Songs from the CD "Circle of Women"
"Circle of Women" © 1997 EarthBeat!
http://www.earthbeatrecords.com/
Here are the words to the songs I like best to sing from this album. I included the basic arrangements, and left out the parts when the arrangements started getting fancy, and left out the songs I'm not interesting in singing.
I included the words just as they are sung because it is confusing to read words different from the music. Everybody uses their right to be creative, and almost always each song book and recording use slightly different lyrics. So for now in my small library, each CD will have its own set of lyrics, and each song circle will have its own set of lyrics because each community has its own version of the best lyrics.
Earth my body, Water my blood, Air my breath, And fire my spirit.
Traditional Shaker Hymn
O' ho the pretty chain that binds us all together O' ho it's links are love that's wrought by faithful labor And while this love we do maintain our spirits flow together Within this chain we will remain Its linked in pretty mothers
Written by I-cheie © I-cheie Greentree
Humble yourself, In the sight of your sister
Bend down low and humble yourself, In the sight of your brother
We shall lift each other up, Higher and higher We shall lift each other up
Humble yourself, In the sight of the children, Bend down low and humble yourself, In the sight of our children, We gota know what they know, ya
We shall lift each other up, Higher and higher We shall lift each other up
Humble yourself in the sight of love, Bend down low and Humble yourself in the sight of Jah Love and Let ya love light show and
We shall lift each other up, Higher and higher We shall lift each other up
Ancient Mother I hear you calling Ancient Mother I hear your song Ancient Mother I hear your laughter Ancient Mother I taste your tears
Mother of darkness, Mother of light Earth beneath us, soul in flight Songs of love and love of life Guide us to our hearts
We all come from the Goddess And to her we shall return Like a drop of rain Flowing to the ocean
Traditional Celtic
O she will bring the buds in the spring and laugh among the flowers In the summer's heat her kisses are sweet she sings in leafy bowers She cuts the cane and gathers the grain when leaves of fall surround her Her bones grow old in wintery cold she wraps her cloak around her
Written by Alice Di Micele © 1988 Alice Di Micele/Alice Otter Music, BMI
Celebrate the rain fallin' down Celebrate the green trees growin' from the ground Celebrate the new paradise we've found Celebrate the rain fallin' down
Written by Lisa Thiel © 1984 Lisa Thiel
The spirit of the plants has come to me in the form of a beautiful dancing green woman The spirit of the plants has come to me in the form of a beautiful dancing green woman
Her eyes fill me with peace, her dance fills me with peace Her eyes fill me with peace, her dance fills me with peace
The spirit of the plants has come to me and has blessed me with great peace The spirit of the plants has come to me and has blessed me with great peace
Her eyes fill me with peace, her dance fills me with peace Her eyes fill me with peace, her dance fills me with peace
Written by Windsong © Dianne Martin (Windsong)
Mother I feel you under my feet, Mother I hear your heartbeat
Heya heya heya Ya heya heya heya ho Heya heya heya heya heya ho
Mother I hear you in the river's song, Eternal waters flowing on and on
Heya...
Father I see you when the eagle flies, Flight of the spirit's gonnna take us higher
Heya...
May the circle be open but unbroken May the love of the goddess be ever in your heart Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again
Blessed be, blessed be, blessed be
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