Wisdom Song

Capoeira

Ô sim sim sim, Ô não não não

La La ê,(3) La La ê La

Sobe maré

Desce maré

Vou pra ilha de maré

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Stick Dance

Sou eu, sou eu sou eu, Maculêlê, sou eu

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Samba

Little Liza Jane

Marhinero só

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Sing through my voice

Play through my hands

Let the way be open

Forget your perfect offering

Just ring the bells that still can ring

There is crack in everything

That’s how .. the light .. gets in

Earth my body, water my blood

air my breath and fire my spirit

Only in silence the word

Only in dark the light

Only in dying life

Bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky

If you want to get up to the joy

you got to go down deep

So go down go down go down.

The illness seeks the medicine so go down

We can do this, we will rise

Everytime I go into the dark, I return with fistfulls of jewels

Midnight velvet wraps all around me, stars glitter brilliant above

Dreaming darkness, dreaming light

Step by step the longest march can be won can be won

Many stones to form an arch sing’ly not sing’ly none

And by union what we will can be accomplished still

Drops of water turn the mill sing”ly none singly none

We shall be known by the company we keep - By the ones who circle round to tend these fires

We shall b 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

With all that has been take lessons take lessons and be grateful

Let go, let go, let go, let go, let go and move move on , move on

We are a people of the full height of our power

This is the place and now is the hour

We recognize our sacred worth

We have the power to transform the earth

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