Lyrics from the album Womansong by the Gaia Choir, goddess chants and healing songs for women’s circles, celebrations and rituals. Womansong is available for download in the yOni shop
We are the rhythm of the earth
We are the flow of the sea
We are spirit on fire
We are the air we breathe
Dance with me (we are the rhythm)
Feel with me (we are the flow)
Move with me (we are the spirit)
Fly with me (we are the wind)
Dancing with the rhythm
Flowing with the feel
Moving with the spirit
Flying with the wind
Hanley/Oliver/Garlick
Chorus: Who are the witches, where did they come from
Maybe your great, great grandmother was one
Witches were wise, wise women they say
And there’s a little witch in every woman today
There’s a little witch in every woman today
Verse: Witches knew all about flowers and trees
How to use all the bark and the roots and the leaves
When people grew weary from hard working days
Witches made them feel better in so many ways
Chorus
Women had babies and witches were there
To help and to feed them and give them some care
And witches knew stories of how life began
Don’t you wish you could be one? Well maybe you can
Chorus
Some people thought that the witches were bad
Some people were scared of the power they had
The power to heal and to give and to cure
It’s not something to fear it’s a treasure to share
Chorus
Chorus: We all come from the Goddess
And to her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Falling to the ocean
Hoof and horn, hoof and horn
All that dies shall be reborn
Chorus
Fire and rain, fire and rain
All that dies shall live again
Chorus
Air and earth, air and earth
All that dies shall have new birth
Chorus
Corn and grain, corn and grain
All that falls will rise again
Chorus
Did you hear the pipes of Pan
Tripping thru the woodland
Did you hear the pipes of Pan
Echo on the hillside
Chorus: Run Pan run, mad man come
Run Pan run……..run
Did you see the fairies run
Crying thru the woodland
Did you see the machines come
Smashing down their homeland
Chorus
Nature God they took your name (run Pan run)
Changed it into Satan (run Pan run)
That’s the way they put the blame (run Pan run)
For all the mess we’re making (3 x)
Chorus (2 x)
Hanley/Oliver
There was a time before we were born
We were the calm in the eye of the storm
We had a memory oh so deep
About the truth and the beauty so sweet
Man and a woman, passion ran wild
They gave birth to a freedom child
We are the children of love and light
We’ll guide the planet thru it’s perilous night
Lift up our hearts and raise our voices
Let the people know all of the choices
Lift up our hearts and raise our voices
Let the people know all of the choices
There is a woman who weaves in the sky
See how she spins, see her fingers fly
Chorus: She changes everything she touches
And everything she touches changes
She changes everything she touches
And everything she touches changes
She’s been beside us from beginning to end
She is our mother, our lover, our friend
She is the needle and we are the thread
She is the weaver and we are the web
Chorus (2 x)
Change me, touch me
Change me, touch me,
changing woman
Adelle Getty
In the cool of the evening they used to gather
‘Neath the stars in the meadow circled near an old oak tree
At the times appointed by the seasons of the earth
And the times appointed by the phases of the moon
In the centre of them stood a woman
Equal with the others and respected for her worth
One of the many we call the witches,
The healers and the teachers of the wisdom of the earth
The people grew through the knowledge she gave them
Herbs to heal their bodies, spells to make their spirits whole
Hear them chanting healing incantations
Calling on the wise ones
Celebrating in dance and song
Chorus: Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate,
Demeter, Kali, Inana
There were those who came to power and domination
And they bonded in the worship of a dead man on a cross
They took control of the common people
By demanding allegiance to the church of Rome
And the Pope declared the inquisition
It was a war against the women whose power they feared
In this holocaust against the nature people
Nine million European women died
And the tale is told of those who by the hundreds
While holding together chose their death in the sea
While chanting the names of the Mother Goddess
A refusal of betrayal,
Women were dying to be free
Chorus
Now the earth is a witch and we still burn her
Stripping her down with mining and the poisons of our wars
Still to us the earth is a healer, our teacher, our mother
She’s the weaver of the web of life who keeps us all alive
She gives us the vision to see through the chaos
She gives us the courage
It is our will to survive
Chorus
Charlie Murphy
I am bold woman
I am such a brave, bold woman
walking right into the dragon’s mouth alone
I am a brave woman
I am such a brave bold woman
Seeking love and beauty
I go on my own
I go on my own
Seeking love and beauty
On my quest I go
No matter what may happen
I know I will grow
Yes I will grow
Kath & Ini
The way of the woman is gentle and strong
She knows life is precious and killing is wrong
For she has the power, the power to heal
That’s the way of woman
Chorus:
Follow the way of the woman, she has the power of birth
Follow the way of the woman and find out what life’s really worth
If we follow the way of the woman and look to our planet first
Follow the way of the woman and we will have heaven on earth
She knows to take care of the land and the sea
She nurtures her friends and her family
For she has the power, the power to feel
That’s the way of the woman
Chorus
The way of the woman is within every soul
The male and the female, two halves of the whole
Together they balance the medicine wheel
That’s the way of woman
Chorus
Heaven on earth, heaven on earth (2 x)
Hanley/Oliver
Mother you’re darkness and Mother you’re light
You’re Shiva, Shakti in and beyond all sight
Oh Mother please open our hearts tonight
Mother please lead us from darkness to light
Chorus: Mother you’re beyond the beyond
Mother you’re where we all come from
Mother you’re beyond the beyond
Mother you’re where we all come from
You’re Radha, you’re Kali, you’re Mary too
Oh Aphrodite, we all are you too
Oh Mother, oh Mother, I’m singing to you
Oh Mother Gaia, oh how I love you
Chorus
Beyond the beyond is not far from this place
Beyond and right here become one with some grace
And everywhere I look I see your face
Mother I thank you for all of this race
Fantusi/Hanley/Oliver
Sweet lady of the cosmos, faithful friend
You pick me up when I’m feeling down
You give me back my confidence, build me up
How I love havin’ you around
Chorus: That’s what friends are for
Open up your heart and let it all out
That’s what friends are for
Don’t be alone just come on home
When you come to me in misery, you think it’s the end
You’ll always have my shoulder to cry on
I’ll try and give you what you need, help you smile
Give you strength so you can carry on
Chorus
Then we talk about the past, old memories
Of growing up, old lovers and friends
And of where we are now compared to then
And what we hope the future has in store
Chorus
Hanley/Oliver
Chorus: Flyin’ high in stormy weather
Mother earth your time has come
Time the people got together
Everyone is everyone
Time the sisters got together
Like the rivers to the sea
Time the brothers got together
Brother you and sister me
Chorus
See the forest and the ocean
Hear the birds and fishes sing
Fly above the stormy mountain
Like an eagle on the wing
And it goes high, high
Like an eagle on the wing
All over the sky
There are planets and stars
Hear the universe cry
Change your ways you’ve gone too far
Chorus
Hanley/Oliver
Chorus: We who believe in freedom cannot rest
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes
Until the killing of the trees is over
And the rape of mother earth
Until love, life and laughter
Fill this planet that gave us birth
Chorus
Changing the hearts of the men in power
Stop bloodshed and wars
Freedom from hunger and pain
For the children forevermore
Chorus
To me young people come first
They have the courage to speak the truth
And if we give them love and freedom
They’ll help us to find the way through
Chorus
We are women who speak in a voice
And we must be heard
Singing with our sisters and brothers
Healing with our words
Chorus
Coming together in harmony
Our voices singing as one
Uniting our hearts, our souls and our minds
Our will, will be done
Reagan/Hanley/Oliver
There will be peace on earth (2 x)
When there is peace in my heart
There will be joy on earth (2 x)
When there is joy in my heart
There will be love on earth (2 x)
When there is love in my heart
Hanley/Oliver
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