Songs of hope and healing

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 08:44 PM

Stan Roger's, May the Mary Ellen Carter Rise Again.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 08:23 PM

McGrath--"Even the cripple forgets his hunch, when he's snug outside of a jug of punch." Well! I never would have thought of that one! Good thinking!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 08:12 PM

To be a Pilgrim.

Quite a few Sydney Carter songs - George Fox, Lord of the Dance, One More Step, Travel On.

Tis a Gift to be Simple

The Parting Glass

The Summer Time is Coming

Jug of Punch

If it was in America I'd push for This Land is Your Land."

If it was in England I'd push for "Leaning on a Lamp ost"

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: GUEST,MAG
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 07:58 PM

"O Mary, don't you weep don't you moan"

Seeger's "Old Devil Time"

Ellen McIlwaine had a great one, sort of a chant -- I'll post it tomorrow if this thread is still going (as I think it will be -- great thread.)

MA (still tracking down the problem between my server and my computer)

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 07:49 PM

Ooh, howabout "A Beautiful City" from the movie version of Stephen Schwartz's classic music "Godspell." Man I love that song!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 07:37 PM

How Can I Keep From Singing!

"No storm can shake my inmost calm,
while to that rock I'm clinging"

Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 07:33 PM

The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics, a song of regret, catharsis, and the birth of hope.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 07:20 PM

Oh, gosh, great thread- my chorus focuses on songs of healing- with the view that to sing is to heal. Let's see... specific healing songs would be
Courage my soul
Ionn Da (Seal-woman's sea joy)
Sing 'til the power of the Lord come down (somehow folks who object to being preached at don't usually mind African-American spirituals from the slave tradition since they represent so much hope out of struggle and oppression)

Then for consolation, let's sing
I bid you goodnight
Hallowell from the latest Sacred Harp - refrain repeats the lines The dead lift me up... I see them face to face... powerful!

Hmmmmmm- I'll keep thinking and check back here.
Peace, Allison

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 07:17 PM

Definately "Another Rolling Stone" by Rod Patterson, "Sail On" by Dick Gaughan, "What You Do With What You Got" (I like the John Wright Band version), "Trouble in the Fields" ( I like the Nanci Griffith/ Maura O'Connell duet version), "From Here To There" by Battlefield Band, "All Or Nothing" by Eddi Reader, and "Stepping Stones" by Dougie MacLean. These, at least, are the ones that make me feel better on those frequent times when I don't feel so well.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 06:42 PM

The Great Storm Is Over, Life's Railway to Heaven

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: GUEST,emily rain at the U Dub
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 06:42 PM

"to my old brown earth" by pete seeger

"there is a balm in gilead"

"i ain't no ways tired"

"ancient mother" (the libana one... ancient mother / i hear you calling / ancient mother / i sing your song / ancient mother / i join your laughter / ancient mother / i taste your tears"

"air on a g string" by bach

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 06:35 PM

Gordon Bok's "Turning Toward Morning"

Subject: RE: BS: Songs of hope and healing
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 06:31 PM

I dno't know and this gets very personal but for me and hope, probably "I Heard the Voice Of Jesus Say" but it needs somebody with my beliefs to understand that one.

Jon

Subject: Songs of hope and healing
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 06:17 PM

Suppose you were interested in putting together a CD of Songs of Hope and Healing, both as a fund-raiser for your local Hope Center or hospice and a spirit-booster/music therapy for their patients and others. Rounding up musicians is no problem (you might even want to record live at a local church with wonderful acoustics and use the audience as a chorus). But what songs would you want to record? Cris Williamson's "Song of the Soul" would be a ready choice, but the material needs a gentler start (that line "come to your life like a warrior" would be a slap in the face to somebody really hurting). Your community represents wide religious and non-religious diversity; hymns must be handled with care. So what would be on your list?