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3/23/2022 0 Comments

42. Be Safe, My Love

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Song Be Safe, My Love
Music & Words by Juliana Murphy.
Music inspired by the traditional song, "Katie Dear",
​and words by a passage in Diana, Herself by Martha Beck.
Lyrics
Be safe, my love; be well, my dear one.
Live in joy and peace, my sweet friend.
For we are here, we are awakened;
​fear no more, and take your rest.

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Notes: Creativity is so often the process of connecting disparate things in a new way. Juliana Murphy crafted this sweet, reassuring wish for safety, wellness, and fearlessness by combining a text from a modern-day fable of awakening with a folk song that came with disturbing, murderous lyrics. She adjusted both and ended up with a song that to me, at least, sits easily in the voice, and lightly on the spirit. I can send this wish to myself, family members, friends, or strangers. I don't take "awakened" to be a politically-angsty, aggressive kind of "wokeness", but rather an eyes-opened kind of awareness and presence that lets me register the world immediately around me. As always, you get to take this song and make it your own now -- what is it that you wish for yourself and those around you that is actually already true? How much fear can we release as we sing?

Songwriter Info: Juliana Murphy (she/her) comes to the circle with a lifelong love of singing and a library of original and collected songs that connect us to ourselves, nature, and the cycles and rhythms of being a human on this planet. She brings a deep desire to sing a more beautiful, inclusive, loving, sustainable, and delightful world into being. Juliana co-leads the Tucson Community Song Circle and is a graduate of the Littlebird Songleader Flight School for community songleading.

Links: 
Juliana's blogpost about this song, with her recording: ​Be Safe, My Love — juliana murphy
Juliana's website: https://www.julianamurphy.com/waking-lullabies
Instagram: @wakinglullabies


Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, Major,  harmonized
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