Reclaiming is Starhawk's Goddess community.
You will find here many traditional Wiccan chants and original chants with lyrics and guitar chords.
To learn more about the Reclaiming Community, go to www.reclaiming.org
To buy CDs from Reclaiming, go to http://www.reclaimingquarterly.org/music/music1.html Recommended: Chants, Second Chants.
For Reclaiming books, go to http://www.reclaiming.org/resources/booksmusic.html Recommended: The Spiral Dance, Circle Round, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying.
Wiccan and Goddess Songs
LYRICS AND CHORDS
Transcribed by Cernowain Greenman
1. The Beginning of the Earth
2. Touching Her Deep
3. Air I Am
4. Rise with the Fire
5. Snake Woman
6. Goddess Medley (Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate...)
7. We Are the Flow
8. Silver Shining Wheel
9. Where There's Fear There's Power
10. Hecate, Cerridwen
11. Return to the Mother
12. Born of Water
13. Air Moves Us
14. Water and Stone (Solid as a Rock)
15. We Are Alive
16. We All Come from the Goddess/Hoof and Horn
17. Sun King (This is the wake of Lugh)
18. Kore Chant (She Changes Everything)
1. The Beginning of the Earth
(Starhawk & Delaney Johnson)
capo III
Am G
Am
The ocean is the beginning of the earth
Am
G
Am
The ocean is the beginning of the earth
Am G
Am
All life comes from the sea
Am G Am
All life comes from the sea
2. Touching Her Deep
(Feather Singing)
Am C
G
Touching Her deep, deep in our center
Am G
Touching Her deep, deep in our center
3. Air I Am
(Andras Corbin)
Am G Am
Am G Am
Air I am, Fire I am
Am C
G
Am G Am
Water, Earth and Spirit I am
4. Rise with the Fire
(Starhawk)
Am
We can rise with the fire of freedom
G Am
Truth us the fire that burns our chains
Am
And we can stop the fire of destruction
G Am
Healing is the fire running through our veins
5. Snake Woman
(Starhawk)
Dm
C
Dm
Snake Woman shedding Her skin
Dm
C Dm
Shedding, shedding, shedding her skin
Dm
C Dm
Shedding, shedding, shedding her skin
Dm
C Dm
Snake Woman shedding Her skin
Dm
C Dm
Snake Woman shedding Her skin
Bird Woman taking flight...
Star Woman shining bright...
Moon Woman riding the night...
Blossom Woman opening wide...
*Cern adds:
[Eagle Man circling high...
Bear Man growling loud...
Mountain Man touching the sky...]
6. Goddess Medley
(Deena Metzger, Will Sherardson, Greenham Common)
Dm
C Dm
Dm C Dm
Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna.
Dm
C Dm
We are an old people, We are a new people
Dm
C
Dm
We are the same people, Deeper than before
I am a strong woman, I am a story woman
I am a healer, My soul will never die
7. We Are the Flow
(Shekhinah Mountainwater)
Em
We are the flow, we are the ebb,
D (Em)
We are the weavers, we are the web
8. Silver Shining Wheel
(Peter Soderberg)
C
Dm
Maiden come to us.
Silver Shining Wheel of radiance, radiance
Mother come to us
Ancient Holy Mother, Hecate, Cerridwen
Old One, Come to us
Holy Shining Sunlight, radiant, radiant
Brother come to us
Dm Am Dm
Where there's fear there is power
C
Am Dm C
Am Dm
Passion is the healer, desi-ire cracks open the gate
C Dm
If you're ready it'll take you through
But nothing lasts forever
Time is the renewer
The wheel turns again and again
Watch out, it'll take you through
But nothing dies forever
Nature is the renewer
The wheel turns again and again
If you're ready it'll take you through
10. Hecate, Cerridwen
(Patricia Witt)
Am Em Am
Dm Em
Hecate, Cerridwen, Dark Mother take us in
Am Em Am
G Am
Hecate, Cerridwen, Let us be reborn
11. Return to the Mother
(Judy Grahn & Wind Hags)
spoken: All over the world the waters are breaking
Everywhere, everywhere
The waters are breaking
...
Em
And so return, return, return
D Em
return to the Mother
(descant):
All over the world, the waters
are breaking
The waters are breaking
all over the world
12. Born of Water
(Women's Workshop, Madison, WI)
Em
D Em
Born of water, cleansing, powerful
Em
D Em
Healing, changing, we are
13. Air Moves Us
(Cathleen Shell, Cybele, Moonsea, Prune)
Dm
C Am
Air moves us Fire transforms us
Dm
C Dm
Water shapes us Earth heals us
C
Dm
And the balance of the wheel goes round and round
C
Dm
And the balance of the wheel goes round
14. Water and Stone
(Raven Moonshadow)
F#m
E
C#m
Ancient as a stone and strong as the sea
F#m
E
Solid as a rock, set deep within the Mother
F#m
E F#m
And water that flows round me
15. We Are Alive
(Rose May Dance, Starhawk)
Dm
C Dm
We are alive, as the earth is alive
Dm
C
Dm
We have the power, to fight for our freedom
Dm
If we have courage, We can be healers
C F C
Dm
Like the sun, we shall rise
16. We All Come from the Goddess/
Hoof and Horn
(Z. Budapest/Ian Corrigan)
Dm
C Dm
We all come from the Goddess
C Dm
And to Her we shall return
Dm
C Dm C
Dm
Like a drop of rain, flowing to the ocean
Dm C Dm
Dm C Dm
Hoof and horn, Hoof and horn
Dm C
Dm
All that dies shall be reborn
Dm C
Dm Dm C
Dm
Corn and grain, corn and grain
Dm
C Dm
All that falls shall rise again
17. Sun King
(Raven Moonshadow)
B7 Em B7 Em
O, tell me why, O tell me why
G
D
Tell me why must the clouds come
B7 Em
to darken the sky?
(repeat)
Em
D Em
This is the wake of Lugh the Sun King
Em B7 Em
He lost his life on the Solstice Day
Em
D Em
This is the wake of Lugh the Sun King
B7 Em
He steps into the dark and guides the way!
18. Kore Chant
(Lauren Liebling & Starhawk)
Am
She changes everything she touches, and
G
Am
everything she touches, changes (repeat)
Her name cannot be spoken
Her face was not forgotten
Her power is to open
Her promise can never be broken
All seeds She deeply buries
She weaves the thread of seasons
Her secret, darkness carries
She loves beyond all reason
All sleeping seeds She wakens,
The rainbow is Her token
Now Winter's power is taken
In love all chains are broken
Everything lost is found again
in a new form, in a new way
Everything hurt is healed again
in a new time in a new day
Bright as a flower and strong as a tree
With our love and with our rage
Breaking our chains so we can be free
With our love and with our rage
We are changers
Everything we touch can change
Change is, touch is; touch is, change is
Change us, touch us; touch us, change us
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