Join us in song and solidarity!
**** Playlist (and how the songs are sung) are subject to change! ***
NOTE (3-19) WE 'LL BE UPDATING THIS LIST BY 3-22 - some songs will be removed and new ones added.
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(Alexandray "Ahlay" Blakely)
Courage
is not the absence of fear
It is the feeling of this fear
Being afraid and *showing up anyway
*Variations: standing up / speaking out / singing out
(Coco Love Alcorn)
[Chorus]
Gather your courage into your heart
When we're together we can start (x2)
Everybody show up (echo)
Everybody rise up (echo)
Everybody shake it up (echo)
Everybody here (echo)
[Chorus]
Everybody speak out (echo)
Everybody reach out (echo)
Everybody shake it out (echo)
Everybody here (echo)
[Chorus]
Gather this power (echo)
into our hands (echo)
Care for each other (echo)
on these lands (echo)
[Chorus]
(Heidi Wilson)
Hold on, hold on
my dear ones here comes the dawn
(Alex Noelle Music)
If you've got a voice (echo)
Speak up for the silenced (echo)
If you've got a choice (echo)
Stand against the violence (echo)
Every hurting neighbor (echo)
Is human just like you (echo)
If you care about freedom (echo)
Care about theirs too (echo)
(Melanie DeMore)
You gotta put one foot in front of the other
and lead with love.
You gotta put one foot in front of the other
and lead with love. (x2)
Don’t give up hope. (echo)
You’re not alone. (echo)
Don’t you give up. (echo)
Keep movin’ on. (echo)
[Chorus]
Lift up your eyes. (echo)
Don’t you despair. (echo)
Look up ahead. (echo)
The path is there. (echo)
[Chorus]
I know you’re scared (echo)
and I’m scared too. (echo)
But here I am, (echo)
right next to you. (echo)
[Chorus]
(Annie Schlaefer)
Ooh it's okay to change your mind
Show us your courage
leave this behind
Ooh it's okay to change your mind
And you can join us
Join us here anytime
(Annie Schlaefer)
We gotta do more than just talk about it
We're moving our feet (echo)
Getting out in the street (echo)
We gotta do more than just talk about it
We take a stand (echo)
We know we can (echo)
(Joshua Blaine)
No one is getting left behind this time (x3)
We get there together, or never get there at all (x3)
(Lu Aya of the Peace Poets)
This is for our *neighbors who are locked inside
Together, we will, Abolish ICE
*Variations: families, children
(Heather Mae)
(whole song is call and response - aka echo)
The night is long
But still we rise
No backing down
We won't be quiet
Though fear and pain
Are in our streets
Our voices roar
'til all are free
(repeat 3 x)
End with:
'til all are free, 'til all are free, 'til all are free.
(Sarina Partridge)
We are here (We are here)
With our *voices (With our *voices )
Our love for each other
will carry us through
*Variations: city / neighbors / courage / grief / families / children / hope / demands
(Lu Aya of the Peace Poets)
English:
We are not afraid, we are not afraid.
We will live for liberation
cuz we know why we were made
Spanish:
No tengo miedo, no tengo miedo.
Viviré por la libertad
porque yo se mi razon de ser
We *breathe together (x 3)
Stop the deportations
*Variations: march / sing / etc
Ending repeating:
Stop the deportations
(The Peace Poets and SKOR)
Who keeps us safe? (echo)
We keep us safe. (echo)
Our love for our people (echo)
will conquer hate! (echo)
(Repeat several times -then put it all together without echo)
Who keeps us safe?
We keep us safe.
Our love for our people
will conquer hate!
(Annie Schlaefer)
We walk the same ground (echo)
But we've been torn apart (echo)
Put down your *weapons (echo)
Come sing your part (echo)
*Variations: hatred / anger