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  Kathleen Hannan

Songs for Our Journey 38

10/30/2019

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These two songs were created a decade apart, but they became very good friends and are always sung together now. Sometime after hearing Joseph Campbell say that we should create new myths,
I noticed that Orion looks to me like a woman belly dancing,
​and that Canis Major with it's bright star Sirius, is a little girl dancing with her mother, and the Orion song was born.  Perhaps Sirius is the ringing of finger cymbals that the little girl is playing!   

And Out Of The Dark, written ten years earlier, comes out of my love of the night, and of the creativity, music and joy that over, over and over comes out of the silence of the dark. 


Orion
© K Hannan 1997
I will trade these chains for wings
across the hills I'll fly
I will trade these chains for wings
across these hills I'll fly
Orion reaches out her arms to me
Orion reaches out to dance with me
We are the lovers of the dark
We are the keepers of the night
We are the lovers of the dark
Keeping time in the winter sky
Keeping time in the winter sky
Keeping time in the winter sky
Keeping time
Orion
and I
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Out Of The Dark
© K Hannan 1987
Out of the dark, the dancers come
Each one alone, we dance as One
Through all the changes, still we come
Dance into the morning! 

Bird on the wing was born to fly
She will not stay, though we may cry
She sings a song up in the sky
Dance into the morning!  

Sorrowful tears I cry today
Far from my home and I've lost my way
Somehow a voice inside will say
Dance into the morning! 

In every land, by a different name,
There is a dance, One Dance the same
Leave all the reasons for fear and blame
You can dance into the morning! 

Out of the dark the dancers come
Each one alone, we dance as One
Through all the change, change, change, change
Dance into the morning
Dance into the morning
​Dance into the mor...........................ning!  
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Songs for Our Journey 37

10/24/2019

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What The Baby Knows
© K Hannan 2000
Did you rock all night?
Did you hold her so close?
Did your heart fall open like a flower?
Did her breath rise sweet in between your breath?
Did you almost remember what the baby knows?

What the baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows just where the love comes from 

Did she draw you in to her eyes so deep?
Did she call you back to the beginning?
With no words to say, did she teach you to pray?
Did she light a candle in your temple?

What the baby knows, the baby knows
The baby knows just where the love comes from
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When my niece Rose was born I went to visit in Chicago, and the What The Baby Knows song was born out of that sweet time of being with the miracle of a tiny new life.  A few short years later Rose and I and her sister Celia recorded some songs in their basement. The photo above is from that session.  I have posted three versions below of a song that we wrote that week. The first one is sung by Celia, who I believe was 2 at the time.  The second one is the whole family, and the third one is Rose's improv on the tune!
​This year, Rose started college!  
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Here are Rose and Celia a few years later with my other brother's daughter Ruby. 
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