Daily Songs (alphabetical list)

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• $20 Bill by Tom Prasado-Rao. For George Floyd. Say their names.  watch (6/29/220)
• A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke. It's been a long time coming but...  watch (6/3/20)
• A Healing in This Night by Bob Franke.    watch (7/3/20)
• A la puerto diel cielo (At the Gate of Heaven). Collected by the WPA Federal Music Project in New Mexico during the 1930's. listen in RUS "Lullabies" p.131 (9/26/21)
• A Way Out of No Way by Sally Rogers. Written for John Lewis' 2016 sit-in for sensible gun laws. "There's a time to end the silence."  watch (7/22/20)
• After the Fire by Paul Kaplan. This song was written on the first anniversary of 9/11, but also has other new meanings today. listen on new rec with Leverett Community Chorus  (9/20/21)
• After the Gold Rush by Neil Young. rec in 1970 a few weeks before the first Earth Day. cover by Parton, Ronstadt & Harris. a capella cover by Prelude. (for COP-26 11/15/21)

• Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around rec by Sweet Honey in the Rock. Justice for George Floyd.  watch (6/2/20)
• Ain't Got No - I Got Life from Nina Simone. Got my life, got my soul.  watch  (5/21/20)
• Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers orig 1971 rec Stevie Wonders sang him the song at Withers' 2015 Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame induction watch  in RA "Motown and R&B" p.172 (10/5/21)
• Ain't Ya Got a Right? dedicated to the federal prisoners the president is rushing to execute before he leaves office. rec featuring Kim Harris. (1/5/21)
• All Around My Hat I will wear my green willow... A lively love song for the holiday week listen to classic 1975 rec by Steeleye Span. In RA "Ballads & Old Songs" p.2 (12/28/21)
• All I Ask of You by Gregory Norbert (formerly onWeston Priory in VT). Someone may be calling you to be there for a while... watch (10/25/20)
• All Nations Rise by Lyla June. Celebrating Deb Haaland's confirmation yesterday as the first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior in the U.S. watch (3/16/21)
• All the Weary Mothers by Joan Baez, as sung by Annie Patterson. And the men & women of the earth shall rest. watch (11/6/20)
• All Will Be Well by Meg Barnhouse I said "Julian, do you not know, do you not know about sorrow & cruelty?” watch (4/5/22)
• All You Fascists Bound to Lose by Woody Guthrie. In rage at those who lure young men to hate & kill. watch video by Rhiannon Giddens (5/16/22) 
• Amazed  by Cantor Linda Hirschhorn.  Remembering what we have to be grateful for even in hard times.  watch (9/6/20)
• Amazing Grace sung by Aretha Franklin. Remembering those who died 20 years ago - and all the years since... watch - in RUS "Gospel" p.92 (9/11/21And We Shall Want No More by Joanna Katzen. A lullaby for children who go to bed in hunger or fear. watch (8/27/20)
• Angel from Montgomery - We just lost a giant (John Prine) to COVID-19. watch (4/8/20)
• Another Train by Pete Morton. The beginning is now & will always be... watch (2/6/21)
• Arthur McBride - a wonderful song of 2 Irish lads who won't take duff from 3 arrogant English soldiers. live by Planxty 2004 - short film with rec by Paul Brady. (in RUS "Ballads & Old Songs" p7 - 8/6/21) 
• Asikatali - a South African song from the struggle against apartheid.  watch (6/15/20)
• At the Gate of Heaven (A la puerta del cielo). Collected by the WPA Federal Music Project in New Mexico during the 1930's. listen in RUS "Lullabies" p.131 (9/26/21)
• Auld Lang Syne - sung by a group of Black singers in a Birmingham AL church where white deacons once refused to seat African Americans. watch (2/26/21)
• Ballad of the Carpenter by Ewan MacColl. A radical spin on Jesus' life. orig 1960 rec with Peggy Seeger. by socialist carolers (!) (in RA "Work" p282 - 8/5/21)
• Be Free by J.Cole. Written for Eric Garner (killed by NYC police in 2014). live on Letterman Show YouTube won't let us play the hard truth video on our site due to age restrictions. (11/21/21)
• Be the Light by LEA. Shine your light in the darkness! watch (1/23/21)
• Because All Men Are Brothers by Tom Glazer & J.S.Bach. No tyrant shall defeat us! listen to rec by NC Master Chorale live rec by Peter Paul & Mary - in RUS "Unity" p238 (3/5/22)
• Beeswing by Richard Thompson. She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing. tender cover by Roy Bailey (3/4/21)
• Bird by Bird - by Joe Crookston (inspired by Anne Lamott's book). How we gonna it make when trouble comes through?  watch  (4/20/20)
• Birds at the Dawning arr. by Peter & Mary Alice Amidon view post (9/14/22)
• Blackbird by Paul McCartney & recorded on The Beatles’ White Album, sung here by Rachel Wood in the 2007 film "Across the Universe". watch (8/17/20)
• Blackbird in Mi'kmaq by Emma Stone in her Native language. watch For Indigenous People Day (10/11/21)
• Blue Boat Home - by Peter Mayer. For Earth Day. Will humanity realize in time that we are holding the future of this precious planet in our hands?  watch (girls choir)  watch (Mayer)  (4/21/20)
• Bonnie Light Horseman An Irish antiwar song dating to the Napoleanic wars. 2011 a cappella rec by Annie Patterson We learned the song from a 1979 rec Dolores Keane & John Faulkner. in RA "Peace" p.198 (9/17/21)
• The Brandy Tree by Gordon Bok. The pipes come laughing down the wind. That's the way for me. listen in RUS "Dreams & Fantasies" p28 (3/19/22)
• Bread & Roses, sung by Joan Baez & Mimi Farina. For 19th amendment passed Aug. 18, 1920. Unnumbereed women dead go crying thru our singing their ancient call for bread.  watch  (7/24/20)
• Bridges by Bill Staines. This song that Bill recorded in 1988 about building bridges instead of walls between people rings even truer today than it did in 1988. live rec by Bill in 2016 - cover by Sylvia Davidson. (4/13/22)
• Bring Me a Boat - by Kate Rusby & Phil Cunningham. May we all learn how to ebb & flow gently in these rough waters.  watch  (4/25/20)​
• Broom o' the Cowderknowes - Child Ballad #217 rec by Silly Wizard. Ah the broom, the bonny bonny broom...  watch (10/10/20)
• Buckets of Rain by Bob Dylan.  Buckets of moonbeams in my hand. orig rec by Dylan cover by Jeff Foucault & Kris Delmhorst (in RA "Love" p.148 - 7/20/21)
• Build Me Up Buttercup rec by The Foundations (the 1st UK group to successfully utilize the Motown sound). orig 1968 hit  live conc video  in RA "British Invasion" p.18 (9/8/21)
• By the Rivers of Babylon by The Melodians. How can we sing King Alfa's song in a strange land? listen (in RUS  "Freedom" p.63 - 6/27/21)
• Calling Joe Hill as sung by Roy Bailey. Teller of elemental wrongs, of the heart's imaginings: Teach us the skill.  watch (7/14/20)
• Can I Get a Witness? by Holland-Dozier-Holland who created scores of hits for Motown Records in the 1960s. Lamont Dozier died last Friday. listen to rec by Marvin Gaye (8/14/22)
• Can't Help Falling in Love with You - watch Arlo Guthrie sing at Wolf Trap & tell a Pete Seeger story. a cappella cover by Pentatonix in RA "Rock Around the Clock" p231 (12/18/21)
• Can't Kill the Spirit by Naomi Morena. This video, featuring Marilyn Keller, was created in 2016 soon after DRT's election "so it could nurture us during times of struggle".  watch (1/13/20)
• Captain Kidd (hymn) - Through all the world below God is seen all around. Search hills & valleys through, there he's found. rec by Kelly Kennedy. live "shape note" sing (in RUS p.251 - 3/26/21)
• A Case of You by Joni Mitchell.  You're in my blood like holy wine. 1ive in 1983 London - orig 1971"Blue" rec- 2019 cover by Brandi Carlile (in RA "Love" p.148 - 7/24/21)
• Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke. It's been a long time coming but...  watch (6/3/20)
• Chariots by John Kirkpatrick. Muskets & sabers & swords shall be sundered surrendered to the sound that is sweeping the sky. watch (12/27/20)
• Chariots - Continuing to celebrate Tony Barrand: Tony got audiences to join Nowell Sing We Clear in singing John Kirkpatrick’s rousing antiwar carol at their annual concerts across the Northeast. watch - in RA "Peace" p199  (2/2/22)
• Chimes of Freedom by Bob Dylan rec by Bruce Springsteen in East Berlin 1988  watch (7/18/20)
• Cinco Siglos Igual (500 Years the Same)- nueva canción by Leon Gieco & Luis Gurevich, sung by Mercedes Sosa. In the NE it's been  400 years (1620-2020) - 500 years for the indigenous people of Latin America. watch (8/14/20)
• Circle of the Sun by Sally Rogers. For our grandchild born today! Hear tender cover by Elizabeth Mitchell (in RUS "Home" p.107 - 4/14/21)
• The Clock Winds Down by Jim Page. Resistance goes from hand to hand / For the air, the water, the people, the land / Tomorrow is born from the seeds of today live rec by Christy Moore rec by Page (4/20/22)
• Cold Cup of Water by Pat Humphries. Emma's Revolution sang this powerful anthem for farmworkers at our Sat. Repairing the Breach concert. watch (5/20/21)
• Could You Love Me? by Matt Watroba. If I don't look like you? watch (3/22/22)
• Country Life as sung by The Watersons. view post (8/31/22)
• Country Road  by Paula Fuga and Jack Johnson.  We pray for light in times of darkness.  watch  (5/10/20)
• Crazy He Calls Me as sung by Billie Holiday. I say I'll move the mountains & I'll move the mountains / If he wants them out of the way... listen (2/22/22)
• Crossing the Bar For those we've lost. Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson set to music by Rani Arbo. watch (7/12/20)
• Crossing the Water by Bill Staines (1949-2021). When the welling waves wash o'er you & the stormy winds they drive, give your heart a song, sing it loud & long, keep your dreams alive. watch Bill sing - cover by Sally Rogers in "Hope" chapter of RA p154 (12/9/21)
• Crow on the Cradle by Sydney Carter - one of the great antiwar songs of all time - as sung by Pete Seeger listen on p. 199 in the Peace chapter of RA (2/24/22)
• Custer Died for Your Sins from Floyd Westerman. "A new day must begin." Change MA flag now (last racist state flag in U.S.) watch (7/21.20)
• The Cutty Wren is an English traditional song associated with very old British "wrening" customs around St Stephen's Day (Dec. 26). listen to recording by Nowell Sing We Clear. in RA "Ballads & Old Songs" p10 (12/26/21) 
• Dance for the Nations by John Krumm - a lovely round that is a paien both to dance & to peace. (John called the contradance at our wedding in 1983!) listen in RA "Good Times" p.103 (10/9/21)
• Dark-eyed Molly by Archie Fisher. Deep & dark are my true love's eyes...  listen On p.149 in the "Love" chapter of RA. (2/10/22)
• Days of War by Moira Smiley & Seamus Egan. I sing to know that love is near because anger holds the hand of fear... watch video featuring Sam Amidon (12/16/21)
• Diggers Song (Wistanley) as sung by Windborne. "The gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown." listen (3/1/21)
• Donde Voy (“Where I Go”) by Tish Hinojosa For Cinco de Mayo: a love song written for refugees crossing the desert. watch (5/6/21)
• Don't Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down by Eric Bibb  Don't let nobody turn you round.... watch (6/11/20)
• Douglas Mountain Snows are falling on Douglas Mtn, putting the bears to sleep. listen to rec by Raffi. in RUS  "Lullabies" p132 (12/21/21)
• Down by the Salley Gardens - the William Butler Yeats 1889 poem. 1973 recording by Clannad. 2019 recording by Dervish featuring Kate Rusby. (St Patrick's Day 2021)
• Down to Zero by Jim Page. Resistance goes from hand to hand / For the air, the water, the people, the land / Tomorrow is born from the seeds of today live rec by Christy Moore rec by Page (4/20/22)
• Dream a Litte Dream of Me as sung byElla Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong  listen on page 78 in the "Golden Oldies" chapter of RUS (2/6/22)
• The Dutchman by Michael Peter Smith. A tender love song about two older lovers. watch live rec by Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy. in RUS "Time & Changes" p.233 (10/20/21)
• Ederlezi is a song of Romani people in Serbia. Images celebrating Roma pride. watch (5/23/20)
• Ella's Song by Bernice Reagon Johnson sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock. For George Floyd. We who believe in freedom cannot rest.  watch  (5/29/20)
• Elijah Played the Violin - by David Rovics. For Elijah McClain - killed for the color of his skin. Black lives matter.  watch (9/3/20)
• Elijah by Bill Harley, choral arrangment by Peter Amidon. For Elijah McClain (d. 8/24/19) Black Lives Matter.  watch (9/1/20)
• Even You by Tom Prasada-Rao  When it’s impossible to right the wrong, there’s still a refuge where we both belong. watch (8/3/20)
• Every Little Thing by Bob Marley. Sweet songs of melodies pure & true. listen + "songs around the world" cover from Playing for Change project. (in RA "Hope" p.139 - 6/29/21)
• Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right by Blind Willie Johnson. All of us down here are strangers... orig 1930 rec - adap by Moira Smiley, sung by Tonality. (12/21/21)
• Everyday by Buddy Holly - one of those we lost way too early. Love like yours will surely come my way... cover by Fiona Apple (2/12/21) 
• Everything Possible by Fred Small. As sung by Rainbow Harmony Project in Winnepeg. watch (2/28/21)
• Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. Is your car fast enough that we can fly away?  watch (9/13//20)
• Farthest Field by David Dodson. One day we'll wend our way up to that field... watch On p. 269 in the "Time & Changes" chapter of RA (2/14/22)
• Father & Son by Yusuf/Cat Stevens. There are not a lot of songs about father-son relationships, much less a tender one... watch (in RA p.63 - 3/28/21)
• Fear Not the Pain by Rachel Kroh, Peter Amidon & Rainer Maria Rilke. For those lost to COVID & Black Lives Matter. video by East Side United Church in Toronto (5/23/22)
• Feeling Good as sung by Nina Simone. With a new video featuring empowered Black women & girls. watch (5/29/22)
• Festival by Khaled Siddiq in celebration of Eid al-Fitr. May God's blessings be showered upon you.  watch (5/24/20)
• Fields of Gold - rec by the amazing Eva Cassidy, whom we lost so soon. A tender summer love song by Sting. watch (10/16/20)
• Fight Like a Girl by Raye Zaragoza. Honoring the pain many feel in response to today's Supreme Court decision ending Roe watch (6/24/22)
• Final Trawl - a lovely ballad by the incomparable Archie Fisher. watch (9/4/20)
• Fishin' Blues as rec by Taj Mahal. Bought that time... listen - cover by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (in RA "Blues" p.10 - 7/1/21)
• Floy Joy by Smokey Robinson. Sung by Mary Wilson (Mar. 6,1944-Feb. 8, 2021), a founding member of the Supremes. watch (2/9/21)
• Focus & Fire by Niyonu Spann & The Nuyoni Singers. Speak it now & bring it through. listen (7/3/21)
• For Real by Bob Franke. There's too much darkness in an endless night to be afraid of the way we feel. live rec by Bob - cover by Lui Collins (2/4/21)
• For the Mothers by Betsy Rose. An antiwar song for what was originally called Mother's Day for Peace listen on pg. 28 in the "Dignity" chap of Rise Again (4/9/22)
• For Your Dignity by Annie Patterson. For the kitchen workers of the world. watch (12/9/20)
• Forever Young by Bob (our only Nobel Laureate folksinger).  May you always do for others & let others do for you.  watch - live recording with The Band (12/8/20)
• Four Women (Nina Simone) Her amazing song about 4 African American with very different skin tones & life stories watch (3/14/21)Freedom by Jon Batiste. We're overdue for a little more prancing... watch (9/1/21)
• Freeborn Man by Ewan MacColl About the Irish & Scottish Travellers. watch with rec by The Dubliners listen to MacColl rec  - on p.273 in "Travelin'" chapter of RA (3/20/22)
• Freedom by Ranky Tanky. This Grammy-winning SC band is rooted in Gullah music and culture. watch video live rec (9/3/21)
• Freedom Highway by Rhiannon Giddens. The whole world is wondering, what's wrong with the United States? listen (4/22/21)
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle  "We've struggled so long, we must be free."  watch  (7/19/20)
• From the Lambing to the Wool by Judy Small. One more unusual love song - this one about 2 sheep growers in Australia. orig rec by Small (10/22/21)
• A Garden of My Own by Patricia McKernon. Written for 1st woman on Minnesota Supreme Court. So this one's for Ketanji Brown Jackson. watch video by VA Children's Chorus. on p270 in "Time" chapter of RA. (4/7/22)
• Gathering of Spirits by Carrie Newcomer. We'll take up where we left off when we all meet again. watch (in RA "Friendship & Community" p.84 7/18/21)
• Gathering Storm by James Keelaghan. Trust in love & do no harm. listen (3/13/21)
• Get Up, Stand Up  by Bob Marley & Peter Tosh, from Playing for Change. Now you see the light: stand up for your rights.  watch  (5/9/20)
• Give Light by Magpie. Based on words of Ella Baker. Stand together & people will find the way  watch  (5/15/20)
• Give Me Birds at the Dawning arr. by Peter & Mary Alice Amidon view post (9/14/22)
• Give Us Justice by Thee Sacred Souls. Written in June 2020 for George Floyd. For the Ahmaud Arbery & Kyle Rittenhouse trials. listen (11/11/21)
• Glory by John Legend & Common.(from the film "Selma"). Now we right the wrongs in history.  watch  (6/9/20)
• Glory Bound by Ruth Moody of the wonderful Wailin' Jennys. Longing for a better home... listen in RA "Gospel & Spirituals" p112 (11/7/21)
• God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday. watch live rec with Count Basie. Andra Day was nominated for an Oscar for actress in a leading role in "The US vs. Billie Holiday". listen to Day's performance in film (5/4/21)
• Golden Apples of the Sun as rec by Judy Collins. A setting of W.B.Yeats' poem "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" listen (9/30/21)
• Gone, Gonna Rise Again by Si Kahn. watch The seeds we plant now iin our work for justice & the earth will bear fruit for generations to come. Sung by Annie Patterson.  (10/5/20)
• Gonna Get Through This World - by Woody Guthrie (w) & Lisa Gutkin (m). We're gonna clean up this world - and we think we can...   watch (4/17/20)
• Gonna Live the Life I Sing About by Thomas A. Dorsey, sung by Mahalia Jackson - who closed the Democratic National Convention in 1956.  I can't sing one thing & then live another.  watch (8/23/20)
• Gonna Take Us All by Jon Fromer. For all those most directly threatened by the racist violence facing our nation. watch (1/15/21)
• Gotta Serve Somebody by Bob Dylan sung by Mavis Staples. Time for some folks to choose whom they're gonna serve...   watch (6/27/20)
• Government on Horseback by Si Kahn. For Ronnie but also for Donald...  watch (9/29/20)
• Gracias a la Vida by Chilean pioneer of the nueva canción movement, Violeta Parra. Affirming love and life in the time of COVID. watch  (8/7/20)
• Guide My Feet led by Cordell Reagon of The Freedom Singers. Stand by me as I run this race.  watch (7/8/20)
• Hal-An-Tow (Helston Furry) - Summer is a-coming in & winter's gone away-o.  watch  (5/2/20)
• Hallelujah by Katherine Wheatley - looking forward to when traveling musicians can hit the road again!  watch (5/28/20)
• Hanuka Dance by Woody Guthrie. from rec by The Klezmatics Around & around you go! children video (12/12/20)
• Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan. I'll tell it & think it & speak it & breathe it. watch (8/9/20)
• Hard Traveling by Woody Guthrie. Haven't we been doing some hard traveling this last year? these last 4 years? 400 years? 2020 cover by Todd Snider (in RUS "Travelin'" p233 - 6/14/21)
• Hatred Has No Place - by David Heitler-Klevans of Two of a Kind. No hate, no fear - anywhere.  watch  (4/18/20)
• Hatred, We're Gonna Tear Your Kingdom Down. Adap of gospel classic by Shirley Caesar. Sung by Yara Allen during a Moral Monday in March 2016.  watch (4/9/21)
• Have You Been to Jail for Justice? by Anne Feeney (7/1/51-2/3/21).  "We have wonderful free speech rights in this country as long as we exercise those rights ineffectively." watch (2/5/21)
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Wishing you connection, comfort & healing in this holiday season. a new video by Norah Jones (12/25/20)
• Healing in This Night by Bob Franke.    watch (7/3/20)
• Healing River - from Pete Seeger's "I Can See a New Day" album. There are so many deep changes needed in this land beyond conquering a virus.  "O seed of freedom, awake & flourish..."  watch  (4/15/20)
• Heart of Gold by Neil Young. I want to give. I want to live. orig rec released by Young in 1972. cover by Johnny Cash. (11/13/21)
• Hello Young Lovers by Rodgers & Hammerstein. I am turning 75 today and this is the song that came up for me. It always makes me cry when Annie sings it... listen to rec by Julie Andrews. watch from "King & I" 1956 film. in RA "Musicals" p180 (8/26/21)
• Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison. It's been a long cold lonely winter... listen (in RUS "Outdoors" p153 - 6/1/21)
• Hear My Voice by Celeste .Oscar Week: 'Trial of the Chicago 7".  watch (4/28/21)
• Here Is My Home by Si Kahn (choral arr. by Peter & Mary Alice Amidon) Come darkness, come light! watch  (5/7/20)
• Here Is My Home by Si Kahn.  Come darkness! Come light! Where are we bound? watch video by Portland (OR) Lesbian Choir (12/17/21)
• Hills of Isle au Haut by Gordon Bok. It's away & to the westward is the place a man should go...  watch (12/7/20)
• His Eye Is on the Sparrow, sung by Gladys Knight at Kennedy Center annual "Let Freedom Ring" celebration of MLK's legacy watch (6/20/21)
• Hold On as sung by Mavis Staples. Honoring today's centennial of the Race Massacre in Tulsa OK. watch (in RUS "Freedom" p60 - 4/31/21)
• Hold On Just a Little Bit Longer by Rev. Cleophus Robinson Jr. Sing on just a little bit longer. Fight on...  watch (6/22/20)
• Holy Earth, Ancient Home by Geoffrey Hudson & Sarah Metcalf. Help us mend what has gone awry & learn your wiser ways. watch (5/1/22)
• Holy Ground by Betsy Rose. May our hearts be open & all our fears released. And may we stand for justice wherever suffering's found. watch (4/19/21)
• Holy Now by Peter Mayer. On finding miracles in many places. watch video - cover by Faith Rivera. in RA "Faith" p54 (12/2/21)
• Home - popularized by Phillip Phillips. Just know you're not alone. Watch video by PS22 Chorus. (12/30/20)
• Home Is Where the Heart Is by Sally Fingerett. As sung by Peter, Paul & Mary. Inside your heart where love is - is where you've got to make yourself a home. watch (12/4/20)
• Hope for One & All by David Mallett. There's hope for you & me - even when our backs are against the wall. watch (12/29/20)
• Hope Lingers On by Lissa Schneckenburger of Low Lily - video by Boston Children's Choir. I will not hate & I will not fear. watch (11/7//20)
• How Beautiful Upon the Mountain by Tom Paxton - his rec. For the first time in 56 years - a bloody Sunday without John Lewis. John Lewis presente! cover by Charlie King & Karen Brandow. (3/7/21)
• How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) by Holland-Dozier-Holland. orig rec by Marvin Gaye - gospel version by Helen Baylor (in RA "Motown and R&B" p. 174 - 7/16/21)
• I Ain't Got No Home in This World by Woody Guthrie. The gambling man is rich & the working man is poor.   watch (7/15/20)
• I Am a Patriot by Steve Van Zandt, sung by Jackson Browne. We can't turn our backs this time.  watch (7/2/20)
• I Am a Wanderer by Steve Earle. Eye on the star above some distant shore... - for all those forced to leaave their homes. cover by Joan Baez (2/18/21)
• I Am Willing - by Holly Near. To be hopeless dishonors those who go before us.  watch  (4/26/20)
• I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash (August 19, 1940-October 6, 2020)  watch (10/9//20)
• I Can't Breathe by H.E.R. (2021 Grammy for Song of the Year). She asks "Will anyone fight for me?" - watch (3/15/21)
• I Cannot Sleep  by Malvina Reynolds, sung by Jon Fromer & Francisco Herrera. Too many hungry & homeless.  watch (5/13/20)
• I Could Have Danced All Night by Lerner & Loewe. watch film clip with Audrey Heburn (sung by Marni Nixon). orig Broadway rec by Julie Andrews. In RUS "Creativity" p.94 (8/27/21)
• I Don't Feel No Ways Tired. Gospel classic sung by The Barrett Sisters. We've not come this far to be left here!   watch (6/14/20)
• I Don't Feel No Ways Tired - a wonderful recent cover of the James Cleveland classic by the acoustic band Infinity Song and Peter Collins. listen (On p. 114 in the "Gospel & Spirituals" chapter of RA - 4/18/21)
• I Don't Know, But LOL! by Sweet Honey in the Rock. I know I can raise my voice & sing about love & let freedom reign (rain) watch (6/8/21)
• I Don't Mind Failing in This World by Malvina Reynolds - a terrific anthem about not letting the world define you or your success! listen (2/25/21)
• I Dreamed I Saw Anne Feeney by David Rovics. Written for singer songwriter, activist & attorney Anne Feenry who died Feb. 3rd of COVID-19.  watch (4/10/21)
• I Feel the Earth Move by Carole King. All over...  From "Tapestry" album. (in RA "Surfing USA" p262 - 8/2/21)
• I Have Seen Freedom Being Born by Si Kahn, sung by Charlie King & Annie Patterson. Would I have known had I not heard their stories? watch (6/30/20)
• I Hear a Call - sung by Emmylou Harris.  How are we being called today? Can we be there for those facing COVID alone? watch (9/18/20)
• I Live Not Where I Love - sung by Mary Black. A haunting trad. English love song. listen (on pg. 4 in RA "Ballads & Old Songs" - 4/2/21)
•  I Will by Paul McCartney. As rec by Alison Krauss on her 1995 "Now That I've Found You" album. orig 1968 rec by The Beatles - in RA "British Invasion" p17 (2/10/22)

• I'm Gonna Lift My Sister Up  by Faya Rose Touré (first Black judge in Alabama). If we don't lift her up, we will fall down...  For RBG. watch  (9/23/20)

• I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About by Thomas A. Dorsey, sung by Mahalia Jackson - who closed the Democratic National Convention in 1956.  I can't sing one thing & then live another.  watch (8/23/20)
• I Need You to Suvive Amherst Area Gospel Choir at a 2017 interfaith climate gathering. I need you. You need me.  watch  (5/12/20)
• I Will Bow & Be Simple 1847 Shaker song, written for use in their communal sacred dancing. a cappella rec by The Nields - listen to rec by Enfield Shaker Singers - in RUS "Faith" p43 (1/23/22)
• I Will Stand Fast by Fred Small. Nightmare & fear, they have no power here. listen in RA "Healing" p121 (12/1/21)
• I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. As long as we know how to love, we will survive!  watch  (5/16/20)
• I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free - Nina Simone classic (and on Annie's new"Fearless" CD) Sung here by Emeli Sande.  watch  (7/25/20)
• I'm Proud to Be a Socialist by Jay Mankita - the perfect antidote to those getting gastric distress from our capitalist system... watch (7/28/22)
• If I Had a Hammer by Lee Hays & Pete Seeger.. All over this land... cover by the Blind Boys of Alabama (on p.215 in RUS "Struggle" - 4/6/21) 
• If Not Now by Carrie Newcomer. Although there will be struggle, we'll make the change we can. watch 12/6/20
• In the Bleak Midwinter What can I give him, poor as I am? I can give my heart. rec in Glouster Cathedral 12/16/20
• In the Jailhouse Now by Jimmie Rodgers. I told him once or twice to quit playin' cards & shootin' dice. watch cover by Johnny Cash & Merle Haggard. (in RA "Blues" p.11 - 7/8/21)
• Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) by Marvin Gaye. Say their names.  watch (6/18/20)
• The Irish Ballad Why are so many traditional ballads gory? Here are mathematician Tom Lehrer's pointed reflections on this question: watch - cover by Irish opera singer Naomi O'Connell. (In RUS "Funny Songs" p.73 - 7/22/21)
• It Isn't Nice by Malvina Reynolds, new recording by Reggie Harris.  You were quiet just like mice - now you say that we aren't nice. watch (6/13/20) 
• It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go by Nanci Griffith. If we poison our children with hatred, then a hard life is all that they'll know. watch (in RA "Rich & Poor" p224 - 8/19/21)
• It's a Hard Life by Nanci Griifith. If we poison our children with hatred, a hard life is all they will know. listen to rec by Annie Patterson - on p224 in "Rich & Poor" chap of RA (3/20/22)
• Jerusalem by Steve Earle - a song of peace for a "way out of no way" - for the innocents dying in Palestine & Israel. watch (in RA "Peace" p203 - 5/19/21)
• Jesus Christ by Woody Guthrie. If Jesus was to preach like he did in Galilee, they would lay Jesus Christ in his grave. listen On p. 183 in "Rich & Poor" chap of RUS. (4/16/22)
• Jesus Won't You Come by Here? - trad. gospel. Now is certainly a needed time...  Listen to cover by bluesman Eric Bibb (in RUS "Gospel" p. 94 - 4/21/21)
• Jock O'Hazeldean. A Child Ballad (#293) with a happy ending: Rich man tries to force woman in love with someone else to marry his son, but she runs way with her own true love. rec by Dick Gaughan rec by Priscilla Herdman In RUS "Ballads" p11 (11/5/21)
• John O'Dreams by Bill Caddick. Home is the rover. His journey over. Yield up the nighttime to old John O'Dreams... rec by Bok, Muir & Trickett rec by Jean Redpath in RUS "Lullabies" p131 (12/19/21)
• Jolene by Dolly Parton. orig 1973 rec - cover by The Petersens family bluegrass band. (in RA "Country" p23 - 7/29/21)
• Julian of Norwich - by Sydney Carter, off recording by Bok, Muir & Trickett. "All shall be well again..."  watch (4/11/20)
• Keep On Moving Forward performed by Emma's Revolution and Melanie DeMore incl new Spanish lyrics "Sigamos Adalante” watch (aka Never Turning Back - in Struggle chap of RUS p.216) 5/9/21
• Keep On Moving It On  - by Odetta. For RBG. And all the work we've got to do!   watch (9/26/20)
• Keep Your Eyes on the Prize as sung by Mavis Staples. Honoring today's centennial of the Race Massacre in Tulsa OK. watch (in RUS "Freedom" p60 - 4/31/21)
• L'chi Lach by Debbie Friedman & Savina Teubal. We are all traveling together right now "to a place we do not know."   watch  (4/13/20)
• Lady of the Harbor by Joe Jencks. Will we still welcome them with open arms?  watch  (5/22/20)
• Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream by Ed McCurdy. Keep that dream alive. listen to Pete Seeger's original 1956 recording. in RUS "Peace" p161 (5/31/22)
• Lay Down Your Weary Song by Bob Dylan. Because everyone deserves care & justice. (for SAFPAW.org supporting the homeless community)  watch (9/5/20)
• Lay My Burdens Down sung by Bernice Johnson Reagon. We don't have to carry it all alone.  watch (8/13/20)
• Leave Her Johnny "The voyage is done & the wind don't blow..." Rec by La Nef (dir. by Seán Dagher - check out his Shanty of the Week series.) Rec by The Longest Johns.  (2/23/21) 
• L'dor Vador by Rena Brnason Generations to come demand that we act now! video (Earth Day - 4/22/22)
• Lessons of the Heart by Batya Levine Hey: you're doing OK. It's gonna take time... listen (1/24/22)
• Let It Be (Lennon-McCartney) sung by Carol Woods & Timothy Mitchum from the film "Across the Universe" that features Beatles' songs nestled in plot lines relating to the pain & world changes of the 1960's. watch (in RUS "Hope" p117 - 5/17/21)
• Let Justice Roll Down by Aileen Vance. When the way gets rough we'll make a new way... watch (12/11/20)
• Let the Sun Shine Down on Me by Jean Ritchie.  Ritchie's rec  She knew there's a great day coming...   a wonderful community choral video of song  (9/17/20)
• The Liar Tweets Tonight (Vote Him Away) by Roy Zimmerman.  Join our virtual Sing Out the Vote campaign at riseupandsing.org/vote  watch (9/9/20)
• Lift Every Voice & Sing by Stanford Talisman. A powerful new video. We can see in these faces who we can be as a nation. watch (1/18/21 MLK Day)
• Light Is Returning by Charlie Murphy for the Winter Solstice! rec with Jami Sieber & The Total Experience Gospel Choir. (12/21/20)
• Light One Candle by Peter Yarrow. Don't let the light go out! watch (12/11/2))
• Long Kesh by Matt Jones of SNCC Freedom Singers, new v. by Magpie. John Lewis presente: His spirit keeps on living! watch (7/23/20)
• Look Again to the Wind by Peter La Farge. By Mohican singer songwriter & Native American flute player Bill Miller. listen (11/19/21)
• Look 'Em in the Eye by Reggie Harris. Do what you're doin’ - try to set the spark. Stand your ground! Black lives matter.  watch (1/8/21)
• Look to the People by Ruth Pelham. We're gonna look to the people justice in the hard times coming ahead... watch (1/28/21)
• Lord, Bliow the Moon Out, Please (trad. lullaby). RIP Eric Carle (1929-2021) whose many wonderful children's books include Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me. listen to rec by Rosemary Phelan (in RUS "Lullabies" p134 - 5/27/21)
• Lord Franklin, sung by Kevin Burke & MÍCHEÁL Ó DOMHNAILL. A sad & tender love song for a time when we need love, including for those we've lost.  watch (8/12/20)
• Love at the Five & Dime by Nanci Griffith (1953-2021). Honoring one of our best singer songwriters who died Friday at age 68. watch (in RA "Love" p.153 - 8/16/21)
• Love Call Me Home by Peggy Seeger. Remembering 400,000 lost in U.S. - 2 million around the world. as rec by Peggy - watch video by Guilford (VT) Community Church Choir  (1/26/21)
• Love Chooses You by Laurie Lewis. Your heart has to folow when love takes your hand. orig rec cover by Kathy Mattea. In RA "Love" p.154 (10/29/21)
• Love Is All Around by Ruth Pelham. May the road we travel be paved with peace. listen in RA "Peace" p.205 (11/2/21)
• Love Minus Zero / No Limit by Bob Dylan - his great tender love song, a day late for Valentine's Day. cover by Eliza Gilkyson (2/14/21)
• Love's in Need of Love Today by Stevie Wonder. Hate's going round. We can stop it. watch (6/6/20)
• Lovely Agnes by Sally Rogers. We once visited Sally's grandmother's orchard near Lake Michigan. The trees were heavy laden with cherries. listen in RUS "Love" p.126 (10/27/21)
• Low to the Ground by Libby Roderick. Libby singing song  Live close to the earth.   child dancing to song (10/22/20)
• Many & the Few For the last night of Hanukkah. Woody Guthrie tells the story of The Maccabees. From recording by The Klezmatics  (12/17/20) 
• Many Sparks Made a Fire by Eve Goldberg & Jane Lewis. We gather all the embers we can find. listen (4/28/22)
• El Martillo by Victor Jara (Spanish take on "If I Had a Hammer") Warn about the danger that we must unite to defend peace. orig Jara rec 2019 collective rec in support of the Chilian people (4/7/21)
• Martin Said to His Man (marking Tony Barrand's passing) Who's the fool now? Roberts & Barrand's 1971 rec - in RUS "Funny Songs" p.73 (2/4/22)
• Mary Had a Baby trad. African American Spiritual. As sung by Pete Seeger watch (12/24/20)
• Master of the Sheepfold - recorded by Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen. That the poor & disenfranchised may be safely gathered in.  watch  (4/12/20)
• May I Suggest by Susan Werner. Inside you know what's yours to set right. a cappella rec by Red Molly - Werner live with cellist Julia Biber - in RA "Hope" p137 (1/10/22)
• May the Road Rise to Meet You sung by Emmet Cahill (of Celtic Thunder) - a lovely setting of the traditional Irish blessing watch (5/7/21)
• Mean Things Happenin' in This Land by John Handcox. The people are goin' on & the people are growin' strong. watch (Handcox) watch (Teresa Healy & Tom Juravich) (7/10/20)
• Men of the Fields by Buffy Sainte-Marie. If we learn to follow Indigenous farming practices we can feed the earth justly and sustainably. watch (10/17/20)
• Mi Sheiberach by Debbie Friedman. For Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020)  watch (9/19/20)
• Missionaries by Floyd Westerman. Painful truth about how Christians have viewed and treated people of other faiths. watch (10/18/2) 
• Mohabbat as sung Arooj Aftab. It takes years to absorb the wisdom & passion of old Sufi poems - & to feel them within our bodies. listen (3/27/22)
• Monster Mash performed by Bobby Pickett. It was a graveyard smash...  watch (10/31/20)
• More Than Enough written by Robb Johnson. as sung by Rob Bailey If we learned to need less & love more, there's be enough for the poor.   Martin Simpson says the final verse of this song was the last thing Rob Bailey sang. (8/8/20)
• Mother Earth by Joanne Shenandoah & Walela. Respect the earth & her giving ways or trade away our children's days. listen (11/23/21)
• Mother, We'll Meet Again by Reye Zaragoza. This is one of several of her songs featured in the 2020 documentary film "Gather: The Fight to Revive Our Native Foodways". watch (12/22/20)
• Motherless Child sung by Odetta. We're still a long ways from home.  watch (6/5/20)
• Mountain Song by Holly Near.  For RBG. A giant of a woman in a small frame.  watch  - rec with Emma's Revolution (9/27/20) 
• Move It On Over by Hank Williams. Doing all we can to make sure someone packs up in January! watch (10/1/20)
• Needed Time - trad. gospel. Now is certainly a needed time...  Listen to cover by bluesman Eric Bibb (in RUS "Gospel" p. 94 - 4/21/21)
• Never Gonna Break My Faith by Aretha Franklin  Faith & hope ain't yours to give, Truth & liberty are mine to live.  watch (8/1/20)
• Never One Thing by May Erlewine. Erlewine video For RBG. We shall not give up the fight, we have only started. Patterson/Witt rec (9/21/20)
• Never Turning Back (aka Keep On Moving Forward) performed by Emma's Revolution and Melanie DeMore incl new Spanish lyrics "Sigamos Adalante” watch (aka Never Turning Back - in Struggle chap of RUS p.216) 5/9/21
• No More Auction Block sung by Paul Robeson. Many thousands gone.  watch (8/4/20)
• No One Is Alone for Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021). Hard to see the light now, just don't let it go orig Broadway rec (11/27/21)
• No Sweat! by Bev Grant & Pat Humphries. Happy glorious 80th to "badass" Bev. recording by Brooklyn Women's Chorus - recording by Pat Humphries (3/30/22)
• No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley & the Wailers. A song of hope & healing for those who have lost loved ones to violence. Black lives matter. watch - cover by Marley's granddaughter Mystic. (6/30/21)
• Nobody's Fault but Mine by Blind Willie Johnson. Not about blame but about taking responsibility to be the change the world needs. live conc rec by Lea Gilmore. (1/29/21)
• None of Us Are Free. Say their names. orig rec by Ray Charles. 2002 Grammy-winning rec by Solomon Burke with the Blind Boys of Alabama. (12/23/20)
• Not by Might by Linda Hirschhorn. Not by power, but by love. listen (5/18/22)
• Not Even a Wounded World - another tender healing song from the Tom Prasada-Rao  listen (New Years Day 2022)
• Not Fade Away by Buddy Holly. A love for real - not fade away. orig 1957 Crickets rec 1964 TV live rec by Rolling Stones. In RA "Rock Around the Clock" p233 (11/10/21)
• Now Is the Cool of the Day by Jean Ritchie. "You may live in this garden if you keep the people free." recording by Annie Patterson (1/16/21)
• O Freedom!  For Juneteenth. Goin' home.  watch (6/19/20)
• Oak & Ash & Thorn Peter Bellamy's setting to a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Mourning the loss the much beloved traditional English singer Tony Barrand on Saturday. rec by John Roberts & Tony Bellamy's version (1/30/22)
• Oh Happy Day as sung by Aretha Franklin with Mavis Staples. Watch, fight & pray. watch (11/8/20)
• Old Devil Time by Pete Seeger. When I feel afraid, my lovers gather round... watch (12/5/20)
• Old Friends by Mary McCaslin (1946-2022) - view post (10/14/22)
• Old Friends by Simon & Garfunkel. From their 2003 Old Friends Live on Stage tour. watch (in RUS "Time & Changes" p226 - 8/2/21)
• One Drum by Native Caandian singer Leela Gilday. Celebrating McGirt v. Oklahoma. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.  watch (7/11/20)
• One Foot / Lead with Love - by Melanie DeMore. Here I am right next to you...  watch  (4/24/20)
• Our House Is On Fire by Emma's Revolution. For Greta Thunberg and all the young people fighting for our planet.  watch (8/10/20)
• One in Six by Charlie King & Rick Burkhardt. Black lives matter.  watch (6/17/20)
• One Love by Bob Marley, as performed by Playing for Change. Pleading for one humankind.  watch (8/15/20)
• One World by Mike Stern. One day when our anger & pride lie down. listen in RA "Peace" p205 (2/16/22)
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Neil Young. What if your world should fall apart? cover by Gwyneth Herbert. orig 1970 rec (11/17/21)
• Oseh Shalom (trad. Israeli) May the One who makes peace in the high places make peace over us & over all of humanity. rec by Nefesh Mountain (in RUS "Peace" p.163 - 3/29/21)
• Our Life Is More Than Our Work by Charlie King. See all there is to just being alive listen (orig. 1978 rec) In RUS "Work" p.257 (12/5/21)
• Our Power by Rena Branson.  We will not underestimate our power any longer - we know together, we are strong. watch (1/31/21)
• Paradise by John Prine. Are we turning the whole planet into a strip mine? watch in RUS "Mountain Voices" p.149 (8/22/21)
• The Parting Glass (trad. Irish) For those we love. And those we miss.  Godwana Chorale  Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen  (11/21/20)
• Parting Ways by Cody ChestnuTT. watch ChestnuTT Oscar Week: "Soul" - winner of best animated film.  watch the film clip (4/30/21)
• Pass It Along by Scott Cook. A new video produced by Cook and Bob Bossin for Earth Day (joined by Peggy Seeger & many others). watch (4/24/21)
• Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie sung by Dave Van Ronk. Migrants are still “putting the fruit on our table” as they did when Guthrie wrote the song in 1941.watch (in RUS "Farm" p55 - 5/18/21)
• Peace in the Valley by Thomas A. Dorsey, performed by Sam Cooke. For John Lewis. "Be no sadness, no sorrow, no trouble I'll see.:  watch (7/26/20)
• Peace Is by Fred Small. The soldier referred to in verse 3 is Dwight D. Eisenhower. listen - in RUS "Peace" p.163 (3/8/22)
• Peace Round by Jean Ritchie (1922-2015). O what a goodly thing if the children of all earth could dwell together in peace. listen / watch Ritchie at Revels. (in RUS "Sacred Rounds & Chants" p.195 - 8/23/21)
• Peace, Salaam, Shalom written by Pat Humphries. A moving recording of the song "Peaace through All People". watch (1/9/21)
• Peace Will Come by Tom Paxton. My own life is all that I can control. Paxton with a children's choir Paxton with Pete Seeger in RA "Peace" p206 (3/2/22)
• The Peacemaker Is Born by Joanne Shenandoah (1958-2021). We have lost a world-renowned Oneida singer, composer & human rights/peace activist. listen (11/23/21)
• People Get Ready by Curtis Mayfield. There's change a-coming... cover by Aaron Neville & The Blind Boys of Alabama. cover by Eva Cassidy. (2/22/21)
• People Gonna Rise like the Water. I hear the voice of my great granddaughter, saying "Keep it in the ground!" watch (11/19/20)
• People Like You by Si Kahn ...help all of us go on. Listen to cover by Charlie King In RUS "Friendship" p.67 (12/6/21)
• Petites Boites - French translation by Graeme Allright of "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds. And now we have little boxes on our screens! listen to rec by Kate & Anna McGarrigle (orig. English is in RUS "America" pg 2 - 4/15/21)
• The Pill by Loretta Lynn (1932-2022) - country singer songwriter empowering women. view post (10/12/22)
• A Place Called England by Maggie Holland. Come all you at home with freedom, whatever the land that gave you birth. listen - on p227 in the "Rich&Poor" ch of RA (7/12/22)
• Power by Rena Branson.  We will not underestimate our power any longer - we know together, we are strongwatch (1/31/21)
• Prove It On  Me Blues by Ma Rainey. Oscar Week: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" cover by Bessie Smith - orig rec by Ma Rainey. (4/27/21)
• Put a Woman in Charge as sung by Keb' Mo' & Rosanne Cash. Dedicated to his mother - as a tribute to her & to "amazing women everywhere that are getting the job done." watch (7/18/22)
• Put Your Roots Down, sung by Thrive Choir. Are you listening? watch (6/18/21) 
• Quiet Hills by Claudia Schmidt. There is darkness in these hills, but I am not afraid. rec with Sally Rogers live rec by Laurie Lewis. in RUS "Hope" p.137 (10/28/21)
• Rainbow Connection from the great, tender Willie Nelson (and Sesame Street). Have you been half asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name.  watch  (5/11/20)
• Ready for the Storm - by Dougie MacLean. With you by my side, I should have realized I had no reason to be frightened...   watch (4/16/20)
• Red Rocking Chair as rec by Annie Patterson. Another "odd love song" Annie is performing with Charlie King. listen in RA "Old-Timey & Bluegrass" p. 189 (10/21/21)
• Red-winged Blackbird by David Francey. Another incredibly beautiful day in Western Mass. Saw a cardinal outside our window... watch (10/19/20)
• Resilient by Rising Appalachia.  We'll show up at the table - again & again & again... watch (1/10/21)
• Rickety Tickety Tin (The Irish Ballad) Why are so many traditional ballads gory? Here are mathematician Tom Lehrer's pointed reflections on this question: watch - cover by Irish opera singer Naomi O'Connell. (In RUS "Funny Songs" p.73 - 7/22/21)
• Right Here by Sam Turton. Sam performed his beautiful anthem at our concert with 5 Canadian folksingers last night. recording by Gathering Sparks (in RA p.138 - 3/21/21)
• Ring in the New Year (a round). Wishing you "joy, joy, joy!"  watch (12/31/20)
• Rise As One by Aaron Fowler. We will win - standing side by side!  watch  (7/9/20)
• Rise As One by Joe Jencks. The Dem. convention was about people standing together. This song is for people in Red towns fighting for their teachers.  watch (8/22/20)
• Rise Up by Andra Day for Ahmaud Arbery. I'll rise unafraid & do it a thousand times again. watch  (5/8/20)
• Rise Up  by Melanie DeMore.  How can children shape their future if they're hungry all day long? watch (10/28/20)
• Rivers of Babylon by The Melodians. How can we sing King Alfa's song in a strange land? listen (in RUS  "Freedom" p.63 - 6/27/21)
• Rockin' in a Weary Land by Lorraine Lee Hammond. May love guide each & every hand. cover by Priscilla Herdman. In RA "Earthcare" p.49 (11/30/31)
• Roll On Woody - by Reggie Harris. You gave us hope by singing your song.  watch  (4/28/20)
• Roll the Union On by John Handcox & Lee Hays. Celebrating working people & our unions. From the 1941 Almanac Singers "Talking Union" album.  watch (9/7/20)
• Roll to the River by Cindy Kallet.  That the river may carry us. watch (9/15/20)
• The Rose - in RUS "Hope" p.118. rec by PS22 Chorus on Staten Island. rec with harp by Susan Mashiyama. (7/14/21)
• Rosebud in June as rec by Steeleye Span. We'll pipe & we'll sing, love - we'll dance in a ring... watch (11/18/20)
• Roseville Fair by Bill Staines. So here's a song for all the lovers...  cover by Liam Clancy & Gemma Hayes orig 1979 rec - in RUS "Love" p127 (2/8/22)
• Row On - a trad. 19th c. whaler's poem, set to music by Tim Laycock. There's dawn beyond the night.  watch (8/16/20)
• Safe in the Harbor by Eric Bogle. For the dreamers we've lost. rec by Bogle cover by David Coffin (2/3/21)
• Sailing Down My Golden River by Pete Seeger. And I was never alone... listen (in RUS "Traveling" chapter p235 - 6/11/21)
• Salaam (Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu) from the band Sheva. Sheva has travelled the world spreading the hope for peace in the Middle East.  watch (8/28/20)​
• The Same Boat, Brother by Yip Harburg & Earl Robinson. For the Glasgow Climate Summit: Wake up world! rec by Robinson a cappella rec by Lead Belly (11/3/21)
• The Same Water by John Sheldon.  For Standing Rock. Protectors, still standing, no weapons in our hands... watch (11/10/20)
• Sawaenemiyah by Wade Fernandez ("Walks with the Black Wolf") of Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin. From "Breathe & Flow". watch (11/26/20)
• Schedar by Peter Fischman. The stars still guide the way. watch (2/17/21)
• The Scientist - a tender love song from Coldplay. watch rec by Kina Grannis & Tyler Ward - orig 2002 Coldplay video - in RA "Millenial Songs" p176 (1/26/22)
• Seasons of Love from Rent. Honoring victims of March 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando - and all those we've lost to COVID. watch (2/11/21)
• Season of Peace by Si Kahn. Now on this earth all shattered & torn, may our hopes be like the season reborn. watch (1/7/21)
• The Seeds of War w: John Woolman, m: Paulette Meier. Where are the seeds of war, justice & climate catastrophe in our own way of life? listen (in RA "Peace" p207 - 6/2/21)
• Senzenina What have we done?  watch (6/21/20)
• She's a Rainbow by Rolling Stones - women's rights video by Molly Tuttle view post (9/18/22
• Shelter from the Storm - one of many Dylan songs that only grow deeper over the years...  rec by Claire Anne Taylor - rec by Sachal Jazz Ensemble - in RA "Hope" p138 (1/8/22)
• Shenandoah by Anais Mitchell. (In a 2019 MS Magazine interview, Mitchell said she was "very inspired" when she was younger by Rise Up Singing). watch In RA "Outdoors" p.195 (9/9/21)
• Shine by Munit & Z Lovebugs. Don't you know - we're stardust? watch (4/23/21)
• Shine On by May Erlewine. live performance with Sawyer Fredericks There is work to do done in the dark before dawn. orig rec with Seth Bernard (10/23/20)
• Since You Asked by Judy Collins - orig rec from her 1967 "Wildflowers" album. In RUS "Love" p.127 (1/5/22)
• Sing People Sing - by Emma's Revolution. Together we create a force beyond imagining.  watch  (4/27/20)
• Smile by Valerie June. We were blown away by Valerie's beautiful presence & energy at Green River Festival! watch (8/30/21)
• So We Resolve by Ruth Pelham. And so we resolve, where as it be Love shall prevail in our communities (celebrating Biden's cancellation of the Muslim travel ban)  watch (2/2/21)
• Solo Le Pido a Dios by Leon Gieco, sung Luciano Pereyra. I only ask God that I never grow indifferent to pain. watch (7/29/20)
• Solstice Carole by Kim Baryluk of the Wyrd Sisters view post (12/22/22)
• Some Have Fathers Gone to Glory. On the other bright shore. listen to rec by Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt - in RA "Gospel" p116 (1/16/22)
• Somebody's Hurting My Brother by Yara Allen of Poor People's Campaign. We won't be silent anymore!  watch  (5/30/20)
• Somerset Wassail - a rowdy song to help you bring in the new year! listen to rec by Nowell Sing We Clear - in RUS "Good Times" p90 (12/31/21)
• Something Inside So Strong - by Labi Siffre. The more you refuse to hear my voice, the louder I will sing.  watch  (5/6/20) 
• Somewhere to Begin by T.R.Ritchie sung by Charlie King. People ask how we can sing in times like these?  watch  (4/27/20)
• Somewhere to Begin by the T.R.Ritchie  Because we live in hope, even when the world calls us fools to do so. listen to rec by Sara Thomsen in RA "Hope & Strength" p.139  (10/9/21)
• ​Song for Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women - a moving song & video about a painful reality. It is hopeful that many are lifting up this great harm & the many women lost. watch (10/15/21)
• A Song of Peace (Finlandia) Hear our song, God of all the nations, a song of peace, for their land & for mine... rec by the choir of St John the Divine cathedral (in RUS "Peace" p.163 - 3/29/21)
• Sow in Tears, Reap in Joy by Debbie Friedman. Friedman's trimphant anthem drawn from Psalm 126. orig rec by Friedman - cover by SoulFarm & Sari Greenberg. (2/20/21)
• Speed of the Sound of Loneliness by John Prine (1946-2020). Live rec by Prine in 2018. Video with Nanci Griffith. In RA "Love" p.155 (8/21/21)
• Stand By Me - We won't be afraid.  watch (royal wedding)  watch (Playing for Change)  (4/23/20)
• Stand Up from Mike Stern & Brooklyn Women's Chorus. Stand together against hatred & fear!  watch  (5/19/20)
• Stand Up / Stand N Rock by Taboo For Deb Haaland, of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, Biden's historic pick for Secretary of Interior. watch (1/17/21)
• Standing Stone by Melanie DeMore. I will stand by you. listen  watch DeMore teach & lead the song (3/25/22)
• Step by Step - Seeger's labor anthem, sung by Annie Patterson & Charlie King. By union what we will can be accomplished still. Singly none!  watch  (4/30/20)
• Still Ain't Satisfied, by Bonnie Lockhart. For RBG.  And all she did for women's rights.  watch (9/25/20)
• Still Looking for Freedom by John Fromer. You won't find it alone.  watch (8/24/20)
• Still on the Bridge by Claudia Schmidt. Like John Lewis we'll turn this hate around.  watch (7/27/20)
• Still Small Voice by Bob Franke. The papers said they killed the dream but they never killed the still small voice.  watch (6/1/20 and 6/4/21)
• Storm Is Passing Over - by Charles Albert Tindley. Take courage my soul and let us journey on...  watch (4/19/20)
• Sussex Mummers Carol as performed at The Christmas Revels. Celebrating Old Yule! watch (12/18/20)
• Sweet Thames Flow Softly by musical giant Ewan MacColl. This is one of many great covers of this tender lovesong. This cover is by Rufus & Martha Wainwright off the "Joy of Living" tribute CD. (p.155 in the "Love" chapter of RA - 4/3/21)
• Swimming to the Other Side, by Pat Humphries. Loving spirits will live forever. cover by Dan Heidt, orig rec by Pat Humphries. (in RA "Faith" p.60 - 6/24/21)
• Talkin' about a Revolutin by Tracy Chapman. Poor people gonna rise up & get their share.  watch (8/20/20)
• Testimony by Ferron. By my hands be I whole. live rec by Ferron. rec by Sweet Honey in the Rock on p250 in "Women" chapter of RA (9/18/21)
• Testimony by Ferron is a powerful spiritual anthem of women's music & the feminist movement. watch 2015 video by Marcelle Davies Lashley In RUS on p250 of "Women" (6/19/22)
• Thanksgiving Eve by Bob Franke. Love's seed overshadows the power of death. watch (11/25/20)
• That Kind of Grace     From Anne Hills & David Roth  When I sing Amazing Grace, your face is what I see. watch  (7/17/20) 
• There Is Power in a Union - by Billy Bragg.  In times like these we need our unions more than ever.  watch  (4/29/20)
• There'll Be a Day by Sloop Clearwater Capt. Bob Killian. From Pete Seeger's Tomorrow's Children CD. The world doesn't know it's within our hands to make this world a heaven or hell. watch (11/24/20)
• These Hands by Dave Gunning. What shall I do with these hands of mine?  watch  (5/18/20)
• They Can't Take That Away from Me by George & Ira Gershwin. The way you changed my life... listen to 1959 rec by Ella & Louis. watch orig from 1937 "Shall We Dance" flick. In RA "Jazz & Swing" p146 (12/29/21)
• Thirsty Boots by Eric Andersen. Tell me of the ones you saw as far as you could see, across the plain from field to town a-marchin' to be free. cover by Doug Geeting. orig Andersen rec. (in RUS "Travelin' p236 - 6/26/21)
• This Joy I Have by Shirley Caesar, sung by the Resistance Revival Chorus. The world didn't give it, the world can't take it away. watch (11/22/20)
• Those Three Are On My Mind sung by Pete Seeger. For James, Andrew & Michael killed by Klan on 6/21/64 during Miss. Freedom Summer. Say their names. watch (6/24/20)
• Through All the World Below (Captain Kidd hymn) - God is seen all around. Search hills & valleys through, there he's found. rec by Kelly Kennedy. live "shape note" sing (in RUS p.251 - 3/26/21)
• Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. Sweet songs of melodies pure & true. listen + "songs around the world" cover from Playing for Change project. (in RA "Hope" p.139 - 6/29/21)
• Tide Is Rising - We will rise!  Written by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman & Yotam Schacter. Recording by Annie Patterson. watch  (4/22/20 - Earth Day)
• Time to Remember the Poor   When in plenty you are sitting by a warm fireside, that's the time... rec by by Nowell Sing We Clear rec by Waterson-Carthy(12/13/20)
• Times They Are a Changin' by Bob Dylan,  Happy 80th birthday to our Nobel Laureate poet. listen to rec by Keb' Mo' on his 2004 album "Peace: Back by Popular Demand".(in RUS "Struggle" p219 - 5/23/210
• Tiree Love Song as sung by Irish-Canadian, Eileen McGann. Will you come away, my love, to be my own, my rare one? listen (3/3/21)
• To Be Young, Gifted & Black by Nina Simone. She first performed it at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The performance is part of the new film Summer of Soul. watch (7/29/21)
• Together by Alisa Amador. All of the people of all of the earth. Each with a reason, a heart & a worth. watch (1/28/22)
• Tomorrow Is a Long Time by Bob Dylan. Only if she were lying by me, and I in my bed once again... orig 1963 live rec (in RUS "Time & Changes" p228 - 6/12/21)
• Trouble in the Fields by Nanci Griffith. Another powerful song rooted in her childhood in rural Texas. watch (in RA "Farm & Prairie" p.74 - 8/17/21)
• Trouble in This World - by Bob Franke. Bob never stops reminding us that "It's gonna be allright..."  watch  (4/10/20)
• Troubles of the World - an African American spiritual as recorded by Mahalia Jackson. Soon I will be done... watch (11/29/20)
• Turn, Turn, Turn (children's verses) written by Toshi Seeger for her family. watch video by Elizabeth Mitchell & Dan Zanes (5/22/21)
• Turning of the World - by Ruth Pelham  With every voice, with every song, we will move this world along.  watch (7/30/20)
• Two Good Arms by Charlie King.  End state killings. rec with Karen Brandow - cover by Holly Near & Ronnie Gilbert (in RUS "Struggle" p.219 - 7/12/21)
• Two Hands Hold the Earth - by Sarah Pirtle. Si se puede. The young will lead! watch  (5/14/20)
• Underneath the Stars by Kate Rusby. With images from the Hubble Deep Space Telescope: watch - live rec (in RA "Outdoors" p.196 - 7/10/21)
• Unicornio escrito por Silvio Rodriquez. Cantada por la fabulosa Mercedes Sosa. watch (11/30/20)
• Up Over My Head African American spiritual adap. by Betty Mae Fikes. I see freedom in the air!  watch (7/6/20)
• Urge for Going by Joni Mitchell. Mitchell rec Winter's arrival is especially painful in this time of COVID. 1st rec by Tom Rush in 1967. Rush rec (11/14/20)
• Vote Him Away (The Liar Tweets Tonight) by Roy Zimmerman.  Join our virtual Sing Out the Vote campaign at riseupandsing.org/vote  watch (9/9/20)
• Walk Proud My Son by Don Grooms (1930-98) about his childhood growing up in the Native community in Cherokee NC. watch in RA "Freedom" p.81 (10/18/21)
• Walls by country singers Kennedy Rose. However will we know what can be found until we let the walls come tumbling down?  watch (8/6/20)
• Wasn't That a Time? by Lee Hays (of The Weavers) & Walter Lowenfels, as performed by Pete Seeger. Isn't this a time?  watch (7/4/20)
• Water Is Wide - Pete Seeger at Sanders Theater in 1980. How can we carry each other over?  watch  (5/3/20 - Pete's 100th birthday)
• Water Is Wide (#2) from a live concert by Pete Seeger. Our first "repeat" - because of what Pete says here about the ocean of misunderstanding between human beings - and how critical it is for us to find a way to bridge it. watch (11/4/20)
• Way Out of No Way - by Sally Rogers. Written for John Lewis' 2016 sit-in for sensible gun laws. "There's a time to end the silence."  watch (7/22/20)
• We Are One - by Pat Humphries, sung by Emma's Revolution in Seoul in 2003. Can we find peace with each other in this country? No justice, no peace.  watch (9/2/20)
• We Belong to the Earth by Magpie  It's not the she belong to us  listen on p51 in Earthcare chapter of RA (4/25/22)
• We Gotta Pray - by Alicia Keys. Are we gonna run or are we gonna fight?  watch  (6/4/20)
• We Shall Be Known - by Karen Longaker of MaMuse, sung by Thrive Choir. In this great turning we shall learn to lead in love!  watch (5/4//20)
• We Shall Not Be Moved  sung by the SNCC Freedom Singers at the 1963 March on Washington. Black Lives Matter.  watch (9/12/20)
• We Shall Overcome from 2009 film "Soundtrack for a Revolution" re songs of freedom movement  watch (6/8/20)
• We Shall Rise by John McCutcheon. And when we stand in judgment before our children's eyes, not a soul will be forgotten... watch (11/2/20)
• We Were There by Bev Grant. For the centenary of the ratification of the 19th amendment on August 20, 1920.  watch (8/18/20)
• We Will Build This House - Sally Rogers' song about love & justice. watch  (4/9/20)
• We Won't Hold Back by Ruth Pelham. Celebrating 5 years of marriage equality today!  watch (6/26/20)
• We're in the Same Boat, Brother by Yip Harburg & Earl Robinson. For the Glasgow Climate Summit: Wake up world! rec by Robinson a cappella rec by Lead Belly (11/3/21)
• What I Am from Will.i.am. Remembering Muppets founder Jim Henson who died 30 years ago. We'll keep getting stronger! Sesame Street rocks! watch  (5/17/20)
• What If, No Matter by Tom Paxton. The best song we know for sensible gun laws. watch (7/5/22)
• What's Going On by Marvin Gaye - celebrating today's 50th anniversary of this ground-breaking album. watch (5/21/21)
• What's That I Hear by Phil Ochs. We hear it that sound of freedom more & more! cover by Annie Patterson. orig rec by Ochs (3/11/21) 
• Where Have All the Flowers Gone by Pete Seeger - orig Seeger rec  Performed by Kronos Quartet as the first song in a Live at Carnegie Hall broadcast. watch (11/13/20)
• Which Side Are You On? - Working folk don't have a chance unless we organize.  watch  5/1/20)
• White Sandy Beach from singer activist Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. IZ would be 61 today. Calm my restless heart.  watch  (5/20/20)
• Who Knows Where the Time Goes for 3 whom we've lost: orig 1967 demo rec by Sandy Denny, live rec by Nina Simone, rec by Eva Cassidy (1/2/20)
• Who Will Sing Me Lullabies by Kate Rusby There's one thing I ask when the stars light the sky... watch in RA "Lullabies" p163 (12/20/21)
• Wild Mountain Thyme as sung by Kate Rusby. Can we dream of summer?  watch (1/21/21)
• Willful Ignorance by Claudia Schmidt. Your freedom was lost so easily. listen to rec with Sally Rogers (4/6/22)
• Willie of Winsbury as sung by Pentangle. An unusual Child Ballad with a "happy ending"! Pentangle live rec - a tender variant of the ballad by Kate Rusby in RUS "Ballads & Old Songs" p15 (9/10/21)
• Windmills by Alan Bell. Ships of the land with their high canvas sails. listen to rec by Makem & Clancy. (in RA "Farm" p.75 - 6/28/21)
• Windows of the Heart by Reggie Harris. "We feel this desperation to turn this world around" listen (1/3/22)
• The Witch of the Westmorland by Archie Fisher. Sometimes we find healing from unexpected places... listen (8/10/21)
• Woke Up This Morning from the SNCC Freedom Singers. As MLK said "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice".  watch (6/10/20)
• Wolves Don't Live by the Rules by Willie Thrasher described as "a tribute to survival, to nomadism & to the free spirit of the Inuit people." watch video by Inuit singer Elisapie (8/5/22)
• (The) Woman in Your Life by Alix Dobkin. Remembering Alix during this Pride Month.  listen on p.252 in the "Women" chapter of RUS (6/16/22)
• (A) Woman's Place by Sara Thomsen. My place is in the home / And my home is the whole wide world listen (2/18/22)
• Women Be Wise by Sippie Wallace (1898-1986) whose career stretched from touring in her teens to recording a Grammy-winning album with Bonnie Raitt in 1983. watch (in RA "Blues" p.13 - 7/7/21)
• Working Class Woman by Barbara Dane - in celebration of International Women's Day  listen (3/9/22)
• World in Their Pocket by Malvina Reynolds The poor suffer the most from climate change & the pandemic.  ("But their pocket's got a hole.") watch (11/20/20)
• The World Turned Upside Down Leon Rosselson's song about the Diggers' vision of a just world of sharing among all people listen to rec with Roy Bailey (7/15/22)
• The Worst You've Ever Done (Death Penalty Song) by Charlie King & Karen Brandow. Inspired by the words of Sr. Helen Prejean - as Trump rushes to excecute as many prisoners as he can before Jan 20th. watch 1/14/21)
• Ye Banks & Braes - by Robert Burns, sung by Madelaine Cave. Reminds us why earth is worth fighting for.  watch  (5/5/20)
• You Ain't Done Nothin' If You Ain't Been Called a Red For Faith Petric's birthday. She was born in 1915 - 106 years ago. hear Faith's rec. In RA "Struggle" p. 252 (9/14/21)
• You Ain't Goin' Nowhere by Bob Dylan. Hey: is this a great pandemic song or what?  watch  (8/31/20)
• You Are Not Alone by Jeff Tweedy. Remembering those who have died. As performed by Mavis Staples.  watch (1/19/21)
• You Are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder. For the people & things that will stay forever in ours hearts. watch (11/27/20)
• You Can't Kill the Spirit by Naomi Morena. This video, featuring Marilyn Keller, was created in 2016 soon after DRT's election "so it could nurture us during times of struggle".  watch (1/13/20)
• You Noble Diggers All as sung by Windborne. "The gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown." listen (3/1/21)
• You'll Never Walk Alone - recorded at home by Marcus Mumford for War Child -"working towards a world where no child's life is torn apart by war".  watch  (4/14/20)
• You've Got to Be Carefully Taught sung by Audra McDonald. For Bubba Wallace who tweeted "Love should come naturally...people are taught to hate. Love wins."  watch (7/7/20)
• Young, Gifted & Black by Nina Simone. She first performed it at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The performance is part of the new film Summer of Soul. watch (7/29/21)
• Your Daughters & Your Sons by Tommy Sands. Sung by Charlie King & Karen Brandow."You sowed the seeds of freedom in..." watch (7/20/20)
• Your Labor Is Not in Vain from The Porter's Gate view post (8/21/22)