Chorus Lyrics December 16, 2020

Sacred Dark / Resilience / Return of Light

Dear Choristas,
Please bring a candle to chorus,
and something to light it with. 
Do not light it at the beginning. 
We will all light them later on.
And please have these words below with you! 
       Thank you!  Love, K
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​Sisters! 
Sisters!
We have come here tonight
to do something remarkable
to do something revolutionary
to do something beautiful
We have come to take back the night!

Take back the night
Take back the long lazy dream time night
Take back the dark
Take back the beautiful dark waiting soil
Take back the circle
Take back the cycle of death, decay and rebirth
Take back plants rotting and sliding
and changing into rich black earth

Take back the beautiful beautiful beautiful color black
Take back the black satin midnight sky
holding a round silken shining moon
 
Take back the moon and all her names
Luna, Selene, Grandmother
Mahina, Chang’e, Neesa
Oya, Anahita, iNyanga
Chandra, Mawu,  La Lune,
Take back her wisdom, her courage, her power
 
Take back resting
Take back our bodies sleeping under warm feathers 
dreaming, dreaming, dreaming

Take back stillness, and waiting
 Take back mystery and healing and true, deep change
 
Take back the ancient knowledge that all things that grow
seeds, babies and dreams
come out of the dark
 
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night
Take back the night

 (Now turn off all your lights!)
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Solstice Song
by Becky Reardon
Deep down in the belly of the night
Dream deep winter dreams
And lie safe in your grandmother's arms
Still as a seed
Still as a seed
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Channukah / Solstice
by Linda Hirschorn
play in Eminor capoe up 1 bar to F

Em                         Em
​Turning turning spirits yearning
Em            D           Em
Reaching for the night
Em                      
Colors going shadows growing
Em      D              Em
Darkening the light
   C                      G
Ancient story told
  C                               G
Renewed with the cold
Em                 D
Mystery of light
  C                             B7
Burned into the night    
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Sae Will We Yet 
by Walter Watson 1780-1854 (last verse modified by KH)
Play in G capoed up 5 bars to C

        G                                                    D                        C               
Sit down  here  my cronies     and give us     your crack
                G                                                   C   D         G
Let the wind     take the care     of this life on its back
                G                                                  C (Am)             D
For our hearts   to    despondency we never will submit
                      G                     D                      C                    D
Fore we’ve aye been provided for, and sae will we yet
 
Chorus
          G                                    D                C
And sae will we yet     and sae will we yet
                   G                      D                       C                   D
For we’ve aye been provided for, and sae will we yet
 
So fill   us    a tankard      of nappy      brown ale
It’ll com-fort our hearts       and enliven the tale;
And we’ll aye    be   the merrier         the longer that we sit
For we’ve drank together many’s the time and sae will we yet
Chorus
 
Here’s a health   to    the farmers,     and prosper their plows
Rewar-ding their ardent toils        all the year through
For the springtime   and the harvest       we ever will get
For we’ve lippen’d aye   to providence, and sae will we yet
Chorus
 
So lift up your voices, let the harmonies go round
For the sun it will rise, though the moon has gone down
We’ll all go dancing round and round, and never we’ll forget
When we fell we aye   got up again, and sae will we yet
Chorus
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 Millenium Grace
words by Stephen Levine

There is a grace approaching
that we shun as much as death,
this grace is the completion of our birth.
 It does not come in time,
     but in timelessness
     when the mind sinks into the heart
     and we remember.

It is an insistent grace that draws us to the edge
It is an insistent grace that draws us to the edge
Insistent grace, insistent grace
We know we must pass beyond knowing
We know we must pass beyond knowing
        And we fear the shedding.

But we are pulled upward none-the-less
through forgotten ghosts
and unexpected angels,  luminous.  
 Luminous,     luminous
And there is nothing left to say
nothing left to say
There is nothing left to say but    We are That
      And That is what we sing about
That is what we sing about
That is all we ever sing
 That’s all we ever sing