205. Set It Right Again with guest Ana Hernández

Lyrics:

Call: There’s a great trouble in the land 
Resp: We’re gonna set it right again 
(3x)
All: We’re gonna set it right, set it right again. 

More verses to zip in:
Trouble’s been brewing too many years
We need clean water and healthy food
People need housing, we’ve a right to thrive
Mass deportations tearing families apart
We are the ones who can change the world
We need education to build a just world
Families need childcare, they don’t need to go broke
We need fair wages, rich folk need to be taxed!
Add more verses to suit your actions.

Song: Set It Right Again
​Music by: Ana Hernández

Notes: Ana Hernández has been in the music business for quite a while, finding ways to follow the sounds she loves, to express her activist wishes, to ease her anxiety, to remember wise words... and she writes powerful, moving community songs to do all these things! Her book, the Sacred Art of Chant, was a game changer for me when I discovered it in 2019 for the way it named how singing with repetition changed my body. It was a huge honor to be in conversation with her, and then play with harmonies as we sang together (no, I didn't get ALL of them "right"! 😊 But I was having a great time!!!) "Set It Right Again" is a song to take into protests, and Ana advises listening to the speeches to adjust the lyrics to fit... newsletter subscribers will see the flowers and the little black book that get described.

Songwriter Info: Ana Hernández is a composer, recording artist, retreat leader, and activist song leader creating and collecting tunes to build living and just communities through skillful action. A theomusicologist with NYS Poor People’s Campaign, Ana is also the author of The Sacred Art of Chant: Preparing to Practice (Skylight Paths/Turner Publishing).

Sharing Info: The song is free to share in public resistance actions and oral tradition groups. Please contact Ana for recording, streaming, or performing permission. 

Song Learning Time Stamps:
Start time of teaching: 00:03:34 and 00:06:39
Start time of reprise: 01:11:55

Links:
Ana's website: https://anahernandez.org
Ana's Patreon: www.patreon.com/anahernandez 
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/in/artist/ana-hernandez/214582777 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0NGPpe3jeQqHFeFArIqYEH 
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/anahermusic 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-p9kisJu1ISLW7w6Wy2lVA 
Poor People’s Campaign: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/committee/new-york/ 
Sojourner Truth: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth 
Ghandi’s mantra Om Sri Rama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanama 
Aham Prema: you are divine love: https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/9462/aham-prema 
Raimon Panikkar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimon_Panikkar 
Malka Heifitz Tussman:  https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/quotes/quotations/view/33350/spiritual-quotation
Marcia Falk The Book of Blessings: https://www.marciafalk.com/blessings.html 
Hold My Hope: https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/teach_me_to_be_love
Open My Heart: https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/open_my_heart
Louis Armstrong: https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/ 
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain: https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/sketches-of-spain/ 
Cantus Firmus in Monteverdi Magnificat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajAq0Yd-s4 
St. Columba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba 
Ranunculus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus 
Alice Parker: “My belief is that a page of music conveys about five percent of the information needed to perform it.” https://giamusic.com/resource/the-anatomy-of-melody-book-g6765 
Augsburg Fortress Publishers: https://www.augsburgfortresspublishers.org/ 
Banquet of Love album: https://anahernandez.org/album/banquet-of-love/ 
Mame: Ethel Merman play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mame_(musical) 
Sending You Light album: https://anahernandez.org/album/sending-you-light/ 
Melanie DeMore: https://www.abreathofsong.com/apps/search?q=melanie+demore 
Caravan of Empathy: https://ruralmigrantministry.org/save-new-yorks-rural-economy-a-journey-of-empathy-caravan/ 
Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Tenderland Suite: https://www.aaroncopland.com/works/appalachian-spring/
https://www.aaroncopland.com/works/the-tender-land/
Amina Alaoui from Morocco – Alcantara: https://open.spotify.com/album/1EDReLi3Q3luXIHcUgR0k7 

Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, blues minor, call and response

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