Walking. Morningside Gardens. The Shire.
Water Is Life – Wanita Bird
The Sea – Morcheeba
Wade in the Water – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Rain Song – Sharon Burch
Shimmer, Prayer for Cleaning the Water – Joy Harjo
Where Peaceful Waters Flow – Gladys Knight & The Pips
River – Natalie Merchant
Cherokee River – Walela
I’m Going Down to the River of Jordan – Fannie Lou Hamer
Mighty River – Mary J. Blige
Orinoco Flow – Enya
Bridge over Troubled Water – Aretha Franklin
River Song – Stiff Gins
Proud of Your Boy – Aladdin (the Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge song – thanks Sean)
Tag Archives: Morningside Gardens
22 March 2020
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Music, New York, playlist
21 March 2020
Walking Morningside Gardens. Pacing The Shire. Searching for The Plague (found it).
Trail of Life – Sharon Burch
Daylight – Alison Krauss & Union Station
In the Quiet Morning – Joan Baez
Never Know – Angelique Kidjo
Ain’t No Way – Aretha Franklin
Diamonds on the Water – Stiff Gins
NYC Bitche$ – Awkwafina
Sorry – Beyonce
Short Supply – Tracy Chapman
Nick of Time – Bonnie Raitt
Kilimanjaro – Miriam Makeba
New Life – Briana Lea Pruett
Everyday is a Windy Road – Sheryl Crow
Carolina in My Mind – Melanie
Unpretty – TLC
The Grass Is Always Greener – Woman of the Year (the Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge song – thanks Sean)
20 March 2020
Walking. Morningside Gardens. Pacing. The Shire.
Mercy/Gatekeeper – Hayley Kiyoko
Golden Light – Lucia Hwong
Pakuchii No Uta – Hikura Utada
Waiting for Your Return – Jasmine Chen
Someday – Ruby Ibarra
Wounded – Jessi Lee
It’s Me – Kahi
Compassion – Magdalen Hsu- Li
Yellow Ranger – Awkwafina
Step – f(x)
Doi Goi Em Biet Bao Lan – Hong Nhung
Quiet – MILCK
Arrived – Jessi
The Calling – Sera
Yellow – Katherine Ho
Resist – Lea Salonga
Dream – Priscilla Ahn
Sisters, O Sisters – Yoko Ono
All Along the Watchtower – Luna
Put on Your Sunday Clothes – Hello Dolly
Three themes in this list. I’ll give you the third. Put on Your Sunday Clothes is the outlier. I am working with Sean to do the 30 day Broadway songs challenge. He picks the song each day. I put it on my playlist. This is day 1. I’ll let you figure out the other two themes.
14 March 2020
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Unless otherwise noted, all songs are by Fannie Lou Hamer to honor her memory and give thanks for her work and witness on the anniversary of her death.
Blueberry Pie – Bette Midler
Precious Lord
On Being a Sharecropper
Run Mourner, Run
City Called Heaven
All the Pretty 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 – Shea Diamond
13 March 2020
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
That’s Alright – Ranky Tanky
With God on Our Side – Judy Collins
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man – Aretha Franklin
Beneath the Raven Moon – Mary Youngblood
Spirit of Love – Bonnie Raitt
This Old Town – Nanci Griffith
Sober – Demi Lovato
Changes – Adina Nyree
Do It Well – Jennifer Lopez
The Other Side – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Oremi – Angelique Kidjo
The Greatest – Sia
Mercedes Benz – Janis Joplin
Green Light – Beyonce
Remember the Tinman – Tracy Chapman
Cherokee River – Walela
The Happening – The Supremes
12 March 2020
Walking. Morningside Gardens. Midtown Manhattan.
Orubaba – Angelique Kidjo
Swing Down Chariot – Mary D. Williams
We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Stand Tall – Rebecca Riots
Freakum Dress – Beyonce
Mama’s Cryin’ Long – Our Native Daughters
Nobody’s Girl – Bonnie Raitt
I’m Ready – Tracy Chapman
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Gift of Love – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart – The Supremes
Satisfied – Sia
Good Morning Heartache – Billie Holiday
FIREMOUTH – Sera
polka.com – Eileen Ivers
Deep Blue Dream – Yola
Going Home – Mary Fahl
4 March 2020
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
All songs by Miriam Makeba.
Africa Is Where My Heart Lies
Pata Pata 2000
Kwazulu
Nongqongqo
Khawuleza
Olilili
Suliram
The Click Song
Saduva
Iya Guduza
Lakutshn Ilanga
Umhome
Homeland
Amampondo
Dubula
Dwedini
Lindelani
Pole Mze
Le Fleuve
Kilimanjaro
25 February 2020
The plan had been for this one to be the February 23 playlist with the last three songs marking the anniversary of the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Joe Hill – Paul Robeson
Bring It on Home to Me – Sam Cooke
I Feel a Song – Gladys Knight & The Pips
Rocking Chair Blues – Ray Charles
It Hurts Me Too – Keb’ Mo’
Ring the Alarm – Beyonce
Ebony Eyes – Stevie Wonder
Rhythm Child – Carlos Jones and the Plus Band
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free – Nina Simone
Behind Enemy Lines – Dead Prez
Love Revolution – Lenny Kravitz
Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron
Harriet Tumban/Steal Away – Kim & Reggie Harris
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Complexion – Kendrick Lamar
Navajo Code Talkers – Jack Gladstone
Ira Hayes – Peter LaFarge
Along the Graybeard Trail 