• Home
  • Song Blog
  • Virtual Chorus
  • Winter Choruses 2023
  • Payment Options
  • Remembering Meg
  • Seen & Unseen CD
    • Lyrics / Credits
    • Photos
  • Contact Kathleen
  • The Work of Byron Katie
  • Enneagram Sessions
  • Nelson Mandela Tribute
  • NCAEYC CD Lyrics etc.
  • Maravillosa - songs in Spanish for young children
  • Rally Chant Lyrics
  • Count My Heart
  • Chorus Lyrics
  Kathleen Hannan

Songs for Our Journey 27

5/2/2018

1 Comment

 
Picture
A friend wrote to me this week and asked for this song, for a Queen of Heaven celebration she was doing for Beltane.  So I'm posting it here with wishes to everyone for a beautiful Beltane season of green and passion and reclaimed feminine power.  The Maria in this song is an embodied Goddess.  She is passionate, sensual, an activist, a lover.  She is Tara, Kali, Oshun, Venus, Mary. She is you and me.  She is all women  around the world, speaking out, standing up, and creating with the natural compassion and understanding that comes from being mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, aunts. She is also men of course, and children,  and every rock, tree, river and earthworm.. May we all trust, live and create from the limitless freedom within each of our hearts.  Blessed Be. 
Maria
© K Hannan 1990
​When I was a child, my goddess wore blue
She was the mother of a king
"Halleluia, heavenly queen"  I could hear the angels sing
And the grandmothers wore black, curled on bended knees
They prayed to my childhood goddess, called her Maria
Now Maria wears red, now Maria wears green
Now Maria stands naked, she's proud to be seen
No longer a queen.....no longer a queen
 
When I was a child, my goddess stood alone in corners everywhere
Patiently listening to the grandmothers' troubles,
her own story never shared
Maria stood in the gardens from January till December
Waiting in silent white plaster for us to remember her
 
Now Maria is angry, now Maria has flown
Now Maria takes lovers, she's out on her own
She's come down from her throne....come down from her throne
And I'm bigger than before, still I'm smaller than I was
And I'm standing on my own feet, till I see what that does
Till I see what that does
Till I see what that does....
 
When I was a child, my goddess's body was covered in robes of stone
Floating in clouds of heavenly grace, she had no flesh or bone
Still she gave her love eternally, with never a thought of herself
Frozen in marble compassion, up on a shelf
 
Now Maria runs sweating, now Maria screams her pain
Now Maria has the sense to stay out in the rain
She's laughing in the rain.....laughing in the rain
And I'm smaller than I was
Still I'm bigger than before
And I'm standing on a threshold, opening a door
I'm opening a door
We're opening a door  


1 Comment
    Search below for song titles, 
    lyric words & themes

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    January 2022
    May 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    December 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    August 2017
    June 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    September 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All





" Kathleen makes music that makes community."  
The Independent Weekly, Durham, NC  

Contact Kathleen