Re: More songs
Jeff Keller
http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Sing#Lyrics_Booklet
It's grown from 8 to 10 pages. Enjoy!
--Jeff
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Janis Roihl <jro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff - Is there and electronic copy of the songs you can send so i can print
> out my own copy. Might work for other to. I have a list of 18 people from
> Mystic chorale who want to be kept informed but apparently haven't joint
> your list though i encouraged it. Most of them hope to sing at some point.
> It would be easy for them and others to print their own copies. what do you
> think. At least if you get a chance to send me one I would appreciate it.
>
> Janis
>
> Jeff Keller wrote:
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> I'm very glad you did! And I do want to look at the other songs.
> And I need to sound people out about what songs they know, whether
> they're up for learning songs in advance, and who wants to lead
> what...
> --Jeff
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Janis Roihl <jro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jeff - No problem . I had put that together for another group and thought
> I'd send it FWIW
> Janis
> Jeff Keller wrote:
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> Janis --
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> I love "Bread and Roses"! I'd dismissed it because it doesn't have a
> chorus and isn't that easy to sing, but with those anniversaries, it
> might be worth a try. I wonder how many people know it?
>
> I also thought about "I ain't marchin anymore", because I really like
> it and was hoping to get some Phil Ochs, but it lacks a full chorus
> and isn't very topical.
>
> "We shall overcome" is in the booklet and easy to sing, but I don't
> think it has quite the energy I'm looking for. (If nothing else, it's
> too patient.)
>
> "How Can I Keep from Singing" is a great song but not very topical, if
> memory serves.
>
> "Last Night I had the Strangest Dream" is fun but not the attitude I'm
> looking for.
>
> I don't think I know the others in your list; maybe someone else can chime
> in...
> --Jeff
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Janis Roihl <jro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jeff - I pulled these together for another group i am in. I thought it
> might be useful.
>
> This is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Waist Factory Fire
> of March 1911 which took the lives of 146 women locked in the 8th,
> 9th,
> and 10th floors of
> the factory. It was a time of protest among garment workers. The song
> 'Bread and Roses" ." came out of that period. It is commonly
> associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during
> January-March 1912, now often known as the "Bread and Roses strike". and
> in protest to conditions like Triangle
>
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> Bread and Roses
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> Song lyrics
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> As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
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> A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
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> Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
>
> For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses!
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> As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
>
> For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
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> Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
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> Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.
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> As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
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> Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread.
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> Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
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> Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.
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> As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
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> The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
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> No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
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> But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdI5eomL5Qo&feature=related
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> I ain't marchin anymore
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pgrKSwFJE
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> We Shall Overcome
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnPVP23rzo&feature=related
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> How Can i Keep From Singing
> http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePeaceOverTheWorld
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> Last Night I had the strangest Dream
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU-9TBP2NY
>
> Deep Peace - Bill Douglas
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6PQRXXn9ko
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> Ubi Caritas - (Chant - Where there is love - there is God) Taize
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2o27qpvfUc
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> Universal Soldier
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ina2FBFZkNM&feature=related
>
> Circle Chant
> Circle Round for Freedom, circle round for peace
> For all of us imprisoned, circle for release
> Circle for the Planet, circle for each soul
> For the Children of our children: Keep the circle whole.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf8rcPa_Cbo
> Full words and music at
> http://www.giamusic.com/searchPDFS/G4584.pdf
>
> Come sing A Song With Me - Carolyn McDade (attached)
>
> Come sing a song with me, 3X
> That I might know your mind
>
> Come walk in rain with me 3X
>
> Chorus
> And I'll bring you hope,
> when hope is hard to find
> And I'll being a song of love
> and a rose in the wintertime.
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