Singing Like Pete Seeger Liked
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My Rainbow Race – p 9 6 Light Is Returning Of Time and Rivers Flowing – p 3 Three Little Birds Oh Sacred World – p 2 Blessed Be the Nation Old Devil Time – p 7 7 Quite Early Morning Quite Early Morning – p 7 Old Devil Time Sailing Down My Golden River – p 4 Blue Skies Sailing Up My Dirty Stream – p 3 She Moved Through The Fair – p 2 8 Where Have All the Flowers Gone Step by Step – p 2 Little Boxes The Voice of Pete – p15 How Can I Keep From Singing The Water is Wide – p 3 9 My Rainbow Race Three Little Birds – p 6 Golden Thread To Everyone in All the World – p 2 10 I Wish I Knew To My Old Brown Earth – p 3 Do It Now Turn! Turn! Turn! – p 5 11 Get Up and Go We Sing Out – p 12 12 You’ll Sing to Me Too Well May The World Go – p13 We Sing Out What Did You Learn In School Today – p 13 13 Well May the World Go Where Have All The Flowers Gone – p 8 What Did You Learn in School Today? You’ll Sing To Me Too – p12 14 Bring ‘Em Home From Way Up Here 15 God Bless the Grass The Voice of Pete 16 Hootenanny! Good songs to sing any time! " " " " ,0%/59.(,%2,.),% )(0"0(1)232I"03"A.3283"5(",2&3"6(1"7B33"8" " 97"02BI"(7"9253I"(7"C3.7:C9"4B13.56/"";)2":)"59:C"C,2.."4(B)3BI"03" " ,.2)5"2"5:)6"C33/"")26":5"8B(0":)"332156I"5("C92,3"593"7243"(7"8B332N" " 99"C24B32"0(B.2I")(0"0(1)232I"03"A.3283"5(",2&3"6(1"7B33N" " " " " TO EVERYONE IN ALL THE WORLD i reach my hand, i shake their hand. " To everyone in all the world I shake my hand like this " All, all together, the whole wide world around, " I may not know your lingo, but I can say “By jingo, No matter where you live, we can shake hands!” 9122I%"E%,4P%-3%0F2482 There's a sister by my side walking When you can't go on any longer, There's a voice within me talking, Take the hand, hand of your brother, There's a voice, within me saying, Every victory brings another, Carry it on, carry it on. Carry on, carry it on. Carry on, carry it on! They will tell their empty stories, Send their dogs to bite our bodies, They will lock us up in prison, Repeat 1st Verse Carry on, carry it on. Carry it on, carry it on. SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR My young love came to me; she moved through the fair So softly she wandered, both here and there And she laid her hand on me, and this she did say: It will not be long, long ‘til our wedding day My young love came to me, she softly came in " So softly she came that her feet made no din Then she made her way homeward, with one star awake " Like the swan in the evening moves over the lake [as sung and played on whistle by Pete Seeger on Folkways LOVE SONGS FOR FRIENDS AND FOES, 1956] STEP BY STEP the longest march, can be won, can be won Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none And by union what we will, can be accomplished still Drops of water turn the mill, singly none, singly none From the constitution of the American Miners Union c. 1860. Traditional Irish melody . % T% SAILING UP MY DIRTY STREAM Still I love it and I’ll keep the dream That some day, though maybe not this year My Hudson River will once again run clear. OF TIME AND RIVERS FLOWING The seasons make a song She starts high in the mountains of the north And we who live beside her Crystal clear and icy trickles forth Still try to sing along With just a few floating wrappers of chewing gum Of rivers, fish, and men Dropped by some hikers to warn of things to come. And the season still a-coming At Glens Falls, five thousand honest hands When she’ll run clear again. Work at the Consolidated Paper Plant Five million gallons of waste a day, The circles of the planets Why should we do it any other way? The circles of the moon The circles of the atoms Down the valley one million toilet chains All play a marching tune Find my Hudson so convenient place to drain And we who would join in And each little city says, “Who, me? Can stand aside no longer Do you think that sewage plants come free?” Not let us all begin. *They say out on the ocean, water’s clear But we live downstream, on the river here Words by Pete Seeger (1973) Half way between the mountains and the sea, Music: “Lo How a Rose Ere Blooming” Tacking to and fro, this thought returns to me: Sailing up my dirty stream Still I love it; and I’ll dream: That some day, though maybe not this year My Hudson River AND my country will run clear. *Last lines edited RH 2017 THE WATER IS WIDE , I can’t cross o’er/and neither have I wings to fly Give us a boat that’s meant for two/and both shall row, my love and I. A ship there is and she sails the seas/She’s laden deep, as deep can be But not so deep as the love I’m in/I know not if I sink or swim. Oh love is handsome and love is kind/gay as a jewel when first it’s new Love grows old and waxes bold/and lights my life like morning dew*. *Last line changed by what Pete called “the folk process.” TO MY OLD BROWN EARTH Guard well our human chain, And to my old blue sky Watch well you keep it strong, I'll now give these last few As long as sun will shine. molecules of "I." And this our home, And you who sing, Keep pure and sweet and green, And you who stand nearby, For now I'm yours I do charge you not to cry. And you are also mine. " " A% SAILING DOWN MY GOLDEN RIVER Life to raise my sons and daughters Sun and water all my own Golden sparkles in the foam Yet I was never alone . And I was not far from home . Sun and water, old life givers Sailing down this winding highway I'll have them where e'er I roam Travelers from near and far And I was not far from home . Yet I was never alone . Sunlight glancing on the water Exploring all the little by-ways Life and death are all my own Sighting all the distant stars Yet I was never alone . And I was not far from home . (1971) WELL MAY THE WORLD GO The world go, the world go Well may the world go, when I'm far away. Well may the skiers turn. the swimmers churn, the lovers burn Peace may the generals learn, when I'm far away. Well may the… Sweet may the fiddle sound, the banjo play the old hoe down Dancers swing round and round, when I'm far away. Well may the… (added verse, RH] Yummy may the butter be, apples fallen from the tree Babies bouncing on your knee, when I’m far away. Well may the… Fresh may the breezes blow, clear may the streams flow, Blue above, green below, when I'm far away. Well may the… IF I HAD A HAMMER (changed to sing “love between my sisters and my brothers”) If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning I’d hammer in the evening, all over this land I’d hammer out Danger, I’d hammer out a Warning, I’d hammer out Love between my Sisters and my Brothers All over this land. If I had a bell, I’d ring it… I’d ring out danger…,warning…,love…. If I had a song, I’d sing it… I’d sing out danger...,warning...,love…. Well I have a hammer, and I have a bell, and I have a song… It’s the hammer of Justice, the bell of Freedom, the song about the Love… Now we have our hammers, and we have our bells, and we have our songs to sing…. They’re the hammers of Justice, the bells of Freedom, The songs about the Love between our Sisters and our Brothers All over this land! 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I swear it's not too late! A time to cast away stones To everything - turn, turn, turn A time to gather stones together There is a season - turn, turn, turn To everything - turn, turn, turn And a time to every purpose under heaven There is a season - turn, turn, turn " " C% LIGHT IS RETURNING THREE LITTLE BIRDS -Bob Marley Even though this is the darkest hour Don't worry, about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.