The Songbook
Thirty sacred songs from traditions all over the world.
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
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
Contemporary sacred
All Is Love
by Dub Sutra
A minimal circular refrain affirming that all is love.
All is love
Contemporary sacred
Andelele
by Aquario
A chant to spirits and ancestors carried on the wind.
Spirits around we’re grateful for your presence
Rainbow
Angels Sing
by Uria Tsur
A gentle rainbow song, angels singing in my soul.
Angels singing, angels singing
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)
Contemporary sacred
Carry Me River
by Derk de Geus
Let the flow of the river carry you home.
Carry me river
Hindu and kirtan
Ganesha Mantra
by Traditional, in Sanskrit
A call-and-response invocation of Ganesha, Lakshmi, and Sarasvati.
Om Ganesha
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
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
Hallelujah (I'm on my way)
by Sam Garrett, Molly Mendoza
Slightly adapted version
Hallelujah, hallelujah
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
Hawaiian
Ho’oponopono
by Traditional Hawaiian, Derk de Geus
A musical setting of the four healing phrases associated with Ho’oponopono.
I'm sorry
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
Contemporary sacred
I'm On My Way
by Sam Garrett & Mollie Mendoza
An uplifting communal refrain of hallelujahs and forward movement.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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
Contemporary sacred
Inside You
by Derk de Geus
A gentle song about the ever-present peace and wisdom within us all.
Inside you
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
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
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
Lakota and medicine
Mitakuye Oyasin
by Traditional, in Lakota
A Lakota-rooted chant honoring kinship with all relations and Pachamama.
Mitakuye Oyasin
Hindu and kirtan
Narayana Om
by Traditional, in Sanskrit
A simple devotional chant invoking Narayana.
Narayana narayana om
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
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
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
Take Me Away
by Unknown
A sweet song full of devotion to the mother
Take me away, won't you carry me
Lakota and medicine
Wakan Tanka
by Nick Barbachano, in Lakota
A Lakota-inspired medicine song of gratitude, prayer, and healing plants.
Wakan Tanka
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
When I Look At You
by Arjen Dekker
Oh, als ik naar je kijk
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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