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Feb. 25th, 2005 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildI love this song. Definitely a favorite of mine of the ones we're singing. Hard, too, of course. *lol*
Anyway. It's based on a poem written by one of the first women to become an Episcopal priest. Here's the actual poem:
Call
There is a new sound
of roaring voices in the deep
and light-shattered rushes in the heavens;
the mountains are coming alive,
the fire-kindled mountains, moving again
to reshape the earth.
It is we sleeping women,
waking up in a darkened world,
cutting the chains from off our bodies
with our teeth, stretching our lives
over the slow earth,
seeing, moving, breathing in the vigor
that commands us to make all things new.
It has been said that while the women sleep,
the earth shall sleep.
But listen! We are waking up and rising,
and soon our sisters will know their strength.
The earth-moving day is here.
We women wake to move in fire.
The earth shall be remade.
Alla Bozarth, 1974
The end bit, where we sing, "The earth shall be remade, shall be remade..." sends shivers up my spine. Doesn't hurt that on my practice CD, she put a recording of another chorus singing it.
Oh man. June is sooner than I thought. Yikes. *lol* I need to practice! But it's hard to find a place/time where I can sing along with a CD and not feel really really self-concious. Grrr.
And what's with this "work" thing I gotta go to? Who the hell invented that??
Anyway. It's based on a poem written by one of the first women to become an Episcopal priest. Here's the actual poem:
Call
There is a new sound
of roaring voices in the deep
and light-shattered rushes in the heavens;
the mountains are coming alive,
the fire-kindled mountains, moving again
to reshape the earth.
It is we sleeping women,
waking up in a darkened world,
cutting the chains from off our bodies
with our teeth, stretching our lives
over the slow earth,
seeing, moving, breathing in the vigor
that commands us to make all things new.
It has been said that while the women sleep,
the earth shall sleep.
But listen! We are waking up and rising,
and soon our sisters will know their strength.
The earth-moving day is here.
We women wake to move in fire.
The earth shall be remade.
Alla Bozarth, 1974
The end bit, where we sing, "The earth shall be remade, shall be remade..." sends shivers up my spine. Doesn't hurt that on my practice CD, she put a recording of another chorus singing it.
Oh man. June is sooner than I thought. Yikes. *lol* I need to practice! But it's hard to find a place/time where I can sing along with a CD and not feel really really self-concious. Grrr.
And what's with this "work" thing I gotta go to? Who the hell invented that??
