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Songs Alphabetically

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J-K – L – M – N – O – P-Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X-Y-Z

A

• Aad Guray – Kundalini Yoga Mantra
• Abiyo Abayo – Aboriginal Australian
• Abre La Puerta – Glen Phillips
• Adios Amigos – a camp song learned in Wales
• Aiyyo (Osei Iyyo) – Ghana
• All About My Plan (Genuine Grief) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• All I Gotta Do/Heart Open Wide – Jane Green and Karly Loveling; arr Kaitie Ty Warren
• All One Heart – Melanie DeMore
• All Shall Be Well (Force of Love) – Penny Stone, Julian of Norwich
• All Together – Ida Rotto
• Amahoro – Rwanda
• Amazing Grace – John Newton; arrangement by Steven Hatfield, Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell, and Maggie Wheeler
• Ancestor Sky People – Harmony Grisman, words by Misha Saez
• Angel Wash – Aimeé Ringle, Mia (Aimee) Kelly, Saphir Lewis, Rafe Pearlman
• Arriving – Deborah Leeds
• Auld Lange Syne – Scots/English, original melody; words Robert Burns, Arr. Melanie Hayes
• Autumn Light – Katie Sontag

B

• Bambelela – the JL Kwane Memorial Church community, South Africa
• Be Like Water – Sara Stutz
• Be Open – Debbie Nargi-Brown
• Be Peace – Deborah Leeds
• Because You Are You, I Am Me – Kaitie Ty Warren
• (M)Bele Mama – 3-4 part round from Camaroon
• Belong – Mo Washburn
• Bismillah – Arabic Round, traditional words, melody creator unknown
• Breathe Deep – Sara Stutz
• (Breathe In/Breathe Out) Meditation on Breathing – Sarah Dan Jones
• Buds of Spring – Glenn Turner and Hope Athearn
• By Breath – Sara Thomsen, arr. Denis Donnelly
• By Your Side – Deborah Leeds

C

• Catch and Release – Deborah Leeds
• Chant to Nana – Heather Houston (Yoruba tradition)
• Cherry Tomato – Sara Thomsen, arr. Kaitie Ty Warren
• Cho Kurima Woye – Zimbabwe
• Circles of Protection – Heather Houston
• Come Come Come (Little Piece of Light) – Jes Karper
• Come, Come, Whoever You Are – from Coleman Barks’ translation of Rumi
• Community Song (Because You Are You, I Am Me) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Contemplation Chant – Sophia Songhealer
• Cost of Freedom – Stephen Stills, arranged by Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell, rearranged by Kaitie Ty Warren
• Courage, My Love – Lydia Violet Harutoonian

D

• Dark Times – Alexandra Blakely (and Bertolt Brecht)
• Djun Djun – Karen Porkka
• Do The Best You Can – Laurence Cole (with words from Maya Angelou)
• Do Better – Dodie Whitaker (with words from Maya Angelou)
• Dona Nobis Pacem – Latin text from the Agnus Dei
• Don’t Go Yet – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Don’t Let The Light Go Out/We’re Not in Control (Mikey Mashup) – Mashup by Kaitie Ty Warren from two Mikey Pauker songs
• Dosewallips River Love Song – Gretchen Sleicher
• Down to the Well – Sarina Partridge

E

• E Malama – Bryan Kessler, Sharee Anderson, Mark Anderson (Hawaiian, English, hula style movements)
• Earth My Body/Tierra Mi Cuerpo – Unknown/Lili Worona
• Ease Up The Reins – Adham Rolland
• Eel River – Meredith Buck (both Vanessa Richards’ arrangement and the original)
• Even When I Make Mistakes – Earth Practice
• Evening Rise – Unknown
• Every Fall – Earth Practice
• Everything is Changing – Kaitie Ty Warren

F

• Feel a Lot Better (When I Sing) – Bill Henderson, arr. Denis Donnelly
• Friends – Moira Smiley
• For Our Homes – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Force of Love (All Shall Be Well) – Penny Stone, Julian of Norwich

G

• Gaia (A New Day Is Here)– Chloe Goodchild
• Gam Ganesha – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Gather Your Courage – Coco Love Alcorn/The Courage Collective
• Get It Done – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Genuine Grief (All About My Plan) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Gently Gentling – Deborah Leeds
• Go Singing – Molly Hartwell
• Going Up On The Mountain – Jody Stecher
• Gonna Work On Justice – Eileen Hazel
• Goodnight, Bunnies – Bunny Oreo, David Mansfield, Kaitie Ty Warren
• Grace Lives – Deborah Leeds
• Grammah Easter’s Lullaby – Pura Fe
• Guru Mantra – Kaitie Ty Warren (Sanskrit, the Guru Maha Mantra)

H

• Happy Birthday – Tom Chapin (Franz Lehar)
• Hangaiwa – Shona language, Zimbabwe
• Heart Wide Open – Lea Morris
• Hearts and Voices – Sara Stutz
• Helele Mama – Zulu language, South Africa Mbube song, arr. Emile Hassan Dyer
• Here is My Home – Si Kahn
• High Desert – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Hine Ma Tov – Traditional Hebrew Round
• Hineini (Here I Am) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Hope Lingers On – Lissa Schneckenburger of Low Lily
• How’s About – Ma Muse
• How Can I Know – Laura Sandage
• How You Gonna Be? – Ilana Lowe
• How Lucky Are We – Sara Stutz
• How Shall We Come Together – Maggie Wheeler, arr. Kaitie Ty Warren
• How You Gonna Be – Iliana Lowe
• Humble (Yourself) – Chhaya I-chèle, AKA I-chele Greentree
• Humbly – Laurence Cole
• The Hundred of Bunnies – Bunny Oreo, arr. David Mansfield and Kaitie Ty Warren

I

• I Am Me – Paul Barton
• I Can Be Peace – Shawna Carol
• I Celebrate Me – Laurie Olson
• I Feel Like Going On – Bishop Andre Woods
• I Have Not Come Here Alone – Peace Poets
• I Release Control – Alexa Sunshine Rose
• I Rise Up – Beautiful Chorus
• I Wanna Dance With You – Kaitie Ty Warren
• I Wanna Listen – Juliana Zarzycki
• I Wonder (How Easy) – Heather Houston
• If I Say Yes – Joe Crookston
• I’m Letting Go – Karly Loveling
• I’m Still Alive – Kaitie Ty Warren
• In The Light Of Love – Deva Premal and Miten, arr. Brian Hoover
• In This Circle – Joan McMillan
• In This Heart – Sinéad O’Connor, arr. Denis Donnelly
• Inner Garden – Sara Stutz, Rosmerry Wahtola Trommer
• (Resilient Flame)/Invincible Summer – Samara Jade
• Invisible Threads – Emma Mutter
• It Begins (Morning Time/Choir Time) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• It’s In Every One of Us – David Pomeranz
• It Is Time To Sleep – Carolyn Knight
• It’s Okay (If You’re Not Okay) – Kira Seto
• It’s the Best (Singing with You) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• It’s Up To Me – Faye Adinda

J

• Jewels – Barbara McAfee
• Jikeleza/Throw Catch – South African, by Sikhumbuzo Tshona, arr. by Sharon Durant

K

• Keep On Moving Forward – Pat Humphries
• Keep Walking – Lyndsey Scott
• Keep Your Mind on Love – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Kinder – Copper Wimmin
• (Kude Ku Kuru) Meli E – John Bowker

L

• Late Sunshine – Emma Mutter
• Laula – Estonian, traditional
• Lead With Love – Melanie DeMore
• Let It Be Okay (Tuesday) – Kaitie T Warren
• Let It Go – Michael Leunig’s words (and unknown composer)
• Let Me Call You Sweetheart – Leo Friedman and Beth Slater Whitson
• Let the Way Be Open – Abby Spinner McBride
• Let Us See the Beauty – Laurence Cole, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
• Lift Me Up – Karly Loveling
• Light and Darkness – unknown
• Lingmarra – Aboriginal Australian (arr. Balang T.E. Lewis)
• Listen To Your Heart – Susie Ro Prater
• Long Time Traveler – Elder Edmund Dumas (arr. Wailin’ Jennys)
• Loosen – Aly Halpert
• Lost Words Blessing – Spell Songs
• Love Is Love Is Love Is Love – Abbie Betinis
• Love Is The Power – Helen Yeomans
• Love Flows In – Roberta Kirn
• Love Like Water – Heather Pierson
• Love/Life (God) Prepare Me – Unknown
• Love Mashup – Deborah Leeds

M

• Mama’s Lament (What Do I Do With This Hour?) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• May I Be an Instrument of Peace – the St. Francis Prayer
• May It Be – Eithne ni Bhraonain (Enya), Nicky Ryan, and Roma Ryan, arr. Denis Donnelly
• May There Always Be Sunshine/Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu – Mashup arr. by Kaitie Ty Warren
• May This Be an Opening – Gretchen Sleicher
• Mbele Mama – 3-4 part round, Camaroon
• Meditation on Breathing (Breathe In/Breathe Out) – Sarah Dan Jones
• Meli E (Kude Ku Kuru) – John Bowker in the Bata/Mbuti style
• Mere Gurudev – arr. Krishna Das
• Mochinumba – Nigeria
• The Monday Morning Song – Heather Houston
• (Monument to Courage) now known as Courage, My Love – Lydia Violet Harutoonian
• Move On – Karly Loveling
• My Eyes Are Opened – Kirsty Martin, using words by e.e. cummings
• My Grandfather (Where the Water Goes) – Kaitie Ty Warren

N

• Nanila – Georgian Folk Song
• New Day Rising – Sara Stutz
• Ning Yeda – Dagbani language, northern Ghana
• Nissa Nissa – Seneca Nation, Grandmother Moon
• Not Mine To Control – Kaitie Ty Warren

O

• O Water – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Ocean Chant – Lizzie Karr, arr. Kaitie Ty Warren
• Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu – Mosh Ben-Ari
• Oh River – Karisha Longaker (Ma Muse)
• Old Bone Mother – Eileen Hazel
• Old Coat – Paul Kaplan
• Ole O – A call to work song from Ghana
• Om Ah Hum – Tibetan Buddhist, taught to us by Evelie Delfino Såles Posch
• One By One – Michael Stillwater
• One More Step – Joyce Poley
• One More Time – Rev. James Moore (adapted by Tony Backhouse)
• One Thing – Kele Nitoto
• One Village – Maggie Wheeler
• One Voice – The Wailin’ Jennys
• Oseh Shalom – Debbie Friedman
• Osei Iayyo (Aiyyo) – Prayer to the Rising Sun from Ghana
• Owl Moon – Bruce O’Brien, using words by Jane Yolen
• Oxygen – Rev. Wendy Luella Perkins, arranged by Lea Morris

P

• Pigogo – South Africa
• Power of Kindness – MaMuse
• Promise Me – Kaitie Ty Warren
• The Protection March – Kaitie Ty Warren and Sara Stutz, inspired by Melanie DeMore
• Put Down Your Worries – Sway/Elijah Lee Smith and the CCLT 2023 Cohort

Q

• (What a) Queer Bird – unknown (likely from the U.S.)

R

• The Rain Song – Mark Growden
• Raise Up Your Words – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Redraw the Boundaries – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Regret (Delete/Believe) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Resilient Flame/Invincible Summer – Samara Jade
• (Sometimes Plants:) Rest and Rise – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Rest, Child – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Rising Strong – Heather Houston
• The River – Coco Love Alcorn
• River, Roll It Away – Shireen Amini
• Road Block – Debbie Nargi-Brown
• The Road is Calling – unknown

S

• Safe Here – Kaitie Ty Warren and Amanda West
• Safely Arrive – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Saiwela – Limpopo region
• Sanctuary – Sara Stutz
• Sansa Kroma – Akan language, Ghana
• Savoleyo – Laboratorium Piesni
• Senzenina – South African anti‐apartheid folk song
• Senwa De Dende – Ghana
• Share the Journey – Katie Sontag
• Shosholoza – South African, Zimbabwe (and Gumboot Dance inspired by Maggie Wheeler’s choreography)
• Shine On – Terry Garthwaite
• Simple Praise of Trees – Gretchen Sleicher
• Sing About It – The Wood Brothers
• Slow Down – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Soak It Up – Sara Stutz
• Sometimes Plants: Rest and Rise – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Somewhere to Begin – T.R. Ritchie
• Song Cycle (Softer Now) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Sporing Song – The People’s Echo
• Stand in that River – Moira Smiley
• Standing Stone – Melanie DeMore
• Stay With My Bones – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Still, Small Voice – Sara Stutz
• Što Mi E Milo – Macedonian, Bulgarian Folk Song
• The Storm – Lotus Dickey, arr. and body rhythms by Evie Laden
• Strand by Strand – Ma Muse
• Summons – Ahlay Blakely, based on a poem by Aurora Levins Morales
• Sun Arise – Rolf Harris
• Surrender (Stop Struggling) – Kaitie Ty Warren

T

• T’Dumela/We Are One – Brian Abrahams/Roxane Smith
• Tending the Spark – Heather Houston, body rhythms by Kaitie Ty Warren
• Thank You Land – Valerie Osborne with Juliana Murphy
• Thank You, Songs – Kaitie Ty Warren
• This (Body) – Becky Reardon
• This Fire – Laurence Cole
• This is the End of the Day (Everyone You Love is Okay) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• This is Home – Sophia Efthimiou
• This is Temporary – Amanda West
• Thula Baba – a South African Lullaby
• Thuli Thuli – Namibia, Botswana
• (It Is) Time to Sleep – Carolyn Knight
• Time Will Tell – Kaitie Ty Warren
• To Be Known – Ilana Lowe
• To Call Myself Beloved – Kate Munger, using words by Raymond Carver
• Together Mashup – Kaitie Ty Warren (Multiple Artists)
• Trees Grow Slow – Lawrence Cole
• Tree Love Song (Branch, Tree, Lungs, Heart) – Sara Stutz
• Tue Tue – Ghana (Akan)
• (Tuesday) Let It Be Okay – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Turn the World Around – Harry Belafonte
• Two Candles Bright (Holding Song/I Don’t Know If I Can Hold This Alone) – Ian Carrick
• Two Steps Forward, One Step Back – Sara Stutz

U

• Uyai Mose – Alexander Gondo (Shona, Zimbabwe)

V

• Valentine – Emma Mutter
• Vamudara – a Shona Shangara Story Song (Zimbabwe)

W

• Walk a Mile – Rebecca Spalding
• Walk With Me – Maggie Wheeler
• Watch Over Them (Eric’s Song) – Sara Stutz
• (O) Water – Kaitie Ty Warren and Nik Warren
• Water is Life (Mni Wiconi) – Sara Thomsen
• The Way – Lyndsey Scott
• We Are Created by Sound – Alexa Sunshine Rose
• We Are Here (Chant) – Fox Rhett, Vadan Ritter, Kaitie Ty Warren, Arasa Maram, Sara Stutz
• We Are Here In Our Bodies – Jenn Turner
• We Are The Light (Winter Song) – Ellen Rockne
• We Shall Be Known – Karisha Longakre, arr. Ma Muse
• Weaving Our Lives – Alexa Sunshine Rose
• Welcome In – Sarina Partridge
• Well Look At That! (You’re Beautiful) – Sara Stutz
• What A Gift – Angela Gabriel
• What a Queer Bird – unknown, USA 1920s
• What a Wonder – Sara Stutz
• What Have We Done – Kaitie Ty Warren
• When I Need You – Sara Stutz
• Winds of the West – Ayla Nereo
• Windy Weather (Duck and Cover) – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Worlds End – Kaitie Ty Warren
• Woyaya (We Are Going/We Keep Going) – Osibisa, Annie Masembe, with ASL

X

Y

• Yemaya Asesu – Yoruba Tradition (West Africa), arr. Brian Tate
• You Are So Loved – Heather Houston
• You Belong Here – Heather Houston

Z

• Zidele Amathambo – Bruce Knight (Zulu, Swahili)

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