All songs by Fannie Lou Hamer unless otherwise noted. Thank you for your witness Ms. Hamer
Pi Day.
Precious Lord
On Being a Sharecropper
Run Mourner, Run
City Called Heaven
All the Pretty Little Horses
I’m Gonna Land on the Shore
Oh Lord, You Know Just How I Feel
I’m Going Down to the River of Jordan
Jesus Is My Only Friend
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
Walk with Me
This Little Light of Mine
Mass Meeting Speech
Certainly Lord
Woke up This Morning
American Pie – Shawnee
Blueberry Pie – Bette Midler
Narcissa Cutie Pie – Joi
Sweetest Pie – Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa
14 March 2023
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13 March 2023
Orubaba – Angelique Kidjo
Swing Down Chariot – Mary D. Williams
We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Freakum Dress – Beyonce
Mama’s Crying Long – Our Native Daughters
Nobody’s Girl – Bonnie Raitt
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Going Home – Mary Fahl
The Greatest – Sia, feat. Kendrick Lamar
Water Is Life – Wanita Bird
The Sea – Morcheeba
Shimmer, Prayer for Cleaning the Water – Joy Harjo
River – Natalie Merchant
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
The Right Thing to Do – Carly Simon
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24 March 2023
Saint Oscar Romero martyrdom.
Cherokee group ended Trail of Tears
CheEl Padre Antonio Y Su Mongaguillo Andres – Ruben Blades
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project
El Salvador – Peter, Paul, & Mary
Eulogy for Oscar Romero – Jean-Luc Ponty
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Filed under Louisville, Music, playlist
23 March 2023
Stand Up = Cynthia Erivo
If Only I could Win Your Love – Emmylou Harris
Saint Judas – Natalie Merchant
Fireflies – Zendaya
In the Air Tonight – Larkin Poe
Mood Indigo – Ella Fitzgerald, feat. Oscar Peterson
Te Ata – J25
Bob Dylan’s Dream – Judy Collins
Strong Enough – Sheryl Crow
Help Yourself – Joan Armatrading
When a Woman – Shakira
Le Reve du Queteux Tremblay – Eileen Ivers
Bean Phaldin – Celtic Woman
Were You There – Mahalia Jackson
Gloria – Patti Smith
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12 March 2023
Down for Whatever – Kelly Rowland, feat. The WAV.s
Frozen Charlotte – Natalie Merchant
Pachelbel’s Canon – Eileen Ivers
Lakutshona Llango – Angelique Kidjo
He’ll Never Love You – Hayley Kiyoko
Dark Eyes – Judy Collins
So Many Ways – Carole King
Goodbye My Friend – Linda Ronstadt
No Nos Moveran – Joan Baez
MEGATRON – Nicki Minaj
Retribution – Tanya Tagaq
Change My Heart – Indigo Girls
She Works Hard for the Money – Donna Summer
원해요 – TARIN
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11 March 2023
Treadmill. Gym at the Apartment.
Stretching. Arms with hand weights. Small core work. Aglarond.
Let No Man Put Asunder – Mary J. Blige
I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
Effigy – Natalie Merchant
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
Peace and Power – Joanne Shenandoah
NYC Bitche$ – Awkwafina
Never Let Go – Nitanis “Kit” Largo
We Are Here – Sharon Burch
I’m Going Down to the River of Jordan – Fannie Lou Hamer
Nighty River – Mary J. Bilge
Orinico Flow – Ebya
River Song – Stiff Gins
Never Know – Angelique Kidjo
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
22 March 2023
Treadmill. Gym at the Apartment.
Stretching. Arms with hand weights. Small core work. Aglarond.
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Jerome – Lizzo
The Ocean – Tegan & Sara
The Lower Road – Joan Baez
Mean Old Bedbug Blues – Bessie Smith
Trouble – Indigo Girls
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance – Sinead O’Connor
Kaibiganm- Lea Salonga
Trail of Life – Sharon Burch
We Shall Remain – Kalolin Johnson
Across the Border – Linda Ronstadt and Emmy Lou Harris
Break Your Heart – Natalie Merchant
Love’s a Hard Game to Play – Stevie Nicks
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St. Patrick’s Day
I speak for no others,
only for myself.
For me, this day has
nothing to do with
green beer or
green clothing,
this day has nothing to do with
pinching me or kissing me;
my bad jokes aside,
this day has nothing to do even with Jameson.
Today is a day
to remember oppression
to honor resistance
to recognize that, despite the efforts of
systems of race and racialization
to separate us,
struggles for dignity and justice,
freedom and equality,
human rights and humanity
are inseparably linked:
none of us are free until all of us are free.
for that reason, in that spirit, and in my own fashion,
I mark this day, and each 17th of March.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
Fitzgerald, from County Cork, on my mother’s side
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A prayer about steps
We rejoice with all your beloved children
who took their first steps today;
may their families and friends
love, nurture, and protect them;
may we create a society
in which they are cared for well.
We remember all your beloved children
who took their final steps today;
may they already be received into your nearer presence
where pain is no more and all tears are wiped away;
may those who mourn receive comfort and support
as they walk this shadowed valley.
We pray in the name of your Beloved Child Jesus,
the itinerant preacher who proclaimed and lived your love.
Amen.
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10 March 2023
Harriet Tubman.
March up Fifth – Eileen Ivers
Always in My Head – Indi.Arie
Universal Soldier – Buffy Sainte-Marie
No More – Fawn Wood
Streets of London – Mary Hopkin
The Holy Ground – Mary Black
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Joan Baez
Follow the Drinking Gourd – Taj Mahal
Steal Away – The Princely Players
The Ballad of Harriet Tubman – Magpie
Go Down, Moses – Paul Robeson
Harriet Tubman – Holly Near
Harriet Tubman/Steal Away – Kin & Reggie Harris
Stand Up – Cynthia Erivo
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