Tune request ; Mother Song

Subject: Tune request ; Mother Song
From: Anika
Date: 17 Oct 99 - 10:10 AM

I have the lyrics to this beautiful song ; it starts off like this: Wander wild and homeless, All roads lead to you, Riding wind and laughing, at the moon. Does anyone know who wrote it and also where I may get the tune?

Subject: RE: Tune request - Mother Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 99 - 11:55 AM

Hi, Anika - your thread title says this is a "mother song," so I expected one of those sweet, sentimental old things. This one sounds more like a song about a mother wolf. It really sounds interesting. Where did you hear it? Anything else you recall about the song that might help us find it? It sounds vaguely familiar. If you can give a few more hints, maybe it will trigger my memory. If you have the complete lyrics, please post them.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune request ; Mother Song
From: Anika
Date: 17 Oct 99 - 02:50 PM

Hi, Joe! I heard this song at a singing circle. One of the members brought it in.I have no hint to the writer other than it is not a new song, probably from the sixties or seventies as it was o vinyl. The lyrics are as follows;

Wander wild and homeless, All roads lead to you,
Riding wind and laughing, at the moon.
Fear and longing gone now, Day and night the same,
Knowing that the Mother knows, my name.
Needing nothing of my own, Joy is one with pain,
Drifting free, my life, her love, sustains.
Care not who or what I am, In her arms the wine,
Face the babe before it knows to smile.
Wander wlid and homeless, All roads lead to you,
Riding wind and laughing, at the moon.
(aaah-oooooo)(my wolf impression)

The end. The tune was quite meditative and lent itself to wonderful harmonies.

Subject: RE: Tune request ; Mother Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 99 - 07:55 PM

Ah, so it WAS a wolf song! Something makes me think Claudia Schmidt may have recorded it. I'll look around and see if I can find it.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune request ; Mother Song
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Mar 08 - 10:21 PM

It is MOTHER SONG, written by Bhagavan Das, and recorded by Luscious Trance on an album called "New Tribal Music," 1997. Allmusic.com classifies it as "New Age."

There are two web sites about Bhagavan Das:

www.bhagavandas.org

www.bhagavandas.com