• BELTAINE/MOUNTAIN SONG DANCE • CAPO 5 see recording ~Sept. 15 mountain dance song snippet~ Voice Memos ~ *** ADD YOUR LYRICS SUGGESTIONS HERE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6SOGBrRjsvLWNk8PUKgYEUl20pGi1XVGRpOllhfoCY/edit?usp=sharing *** INST /G D G G / x4 VERSE I At the top of the mountain is a circle At the heart of the circle is a flame Wild wolves are dancing all around it Howling the Holy name! //ALT: At the _G_ end of the _D_ road there is a _G_ doorway; At the heart of the _C_ circle is a fire; Well we know the change is coming our way; And they’re building the funeral pyre! CHORUS Gone gone all night long; Lose my mind /and all that’s wrong / in heart and song; Like water, rolling home; Don’t look for me I’m gone! INST /G D G G / x4 *** VERSES At the top… / On the side... ...of the mountain is a circle At the heart of the circle is a flame; Wild wolves are howling … dancing all around it(you) … are howling at the doorway; Calling the holy name! *** At the heart of the body is a searchlight It’s waiting to catch your eye At the root of the vision is a song that Says your love is justified *** At the heart of the valley is a circle At the heart of the circle is a flame Wild wolves are dancing all around you Howling the holy name *** (From the blackness…) (In the darkness…) (In the distance) riders are approaching They Herald the coming holy dawn at the moment the moonlight is encroaching But as long as the stars are still in motion Let the carnival carry on! … stag-horned dancers *** Inside of the mountain is a doorway Inside of the doorway is a flame... Inside of the mind there is a doorway Inside of the doorway is an eye… Wild wolves are dancing at the doorway ...Calling your holy name *** Outside of the mind there is a window outside of the window is a door… Outside of the mind … body… there is a parkway (... is a doorway) I’ll drive it until I’m gone ...don’t worry and I won’t follow; I won’t tell them who ...where you are. At the end of the road there is a doorway (Outside of the window there’s a doorway) Don’t look for me I’ll be gone *** *** CHORUSES ...heal my heart from all that’s wrong ...heal my mind of all that’s wrong … with dance and song ...lose my mind and sing my/(y)our song like water rolling home! don’t look for me I’m gone. ••• love love fire and love take my hand and strut your stuff ...ride my stuff holler … if you’ve had enough! ...(holla if u want some more!) (this stuff!) … for the holy ones! don’t look for me I’m gone. *** Holy Spirit flesh & bone By your fire take me home Dancing for the holy ones! Don’t look for me I’m gone. *** ~All of us are blessed ones~ … earth / moon & sun / Howling at the/for the… *** *** BRIDGE I don’t’ know a thing ‘bout love God sends angels down from above To wash my heart… ...to brush my heart like a morning dove… ...and to wish me luck... ...and to lift me up... Don’t look for me I’m gone! 2nd time around: :don’t look for me I’m gone :don’t look for me I’m gone :don’t look for me I’m gone :don’t look for me I’m gone *** *** ADDITIONAL: May pole dance Rising flame Source of life Holy game! *** *** *** VERSE G D G G G D G G G D G G G D G G *** CHORUS G G C G G G D G G G C C G D G G *** BRIDGE Am Bm C D-G G G-C (C) G-C G G 2nd time around: ...Am Bm C C... (repeat) G C G G *** ~ALT Em Em Bm C (Am) Bm Bm C C :Bm Am C C :Am Bm C C :G Bm C C :G D G G *** ***

Rosa by Mica Sunshine CM7 A7 Dm G7 Rosa with the most-a coyote of steps prancing through the sagebrush ex-ceeding all bets [higher/falsetto(?)] Rosa is becoming a-wake in the wild a moon beam on the campfire, she dances with style! [falsetto] oohh… oooo … oooo …. oooo

Spirit Wind / Dm C C Dm / Spirit wind, spirit wind, dance around me spirit wind Whirl wind, Whirl wind, spin around me spirit wind Carry me where I must go Sing to me what I must know Carry me across the earth Singing songs of our rebirth

DANCE OF THE WILD FAERIES // Am Am Dm Am / G Am E E / Am Am Dm Am / G Am E Am // Am G // C C G G / Dm Dm Am Am / C C G G / Dm Am E E(Am on 2nd) /// End on AMajor I wandered alone to the forest one night Led by a music strange to hear And followed the glow of a shimmering light That seemed to grow distant as I grew near The woods were alive with the fragrance of spring But winter was everywhere clear to see The moon shone bright and a bat on the wing Beckoned me closer and said to me A clearing close in the forest you'll find A fabulous banquet, a faerie ball If you close your eyes and you open your mind The veil disappears and you'll see it all / C C G G / Dm Dm Am Am / C C G G / Dm Am E E(Am) // Come and play as the wild fairies play In a magical circle, a faerie ring You won't want to leave and forever you'll stay Where the vision is bright as spring Come and dance the wild faerie dance Spin in a circle as fast as light Once you begin you are caught in a trance And the world can grow old in a single night // Am Am Dm Am / G Am E E / Am Am Dm Am / G Am E Am // Am When I closed my eyes to the shimmering light All memory faded and I could see That a mushroom circle of red and white And myriad faeries surrounded me Beyond all space and beyond all time On gossamer wings did the faeries fly With a joy unknown to a music sublime The faeries danced, and there danced I [SUGGESTION: extra verse here, no singing - chance to do the mushroom dance - michael] [would it be nice to have a string section !? - ooh Ash’s flute! ] G // C C G G / Dm Dm Am Am / C C G G / Dm Am E Am Come and play as the wild faeries play… In a magical circle, a faerie ring You won't want to leave and forever you'll stay Where the vision is bright as spring Come and dance the wild faerie dance Spin in a circle as fast as light Once you begin you are caught in a trance And the world can grow old in a single night // Am Am Dm Am / G Am E E / Am Am Dm Am / G Am E Am //... Those who seek us surely find us See the trail we leave behind us Some bewildered, some enlightened Some are brave, some are frightened _hold E_ Are we kind or are we vicious? Nectar poison or delicious? That, my sweet, you will discover Faerie foe, or faerie lover G // C C G G / Dm Dm Am Am / C C G G / Dm Am E Am Come and play as the wild faeries play In a magical circle, a fairy ring You won't want to leave and forever you'll stay Where the vision is bright as spring Come and dance the wild faerie dance Spin in a circle as fast as light Once you begin you are caught in a trance And the world can grow old in a single night // Am Am Dm Am / G Am E E / Am Am Dm Am / I wandered alone to the forest one night Led by a music strange and clear If you happen to pass when the moon is bright / Dm Am E Am / And the veils are thin you will find me here If the veils are thin you will find me here… (End with A)

"Over the Dying Day, Oh!" (Fill in rest of story as you imagine it)

ICICLE, ICICLE ~ lyrics (capo 2, as: Am Dm Am Em) (~KEEP TEMPO SLOW, DELICATE AND STEADY ~) true key of Bm : // Bm Bm EmBm F#m // Icicle icicle in the night Spring is come tomorrow, hey! Time resumes its feathered flight All things young must pass this way Can you catch a falling star hold it in your hands and say “this is mine but for a time”— all things new grow old one day Snowflake spinning thru the sky will these patterns pass away? Sunlight rides on leaf-light wings dreaming of the coming Spring/day (Time is but a passing veil fallen ‘cross the eyes of day parts a curtain in the mind ~ in the end return to clay) Icicle icicle in the night Spring is come tomorrow, hey! Time resumes its feathered flight All things young must pass this way Snowflake spinning thru the sky Wheels turning in the eye will these patterns pass away? Sunlight rides on leaf-light wings put your hopes and dreams away set your hopes and dreams as d... join the currents in the deeps join the currents deep and wide dreaming of the coming Spring May/day

fae rising capo 2 8/4 fae rising rising rising rising fae rising feathers in her heart stirring queen of ice and snow stirring queen of the dark hollow stirring queen of the green tomorrow fae rising we’ve dreamed so many dreams this year dreaming dreaming of the coming day which dreams of yours will see the sky? growing in the hearts of time when life again can rise and open reaching as sun embraces her which dreams of your will die and pass away dreaming, dreaming of the coming spring dreaming of the spring

(Instrumental free-form - "Playing in D" - by Mica Sunshine)

O January Father In your nest of firelight, Father ticks on the dark, wood shelf— while mother bursts with fitful light, dancing upon the mantle. You dream with beady hunter’s eyes in snowy forests deep, in patchwork northern fields— birds blushed by blazing sun striking off snow. You make your comfort here— fresh warm stew of startled deer— where spinning songs vibrate in air from others’ hearts to yours. Dark hallways open to a deafness— beyond which fireworks— a gun— flash blaze of winter night. Tell me, O Father, Oaken in your fields — How deep your roots in this winter’s nest of whispered words, of the icy fields and snow?

Lyrics William Allingham (1824-1889) Chords/Melody: Michael Whitmire A A D A / G G G A A E A D / D A ED A The Fairies UP the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And a white owl's feather! Down along the rocky shore Some make their home, They live on crispy pancakes Of yellow tide-foam; Some in the reeds Of the Black Mountain lake, With frogs for their watch-dogs, All night awake. They stole little Bridget For seven years long; When she came down again Her friends were all gone. They took her lightly back, Between the night and morrow, They thought that she was fast asleep, But she was dead with sorrow. They have kept her ever since Deep within the lake, On a bed of flag-leaves, Watching till she wake. By the craggy hill-side, Through the mosses bare, They have planted thorn-trees For pleasure here and there. Is any man so daring As dig them up in spite, He shall find their sharpest thorns In his bed at night. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And a white owl's feather!

********************** —> INSTR VERSE intro - (pause!)] ( // what do stories mean, in the end? why does change always come? // what have you to give if you don’t have a friend / be it earth or the face of the sun ) VERSE 1: ***START firebird spreading your wings out of the darkness light flashes born from a circle of flames rising again from the ashes! CHORUS x1: // catch me as I rise, like the sun! // seeing all beings as one. VERSE 2: (vox on octave:) time on the tips of her wings bright burns the jewel on the water flying so fierce as she sings I am the holy one’s daughter! 4x CHORUS 2x: // catch me as I rise, like the sun! // seeing all beings as one. // catch me as I rise, like the sun! // seeing all beings as one. [big break/pause to fingerpicking] INSTR. VERSE BRIDGE: LOUD time is a wedding band rolling away now that the morning has come; truth is a door at the end of the day; mystic and wide as the sun! // (x2) OH, LAH DI DUM… (x2) [VAST] OH, LAH DI DUM… (x2) [VAST] VERSE 3 [soft] : are we like stars in the sky?; burn for a moment then darken?; out of the dust that remains countless new stars will awaken! (VERSE 1:) firebird spreading your wings out of the darkness light flashes born from a circle of flames rising again from the ashes! [CHORUS ?(—> INSTR. VERSE?) // what do stories mean, in the end? why does change always come? // what have you to give if you don’t have a friend / be it earth or the face of the sun ?[—> INSTR. VERSE?) (as needed.) CHORUS: x2 [BOLD] //catch me as I rise, like the sun! seeing all beings as one! (x2) //catch me as i rise, like the sun! seeing all beings as one. ...seeing all beings… 4x ********************* OUTRO: … x4 Firebird spreading her wings!...] END [--> repeat BRIDGE ] CHORUS: catch me as I rise, like the sun seeing all beings as onnnn-e. LAH DI DHUM... catch! me as! i rah-ah-ahise, like the sun; seeing all beings as one. seeing all being as seeing all beings as one - one!

Za za – full theatrical version: Inside the hive • //bm7 a :// (played double-stop up high with an open A for the bass) (in theatrical piece a hive/comb-building song will insert in this) (note: zaza refrain returns from throughout theatrical piece as the “memory of the hive-mind” signal...) (queen laying eggs) [instrumental] – fox’s lick Everybody: [refrain] Za za za za za Za za za za za Za za za za za Za za za... (x2) To pips: Bees in honey time Nectar on the vine Water from the root Rising to the shoot (x2) [either repeat or zaza or, zaza then repeat verse then zaza] Queen (teaching): From the flower to the honeycomb, Got to bring that precious nectar home! (x2) [all repeat/response] Maidens to all (of their joy): (fanning pips) Rising with the sun On this life’s mission Happy honey’s kiss (feeding honey to wiggling pips) This is insect bliss! [zaza then repeat verse] Everybody, incl. Pips: [za za za za za!...] [or repeat] Drones: Drones exploring in the summertime Bringing home the bees’ new nursery rhyme! (visions of a nursery rhyme!) Alt: visions ... Divine Bringing visions of the world divine... Life so fine... Through the fields and the hives we go Harmlessly returning messages! Drones: [synchopated and echoed zaza-zaza-zaza-zaza za za! [repeat 4x] *** Drones/foragers: In the time we spend Dancing with the wind (Weaving kin to kin (On the paths we tend -[zaza] Drones/foragers: In the time we spend... [repeat...] -[zaza] ???Who??? See the face of rising sun above Springtime brings fresh warmth and nectar’s love! Foragers/returning foragers: Feel the passing of the sun above Fields in blossom yield nectar’s love! [repeat and zaza as before] all (acapella): [culminating] Every creature carries medicine! Sweet vibration of the life within! (repeat) (or as musical return during foraging module) Break / dramatic moment:(at end or 2/3 through – as dramatic & beautiful moment.) See the face of rising sun!!!!— [all music stops] ***

Thank you all very much.