is a risin', in my soul. | Trad. African American | A Watch Night song, traditional to African American services held on New Year's eve. They date back to "Freedom's Eve," in 1863 when the Emancipation Proclaimation went into effect on New Year's day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | There's a River | There’s a river flowin’ in my soul. (2x) And it’s telling me that I’m somebody There’s a river flowin’ in my soul. There’s a river flowin’ in my heart… There’s a river flowin’ in my mind.. | Faya Ora Rose Tourè | Faya Ora Rose Tourè | African-American | Check out Faya Ora Rose Toure, she's badass. First black woman judge in Alabama, playwright, song writer, and founder of numerous civil rights organizations. | 120 |