The Songbook

Songs

• African chant

  Afra Ama Kilia Kitango

  by Traditional

  A short African call-and-response chant built on a repeating minor progression.

  Afra Ama Kilia Kitango

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• Contemporary sacred

  All I Have To Do

  by Helen Knight

  An expansive heart-opening song rooted in horizon, land, and earth.

  All I have to do

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• Contemporary sacred

  All Is Love

  by Dub Sutra

  A minimal circular refrain affirming that all is love.

  All is love

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• Contemporary sacred

  Andelele

  by Aquario

  A chant to spirits and ancestors carried on the wind.

  Spirits around we’re grateful for your presence

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• Rainbow

  Angels Sing

  by Uria Tsur

  A gentle rainbow song, angels singing in my soul.

  Angels singing, angels singing

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• Hindu and kirtan

  Baba Hanuman

  by Krishna Das, in Hindi

  Krishna Das's beloved Hanuman kirtan (Namo namo, Anjani Nandanaya), with the full chart's Dm turn in the chorus.

  Namo... Namo... (repeat)

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• Contemporary sacred

  Carry Me River

  by Derk de Geus

  Let the flow of the river carry you home.

  Carry me river

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• Hindu and kirtan

  Ganesha Mantra

  by Traditional, in Sanskrit

  A call-and-response invocation of Ganesha, Lakshmi, and Sarasvati.

  Om Ganesha

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• Contemporary sacred

  Garden of My Life

  by Derk de Geus

  A manifestation mantra. What do you plant in the garden of your life?

  I'm sowing the seeds of Love

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• Hindu and kirtan

  Gayatri Mantra

  by Traditional, Derk de Geus, in Sanskrit

  The ancient Gayatri mantra paired with an English invocation.

  Om Bhur Bhuvah Svaha Tat Savitur

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• Hallelujah (I'm on my way)

  by Sam Garrett, Molly Mendoza

  Slightly adapted version

  Hallelujah, hallelujah

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• Contemporary sacred

  Het is een hele mooie dag

  by Jeroen / Pitavasa Das, in Dutch

  Een opgewekt meezinglied over er mogen zijn en de schoonheid van de dag.

  Ik mag er zijn

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• Hawaiian

  Ho’oponopono

  by Traditional Hawaiian, Derk de Geus

  A musical setting of the four healing phrases associated with Ho’oponopono.

  I'm sorry

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• Contemporary sacred

  I Know The Way

  by Derk de Geus

  A concise call-and-response affirmation that love is the way.

  Oh I know, in my heart and my soul

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• Contemporary sacred

  I'm On My Way

  by Sam Garrett & Mollie Mendoza

  An uplifting communal refrain of hallelujahs and forward movement.

  Hallelujah, Hallelujah

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• Yorùbá

  Ide Were Were

  by Traditional

  A traditional Yorùbá chant to Oshún, orisha of love and freshwater, sung while preparing and adorning the self.

  Ide were were nita Oshún

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• Contemporary sacred

  Inside You

  by Derk de Geus

  A gentle song about the ever-present peace and wisdom within us all.

  Inside you

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• Contemporary sacred

  Into the Light (Elke dag een beetje meer)

  by Derk de Geus

  A gentle bilingual circle song: every day a little more, dissolving into the heart of love and into radiant light.

  Every day a little more

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• Contemporary sacred

  Lokah Samastah

  by Traditional, Marlies van Kampen, Derk de Geus, in Sanskrit

  A Sanskrit peace mantra answered by a Dutch prayer for freedom and happiness.

  Lokah samastah

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• Hindu and kirtan

  Lokah Samastah Sukino Bavantu

  by Krishna Das, in Sanskrit

  A prayer that all beings everywhere may be happy and free.

  Lokah Samas-tha Sukhi-no Bhavan-tu

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• Lakota and medicine

  Mitakuye Oyasin

  by Traditional, in Lakota

  A Lakota-rooted chant honoring kinship with all relations and Pachamama.

  Mitakuye Oyasin

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• Hindu and kirtan

  Narayana Om

  by Traditional, in Sanskrit

  A simple devotional chant invoking Narayana.

  Narayana narayana om

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• Hindu and kirtan

  Om Nama Shiva Ya (One Day From The Darkness)

  by Derk de Geus

  An English sacred narrative framed by a repeated Shiva mantra.

  One day, from the darkness

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• Buddhist

  Om Tare Tuttare

  by Krishna Das, in Sanskrit

  Krishna Das's two-part setting of the Green Tara mantra.

  Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha

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• Contemporary sacred

  Open the Door

  by Derk de Geus

  A spacious invitation to open the heart, soul, and home to love.

  Open the door to my heart

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• Take Me Away

  by Unknown

  A sweet song full of devotion to the mother

  Take me away, won't you carry me

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• Lakota and medicine

  Wakan Tanka

  by Nick Barbachano, in Lakota

  A Lakota-inspired medicine song of gratitude, prayer, and healing plants.

  Wakan Tanka

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• Contemporary sacred

  Walk With The Spirit

  by Derk de Geus

  I'm not alone, in this world - I walk with the spirit by my side

  I'm not alone, in this world

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• When I Look At You

  by Arjen Dekker

  Oh, als ik naar je kijk

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• Contemporary sacred

  Why We Dance

  by Inge Vanderplaetsen & Derk de Geus

  Summer vibes, an anthem for ecstatic dance and joyful movement.

  O When life forgot to bring you flowers

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