DOCSLIB.ORG

DPM-Songbook.Pdf

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
DPM-Songbook.Pdf GAYATRI M ANTRA OM NAMO DEVA PREMAL & MITEN: SUNRISE (The Essence/ Satsang/ More than Music) (Satsang) (The Essence, More than Music) (Capo 5th fret) MANTRAS, SONGS & CHANTS Am E Om bhur bhuvaha svaha Sunrise Am E7 Am/G A E Hari om namo narayana Tat savitur varenyam Over the mountain E7 E A Om namo narayana “The word mantra is untranslatable in English, in F Spreading your light Dm Am any Western language, but its meaning, its Bhargo devasya dhimahi Hari om namo narayana significance, can be explained to you. A mantra is Dm Gsus G E-B7 Dm Am not just something to chant. It is not chanting. A Dhiyo yonah prachodayat Over the land Hari om namo narayana mantra is something to let sink deep in your being, E just as roots go deep into the earth. The deeper the Sunrise Praise to the source of all things. It is due roots go into the earth, the higher the tree will go A E Am E7 Am to you that we attain true happiness on all into the sky. Another new morning Hari om namo narayana planes. It is due to your transcendent A mantra is something like a seed to be allowed to A Am E7 Am nature that you are being worshipped and go deep into your being so that it can send its roots We celebrate Hari om namo narayana adored. Ignite us with your all pervading E7 to the sources of your life and finally to the B7 E light. Om namo narayana universal life. Then its branches, its foliage will go We are the new man (Miten/Deva Premal) Dm Am high into the sky, and when the right time comes, (Miten) Hari om namo narayana when the spring comes, it will be filled with Dm Am thousands of flowers.$ Hari om namo narayana -Osho- I bow down to the divine. SALAAM MEVLANA (Nilash Gujarati) YA AZIM (capo 5th fret) WENDEY A (Global Heart Native Soul) Am G Am D Salaam mevlana salaam D A Wendeya ho Am G Am Ya azim, ya azim D Salaam mevlana salaam G Wendeya ho SHIMA F El allah hoo D (The Essence) Salaam mevlana D Wendeya, wendeya Am El allah hoo D Salaam mevlana Dm Dm A Ho, ho, ho, ho, heyo, heyo Am G Am Shima shima shima shima Allah hoo D A D Salaam mevlana salaam Dm G D Ya, ya, ya Shima shima Hallelu-jah May peace be with you, beloved. C Dm Celebration of the new morning. (Sufi) Shi- maya How beautifully does god reveal himself (Cherokee) through you. (Sufi) Shima means love. (Hopi) 1 1 2 1 YEMAYA ASSESSU OM NAMAH SHIVA IB-ACHÈ IDE WERE WERE (The Essence / Satsang) (Trusting The Silence) (Love is Space) G (Capo 2nd fret) A Bm Om namah shiva A Bm Em D Yemaya Assessu G C-G-D Ahhh......ib-aché, Ide were were nita ochun D E A Om namah shiva Bm Cmaj7 Assessu yemaya Ib-acheo, A Bm Ide were were Bm Yemaya olodo G Em D Ib-bababa, D E A Om namah shiva Ide were were nita ochun A Olodo yemaya C D G Cmaj7 Shiva om namah Ib-bayeye Ide were were nita ya A celebration of the moment when the river E A D meets the ocean. I honor the divine in you. Ib-aché Ocha kiniba nita ochun (Robert Gass) Yemaya is the godess of the ocean and the G C mother of all goddesses. Hail to the gifts. Cheke cheke cheke (Yoruba, Africa) Hail to the gift of myself. D Hail to the gift of mother earth. Nita ya and father sky. Bm B7 (Africa) Ide were were WICHI TI TI "...Everybody is musical. Music is part of our Ochun is the goddess of love, Em life on Earth. If you don’t sing, because you chant which speaks about a necklace Wichi ti ti timorai think you can’t sing, it doesn’t make the which is a symbol of the initiation into Em SHREE RAM singer in you smaller. It just means you are love. Horanika, horanika (Trusting The Silence) not honouring your talent...$ Em (Yoruba, West Africa) -Aborigenes of Australia- Hey ney, hey ney D D Em Shree ram jai ram No aye D A BISMILLA H Jai jai ram om (Capo 5th fret) Em FROM YOU I RECEIVE Water, water spirits, G F#m Em Shree ram jai ram Am E7 Am Em-A D Bismillah erachman erachim (2x) C F Spinning round my head Jai jai ram om C B7 Em From you I receive, Em D Em G C I´m so glad that I´m not dead Bismillah erachman erachim (2x) To you I give, Glory to Ram, the all pervading being, Am Dm (Native American) and the Goddess Lakshmi, the mother of One unity, all mercy, all compassion. Together we share, abundance. (Sufi) C Thy will be done. In this we live. (India) 3 4 2 2 OM MANI PADME HUM “A man is fully enlightened only when he OM S H REE S ACHÉ (Love is Space) disappears completely, when there is (Love is Space, More than Music) (Capo 5th fret) nothing left inside, when he is just like a (capo 4th fret) hollow bamboo and becomes a flute and the The birds have flown to freedom. Am whole starts singing through him. When the Am Dm The cage lies empty. Om mani padme hum song is no more his, then the song is divine.$ Om shree saché maha prabhu Your happy songs bring me G Am -Osho- C the scent of heaven. Om mani padme hum Ki jai Please keep singing... Am G F C -Rumi- Om mani padme hum Paramatma ki jai G Am Dm G--E7 Om mani padme hum Om shanti shanti shantihi om Fmaj7 G OM NAMO NARAYANAYA Om mani padme hum (Love is Space) May the ultimate truth and that which Fmaj7 G Fmaj7-Am is beyond all boundaries be victorious. Om mani padme hum G C D G May there be peace, peace, peace. SAT PATIM/ OM SHRIM Am G Am Om namo narayanaya (Praful) (Songs for the Inner Lover) Om mani padme hum G C D G Om namo narayanaya A D The sound of silence, the diamond in the Sat patim dehi parameshwara lotus. I bow down to the divine. A E (Miten/Deva Premal) (India) Sat patim dehi parameshwara A Dm A-E OM RAM RAMAYA Sat patim dehi parameshwara (Embrace) KU WA TE Please give to me a man of truth who OM ASATOMA embodies the perfect masculine (Global Heart Native Soul) F#m (The Essence) principles. (Capo 5th fret) Om ram ramaya (drop D tuning) Mantra for women to attract a love C# Am partner. Dm Svaha Kuwate linyo linyo mahote Om asatomo satgamaya Bm G Am Om ram ramaya Om shrim shriyei namaha Hayano, hayano, hayano Tamasoma jyotir gamaya A Am C Dm Svaha We are one in the infinte sun Mrityorma amritamgamaya Om and Salutations to the creative G Am E abundance that is the very form of this Forever and ever and ever Take us from the false to the truth, Om universe. from darkness to light, Mantra which expresses and attracts (Native American) from death to deathlessness. An invocation to Rama, whose perfection the feminine (Shakti) energy of the (India) exists in us all. (Praful) universe. (Miten/Deva Premal) 5 6 3 3 OM TARE “You have not to repeat the mantra, you have to TEYATA (Embrace, More than Music) understand its meaning and let that meaning (Embrace) (Capo 3rd fret) sink into you. Sitting silently, be utterly quiet, unmoving. Watch your mind. A few thoughts will Dm C “And when you are madly dancing, madly Am Fmaj7 be there, but as you become silent those thoughts Teyata om bekanze singing, when you are joyful without any Om tare tuttare will disappear, and suddenly you hear a humming Bb Am Gm control, without your presence, when the joy G Am sound all around you. Bekanze maha bekanze is so full, overflowing -- you are flooded with Ture swaha That humming sound is not made by you. Am Dm it and all control is abandoned -- then you It is at the very center of existence. Radza samudgate soha will see a miracle: death and life dancing Dm E7 It is the sound of the skies. together#$ Om tare tuttare It is the sound of space. It is like this. -Osho- Fmaj7 It is the sound of the universe; it is its indication Medicine Buddha, you are the King, the Ture of aliveness. It is vibrating with dance and music. Supreme Healer. Fmaj7 This OM is perhaps the greatest symbol in the Please remove illness, illness and the Swaha whole world.$ great Illness. Now I offer this prayer. -Osho- An invocation to Tara, the female OM NAMO BHAGAVATE One of the most important mantras for healing, it counterpart of Avalokiteshvara, the (Embrace, More than Music) asks for healing from the illusion of duality. This Bodhisattva of Compassion. The Tara is mantra is also used for the dying process. pictured many-armed, symbolizing the (India) powers and attributes she has cultivated A F#m-D-Bm to save all sentient beings. ISHQ-ALLA H Om na-mo (Praful) (Songs for the Inner Lover) E F#m C#m - D A E F#m D Bha-ga-va-----te Ishq-allah mah-bud-lillah A F#m D A GURU RINPOCHE MANTRA A F#m-G-E SO MUCH MAGNIFICENCE Ishq-allah mah-bud- lil- lah (2x) (Dakshina) Vasudeva-ya (Songs for the Inner Lover, More than Music) A F#m Bm Om is the name of that inside me, which D A Bm F#m Allah ya jamil Om ah hung is aware of the unity of all things.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Hymn to Brahma Score, 7-7-2014
    Hymn to Brahma ancient Sanskrit temple chant arranged for choir by David Nelson Miller Program notes Three traditional melodies from India are brought together in this choir arrangement, sometimes without accompaniment, sometimes accompanied by keyboard, and sometimes accompanied by the recorded sounds of tanpuras. A tanpura is a traditional Indian string instrument which typically drones on 3 notes. One possible translation of the Sanskrit text is below. The text beginning “Brahmanandam…” is sung to two different melodies, at the beginning and end of the arrangement. The central section is a setting of the traditional chant Twameva Mata, sung in Sanskrit and English. Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru is Brahma, Guru is Vishnu, Guru Deva Maheshwara, Guru is the Maheshwara (Shiva), Guru sakshyat, parabrahma, Truly Guru is the supreme spirit – Tasmai Sri Guruve namaha. Salutations therefore to the Guru. Brahmanandam parama sukhadam, Full of transcendental bliss, giving supreme joy, Kevalam gyana murtim, The sole Image of Wisdom, Dwandwa titum gagana sadrisham, Beyond duality, clear as the heavens, Tattwam asyadi lakshyam. Whose motto is: “Thou Art That.” Ekam nityam vimalam achalam, One, permanent, pure, immovable, Sarvadhi sakshi bhutam, The everlasting Seer of all things, Bhawa titum triguna rahitam Beyond thought, free from the three qualities – Sadgurumtam namami. My good Guru, I bow to Thee. Twameva mata cha pita twameva, You truly are my mother and my father, Twameva bandhu cha sakha twameva, You truly are my friend and my beloved companion, Twameva vidya dravinam twameva, You truly are my knowledge and my wealth, Twameva sarvam mama deva deva. O Supreme Lord, You truly are everything to me.
    [Show full text]
  • Brahmadeva Sutta
    Sayutta Nikyavol1 S6.3Brahma,devaSutta Brahma,deva Sutta The Brahma,deva Discourse [The High God does not need any offering] (Sayutta Nikya 6.3/1:140-142) Translated by Piya Tan ©2004 1 Sutta summary This short instructive discourse, with a gentle touch of spiritual humour, is about a woman who worships Brahm (or God), regarded in ancient India as the creator god; yet her own son is an arhat. Brahm himself comes down from his heaven and appears before a brahminee (the monk Brahma,deva’s mother), admonishing her on the futility of her offerings, since brahms do not partake of earthly offer- ings, but subsist on dhyanic joy. More importantly, Brahm instructs the brahminee not to cast her religious sight too far away, when heaven lies right before her, in her own son: that her offerings would yield great fruit if she were to offer them to her own arhat son, Brahma,deva. The Sayutta Commentary tells a similar story about Shakra, who on seeing the people of Aga and Magadha making preparations for a great sacrifice to Mahā Brahmā, feels pity for them. Appearing to them in the guise of Brahmā, he advises them to take their offerings to the Buddha and listen to his teach- ings. (SA 1:351 f) Long before the rise of modern theism, the Buddha has already pointed to finding life’s answer and liberation within oneself, not in an external power, real or imagined. As long as we do not realize that we create our own God or gods, and that they are but hypostases of our desire for control and power, we will continue to find spiritual answers outside of ourselves, and fail to see the godliness and goodness within.
    [Show full text]
  • Bhagavata Purana
    Bhagavata Purana The Bh āgavata Pur āṇa (Devanagari : भागवतपुराण ; also Śrīmad Bh āgavata Mah ā Pur āṇa, Śrīmad Bh āgavatam or Bh āgavata ) is one of Hinduism 's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas , great histories).[1][2] Composed in Sanskrit and available in almost all Indian languages,[3] it promotes bhakti (devotion) to Krishna [4][5][6] integrating themes from the Advaita (monism) philosophy of Adi Shankara .[5][7][8] The Bhagavata Purana , like other puranas, discusses a wide range of topics including cosmology, genealogy, geography, mythology, legend, music, dance, yoga and culture.[5][9] As it begins, the forces of evil have won a war between the benevolent devas (deities) and evil asuras (demons) and now rule the universe. Truth re-emerges as Krishna, (called " Hari " and " Vasudeva " in the text) – first makes peace with the demons, understands them and then creatively defeats them, bringing back hope, justice, freedom and good – a cyclic theme that appears in many legends.[10] The Bhagavata Purana is a revered text in Vaishnavism , a Hindu tradition that reveres Vishnu.[11] The text presents a form of religion ( dharma ) that competes with that of the Vedas , wherein bhakti ultimately leads to self-knowledge, liberation ( moksha ) and bliss.[12] However the Bhagavata Purana asserts that the inner nature and outer form of Krishna is identical to the Vedas and that this is what rescues the world from the forces of evil.[13] An oft-quoted verse is used by some Krishna sects to assert that the text itself is Krishna in literary
    [Show full text]
  • WNEW's Story of Selma, 1965
    WNEW'S' STORY WITH LEN CHANDLER, PETE SEEGER AND THE FREEDOM VOICES PRODUCED BY JERRY GRAHAM M AND MIKE STEIN 1977 C47 FOLKWAYS RECORDS FH 5595 S66 1965 MUSIC LP Il') Il') 0- 0- Il') Il') Il') Il') I I u. u. I/') I/')o o a:: a:: HOLD ON AIN'T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN ME 'ROUND o o WE'VE GOT A ROPE THAT'S A BERLIN WALL AIN'T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN ME 'ROUND U U PRODUCED BY ALL WNEW RADIO w w I LOVE EVERYBODY (chorus) a:: a:: ROYALTIES FROM I LOVE EVE RYBODY (on Rt. 80 in Selma) DO WHAT THE SPIRIT SAY DO JERRY GRAHAM I/') I/') I LOVE EVERYBODY (with chorus) DO WHAT THE SPIRIT SAY DO (at Montgomery) ~ ~ 4: AND MIKE STEIN THE SALE OF THIS MARCHING CADENCE SONG - PICK 'E M UP CHANT, FOR FREEDOM 4: AND LAY 'E M DOWN MURDER ON THE ROADS OF ALABAMA 3 TECHNICAL RECORD WILL GO TO IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR FREEDOM 3 ~ ~ -..I YANKEE DOODLE DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET INSIDE JACKET -..I o DIRECTION BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS OH, WALLACE o U. DOUG JOHNSON MOVEMENT WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? FOLKWAYS RECORDS FH 5595 ~ The march from Selma to Montgomery. Alabama will go faclS had been reponed, but Stein felt the feeling and spirit march (the quality of these cuts will be margillai because and establish a WNEW News Department. down in hislory as a unIque and dramatic demonstration for of the remarkable march had not filtered past the Alabama of the recording condilions 1.
    [Show full text]
  • 50 Years in Rock History
    HISTORY AEROSMITH 50 YEARS IN ROCK PART THREE AEROSMITH 50 YEARS IN ROCK PART THREE 1995–1999 The year of 1995 is for AEROSMITH marked by AEROSMITH found themselves in a carousel the preparations of a new album, in which the of confusions, intrigues, great changes, drummer Joey Kramer did not participate in its termination of some collaboration, returns first phase. At that time, he was struggling with and new beginnings. They had already severe depressive states. After the death of his experienced all of it many times during their father, everything that had accumulated inside career before, but this time on a completely him throughout his life and could no longer be different level. The resumption of collaboration ignored, came to the surface. Unsuspecting and with their previous record company was an 2,000 miles away from the other members of encouragement and a guarantee of a better the band, he undergoes treatment. This was tomorrow for the band while facing unfavorable disrupted by the sudden news of recording circumstances. The change of record company the basics of a new album with a replacement was, of course, sweetened by a lucrative drummer. Longtime manager Tim Collins handled offer. Columbia / Sony valued AEROSMITH the situation in his way and tried to get rid of at $ 30 million and offered the musicians Joey Kramer without the band having any idea a contract that was certainly impossible about his actions. In general, he tried to keep the to reject. AEROSMITH returned under the musicians apart so that he had everything under wing of a record company that had stood total control.
    [Show full text]
  • Vidulaku- Mrokkeda-Raga.Html Youtube Class: Audio MP3 Class
    Vidhulaku Mrokkedha Ragam: Mayamalavagowlai {15th Melakartha Ragam} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayamalavagowla ARO: S R1 G3 M1 P D1 N3 S || AVA: A N3 D1 P M1 G3 R1 S || Talam: Adi Composer: Thyagaraja Version: M.S. Subbulakshmi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llsETzsGWzU ) Lyrics Courtesy: www.karnatik.com (Rani) and Lakshman Ragde http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c2933.html Meaning Courtesy: https://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2007/03/thyagaraja-kriti-vidulaku- mrokkeda-raga.html Youtube Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWszTbKSkm0 Audio MP3 Class: http://www.shivkumar.org/music/vidulaku-class.mp3 Pallavi: vidulaku mrokkEda sangIta kO Anupallavi: mudamuna shankara krta sAma nigama vidulaku nAdAtmaka sapta svara Charanam: kamalA gaurI vAgIshvari vidhi garuDa dhvaja shiva nAradulu amarEsha bharata kashyapa caNDIsha AnjanEya guha gajamukhulu su-mrkaNDuja kumbhaja tumburu vara sOmEshvara shArnga dEva nandi pramukhulaku tyAgarAja vandyulaku brahmAnanda sudhAmbudhi marma Meaning Courtesy: https://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2007/03/thyagaraja-kriti-vidulaku- mrokkeda-raga.html Pallavi: Sahityam: vidulaku mrokkEda sangIta kO Meaning: I salute (mrokkeda) the maestros (kOvidulaku) of music (sangIta). Sahityam: mudamuna shankara krta sAma nigama vidulaku nAdAtmaka sapta svara Meaning: I joyously (mudamuna) salute - the masters (vidulaku) of sAma vEda (nigama) created (kRta) by Lord Sankara and the maestros (vidulaku) of sapta svara – nAda embodied (Atmaka) (nAdAtmaka). Sahityam:kamalA gaurI vAgIshvari vidhi garuDa dhvaja
    [Show full text]
  • Full Text of the Service at White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church Sunday, November 1, 2020 ______
    Full Text of the Service at White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church Sunday, November 1, 2020 ____________________________________________________ PRELUDE MUSIC A Change is Gonna Come Some were born by the river, or in a little tent, And just like that river, they’ve been runnin' ever since It's been a long time comin', but I know a change is gonna come. It's been too hard livin', but I'm afraid to die ‘Cause I don’t know what’s out there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time comin', but I know a change is gonna come, I know it will. So I say to my brother and I say to my sister, help me please They say they really wanna help me but somehow, somehow I’m back down on my knees. There’ve been times when I thought I couldn’t last for long But now I think I’m able to carry on It’s been a long time, a long time comin’ but I know a change is gonna come It’s been a long time, a long time comin’ but I know a change is gonna come. This is My Song This is my song, O god of all the nations A song of peace for lands afar and mine. This is my home, the country where my heart is; Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine; But other hearts in other lands are beating With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine. My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean, And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine; But other lands have sunlight too, and clover, And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
    [Show full text]
  • The Calendars of India
    The Calendars of India By Vinod K. Mishra, Ph.D. 1 Preface. 4 1. Introduction 5 2. Basic Astronomy behind the Calendars 8 2.1 Different Kinds of Days 8 2.2 Different Kinds of Months 9 2.2.1 Synodic Month 9 2.2.2 Sidereal Month 11 2.2.3 Anomalistic Month 12 2.2.4 Draconic Month 13 2.2.5 Tropical Month 15 2.2.6 Other Lunar Periodicities 15 2.3 Different Kinds of Years 16 2.3.1 Lunar Year 17 2.3.2 Tropical Year 18 2.3.3 Siderial Year 19 2.3.4 Anomalistic Year 19 2.4 Precession of Equinoxes 19 2.5 Nutation 21 2.6 Planetary Motions 22 3. Types of Calendars 22 3.1 Lunar Calendar: Structure 23 3.2 Lunar Calendar: Example 24 3.3 Solar Calendar: Structure 26 3.4 Solar Calendar: Examples 27 3.4.1 Julian Calendar 27 3.4.2 Gregorian Calendar 28 3.4.3 Pre-Islamic Egyptian Calendar 30 3.4.4 Iranian Calendar 31 3.5 Lunisolar calendars: Structure 32 3.5.1 Method of Cycles 32 3.5.2 Improvements over Metonic Cycle 34 3.5.3 A Mathematical Model for Intercalation 34 3.5.3 Intercalation in India 35 3.6 Lunisolar Calendars: Examples 36 3.6.1 Chinese Lunisolar Year 36 3.6.2 Pre-Christian Greek Lunisolar Year 37 3.6.3 Jewish Lunisolar Year 38 3.7 Non-Astronomical Calendars 38 4. Indian Calendars 42 4.1 Traditional (Siderial Solar) 42 4.2 National Reformed (Tropical Solar) 49 4.3 The Nānakshāhī Calendar (Tropical Solar) 51 4.5 Traditional Lunisolar Year 52 4.5 Traditional Lunisolar Year (vaisnava) 58 5.
    [Show full text]
  • Hymns to the Mystic Fire
    16 Hymns to the Mystic Fire VOLUME 16 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 2013 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA Hymns To The Mystic Fire Publisher’s Note The present volume comprises Sri Aurobindo’s translations of and commentaries on hymns to Agni in the Rig Veda. It is divided into three parts: Hymns to the Mystic Fire: The entire contents of a book of this name that was published by Sri Aurobindo in 1946, consisting of selected hymns to Agni with a Fore- word and extracts from the essay “The Doctrine of the Mystics”. Other Hymns to Agni: Translations of hymns to Agni that Sri Aurobindo did not include in the edition of Hymns to the Mystic Fire published during his lifetime. An appendix to this part contains his complete transla- tions of the first hymn of the Rig Veda, showing how his approach to translating the Veda changed over the years. Commentaries and Annotated Translations: Pieces from Sri Aurobindo’s manuscripts in which he commented on hymns to Agni or provided annotated translations of them. Some translations of hymns addressed to Agni are included in The Secret of the Veda, volume 15 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. That volume consists of all Sri Aurobindo’s essays on and translations of Vedic hymns that appeared first in the monthly review Arya between 1914 and 1920. His writings on the Veda that do not deal primarily with Agni and that were not published in the Arya are collected in Vedic and Philological Studies, volume 14 of THE COMPLETE WORKS.
    [Show full text]
  • The Mystic Railroad Baker.Pdf
    The Mystic Railroad by Jacqueline Curry/443-810-9559 Chapter One I don’t believe I ever really had a proper name, a real name, like others do, stamped in ink on a birth certificate; but folks, that is some of the hoboes and the homeless I tramp around with and hop trains with, started calling me Sidney, which rhymes with kidney, an apt name for me, since like the function of that particular organ, I am a vessel which filters out the poison all around me. Around my neck, burnt the color of brick from baking in the sun, hangs on a shoe- string, a chunk of iron, an old railroad spike I found, in the shape of an elongated teardrop. Sometimes I wear a bandanna, too, for protecting my mouth and nose from dust, coal silt, pollen, and fumes. Frequently, traveling through America, from the West Coast of California to the East Coast of Maine, and visiting numerous states in between, riding in boxcars, I fall into trances where the grit and mud and dirt and body odor and aching gnaw of hunger in my mostly empty belly, the reality of my present world, falls away, and I am swaddled in euphoria, nearly catatonic with bliss, heralded with the singing of angels or celestials, I’m never sure which. Conversely, with my eyes rolling back and flickering wildly in my head, I see the apocalypse, mass human destruction, tidal waves, earthquakes, famine, and war. But my body glows with an unquenchable fervor, knowing that I was sent to this troubled world to help, to change things for the better.
    [Show full text]
  • NEW Sacred Heart Song Book .Pages
    #35 Ain’t No Grave #34 Live So God Can Use You #25 Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed #54 Lord I’m in Your Care #97 Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks #112 Lord of the Dance #1 Amazing Grace #98 Lord’s Prayer #87 As the Deer #100 Morning Has Broken #56 Away in a Manger #73 My Hope is Built on Nothing Less #12 Be Thou My Vision #105 Nearer, My God, to Thee #91 Blessed Assurance #49 Nothing But the Blood #57 By the Mark #80 O Come O Come Emmanuel #4 Can the Circle be Unbroken #92 O Holy Night #10 Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing #38 O Mary Don’t You Weep #23 Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus #85 Oh Come, Angel Band #3 Down by the Riverside #9 On the Rock Where Moses Stood #2 Down to the River to Pray #61 Palms of Victory #27 Every Humble Knee Must Bow #24 Peace In The Valley #8 Farther Along #71 Praise the Lord! Ye Heavens, Adore Him #83 For the Beauty of the Earth #70 Revive us again #32 Glory, Glory #82 Ride On, King Jesus #77 Go Tell It on the Mountain #55 River of Jordan #30 Great is Thy Faithfulness #63 Rock of Ages Cleft for Me #60 Green Pastures #39 Shall We Gather At The River? #48 Hallelujah #86 Shouting on the Hills of Glory #88 Hallelujah 146 #81 Silent Night #67 Hallelujah Side #104 Simple Gifts #76 Hark the Herald Angels Sing #93 So Glad I’m Here #20 Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand #110 Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door #84 Holy, Holy, Holy #52 Sow 'Em On The Mountain #103 How Can I Keep From Singing? #45 Stand By Me #28 How Great Thou Art #107 Summons #5 I Am a Pilgrim #22 Sweet Hour of Prayer #96 I Am the Bread of Life #14 Swing Low Sweet
    [Show full text]
  • You Gotta Move: Three Short Stories Lori Freshwater Rhode Island College, [email protected]
    Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC Honors Projects Overview Honors Projects 4-2010 You Gotta Move: Three Short Stories Lori Freshwater Rhode Island College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects Part of the American Literature Commons, Creative Writing Commons, and the Personality and Social Contexts Commons Recommended Citation Freshwater, Lori, "You Gotta Move: Three Short Stories" (2010). Honors Projects Overview. 38. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/38 This Honors is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors Projects at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Projects Overview by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. YOU GOTTA MOVE THREE SHORT STORIES By Lori Freshwater An Honors Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in The Department of English The School of Arts and Sciences Rhode Island College 2010 2 My Daddy Could Have Been Mac Davis So Biff came to stay in the tree house tree. And long days came without end For the boy and the toy and the purple bear. And serious games of pretend ~ Mac Davis The biscuits were way too dry that day. Not at all like the usual goodness served up at the Central Diner. But I didn't care, because it gave me an excuse to order the white-pepper gravy to smother, and I mean smother them with. While I waited for the gravy, I sat and watched my mother. Her hair was perfect, as always, and sprayed to stay that way.
    [Show full text]