Songs & Lyrics for the Community Sing:
Hold On (Heidi Wilson)
Hold on, Hold on
My dear one
Here comes the dawn
One Foot/Lead With Love
Chorus (unison)
You gotta put one foot in front of the other
and lead with love, Put
one foot in front of the other
and lead with love (repeat all 4 lines)
Verse 1 (Call and Response)
Don’t give up hope
You’re not alone
Don’t you give up
Keep movin’ on!
Chorus (unison) x 2
Verse 2(Call and Response)
Lift up your eyes
Don’t you despair
Look up ahead
The path is there.
Chorus (unison) x 2
Verse 3 (Call and Response)
I know you’re scared
And I’m scared too
But here I am,
Right next to you.
Chorus (unison)
Repeat using We gotta put
Repeat last line- And lead with love, and lead with love, and lead with love.
We Shall Be Known
We shall be known by the company we keep
By the ones who circle round to tend these fires
We shall be known by the ones who sow and reap
The seeds of change, alive from deep within the earth
It is time now, it is time now that we thrive
It is time we lead ourselves into the well
It is time now, and what a time to be alive
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love
Bread & Roses
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing, bread and roses, bread and roses.
As we come marching, marching, we battle too, for men,
For they are in the struggle and together we shall win.
Our days shall not be sweated from birth until life closes,
Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread, but give us roses.
As we come marching, marching, un-numbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread,
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we. fight for, but we fight for roses, too.
As we go marching, marching, we’re standing proud and tall.
The rising of the women means the rising of us all.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life’s glories, bread and roses, bread and roses.
Crowded Table
You can hold my hand
When you need to let go
I can be your mountain
When you’re feeling valley-low
I can be your streetlight
Showing you the way home
You can hold my hand
When you need to let go
I want a house with a crowded table
And a place by the fire for everyone
Let us take on the world while we’re young and able
And bring us back together when the day is done
If we want a garden
We’re gonna have to sow the seed
Plant a little happiness
Let the roots run deep
If it’s love that we give
Then it’s love that we reap
If we want a garden
We’re gonna have to sow the seed
Yeah I want a house with a crowded table
And a place by the fire for everyone
Let us take on the world while we’re young and able
And bring us back together when the day is done
The door is always open
Your picture’s on my wall
Everyone’s a little broken
And everyone belongs
Yeah, everyone belongs
I want a house with a crowded table
And a place by the fire for everyone
Let us take on the world while we’re young and able
And bring us back together when the day is done
And bring us back together when the day is done
Solo El Pueblo, Salva El Pueblo
Solo El Pueblo, Salva El Pueblo
And if one of us falls, we all rise up!
