[print from this page, or copy and paste this text into your word-processing program] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECLAIMING MUSIC CDs available online! Classic recordings of almost half the chants in the Chantbook, plus the musical liturgy to the Spiral Dance ritual Visit www.reclaimingquarterly.org/music/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WITCHCAMP CHANTS BOOK - NEW ADDITIONS Have a new chant you want to see added? Or a correction or credit for one of these chants? We're updating all the time! Please contact RQ, quarterly@reclaiming.org, PO Box 14404, SF CA 94114, (415) 255-7623. ----------------------------------- WELCOME BRIGDHE Welcome Brighde O Brighde is come Brighde is welcome -- The Goddess's name is pronounced "Breed" for this chant ********************* OPENING UP IN SWEET SURRENDER We are opening up in sweet surrender to the luminous love-light of the One (Sun) (2x) We are opening, we are opening (2x) ********************* EARTH MY BODY/TIERRA MI CUERPO Earth my body, water my blood, Air my breath and Fire my spirit Tierra mi cuerpo, Agua mi sangre Aire mi aliento y fuego mi espiritu ********************* HUMBLE YOURSELF IN THE ARMS OF THE WILD Humble yourself in the arms of the wild, you gotta lay down low and Humble yourself in the arms of the wild, you gotta ask what she knows and We shall lift each other up, higher and higher (2x) ********************* IF MY SOUL SAYS SO Chorus: If my soul says so, I do as my soul says (3x) Verse: I am breathing, I am willing, I am open I am stepping out into the unknown I am walking, though uncertain, I am willing To listen to the yearning in my soul --by Suzanne Sterling and Jeffree Alphonsus Mooney ********************* WE ARE THE RISING SUN We are the rising sun We are the change We are the ones we've been waiting for And we are dawning... -- by Raven ********************* COME THE NIGHT, ON Come, come the night, on It is the time of growing It is the time of changing Come, come the night,on -- by Maxina Ventura, Winter Solstice, 2002 ********************* WELCOME/FAREWELL TO THE ELEMENTS Welcome the air, and the fire and the water Welcome the earth, and the spirit that's within REVERSE DIRECTIONS TO DEVOKE: Farewell to spirit, to earth, and to water Farewell to fire, and the air that's all around -- Author unknown. Contact RQ, quarterly@reclaiming.org, if you know who wrote this chant. ********************* HOLD ON Hold on, hold on Through the darkness, until the dawn Hold on, hold on Hold the vision, until it's born -- By Brook Schoenfield and Starhawk ********************* THE HOUSE OF LOVE Take off your head (mask) Put it on the ground (Smash it on the ground, Bury it in the ground) That's how you enter The house of love I wanna stay in my body I 'm gonna be here a long time -- by Contraband ********************* TO THE CROSSROADS To the crossroads I must go To find a world unseen Fear and wonder will I know And be a bridge between Come away my human child To find the world unseen Know the hearth and know the wild And be a bridge between Come away oh human child Come take me by the hand To the water and the wild Into another land You will shed no human tear And hear no human cry You shall in beauty dwell And you will never die -- from W. B. Yeats ********************* FLY, FLY, FLY Fly, fly, fly The leaves are leaving the branch Cold are the winds, Winter is coming -- sing as a round, starting second voice as first voice sings "branch" ********************* BLOOD OF MY FAMILY In my veins runs the blood of my family The blood of my family, the blood of my family In my veins runs the blood of my family The blood of my family in me 2. Under my skin lie the bones of my family 3. On my head is the hair of my family 4. I'm singing now with the voice of my family -- by George Franklin - written at Witchlets in the Woods 2004 for Older Kids' Path ADDITIONAL VERSES BY SEED AND GEORGE: 5. In my mouth is the spit of my family 6. Up my nose is the snot of my family 7. Behind my back is the butt of my family ********************* MAGICAL ACTIVISM CHANT let's feed the seeds of justice beneath the cold concrete. the powers of love are rising and breaking through the streets -- by Starhawk and Loreleycampers ********************* DUTCH GROUNDING CHANT diep, diep, diep, diep, diep in de aarde onder de grond daar ligt mijn krachtbron met wortels vanaf mijn kont diep, diep, diep [IN ENGLISH:] deep, deep, deep, deep down in the earth beneath the grass lies my source of power with roots growing from my ass deep, deep, deep -- by Yoeke, Lorely Camp ********************* WHEN THERE IS A SHADOW when there is a shadow there must be light the sun at daytime and the stars at night and they all live together in me uh-huh-huh -- by Brook and Yoeke, Lorely Camp ********************* FROM THE EARTH AND BACK AGAIN From the Earth and back again Hold to life and live again Sit with death and be again From the Earth and back again From the Earth and back again -- by Maxina Ventura ********************* LIGHT IS RETURNING Light is returning even though this is the darkest hour no one can hold back the dawn Let's keep it burning let's keep the light of hope alive make safe our journey through the storm One planet is turning tracing a path around the sun earth mother is calling Her children home -- By Charlie Murphy, from the 1970s album, "Canticles of Light" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a new chant you want to see added? 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