[HANASHIR:7159] Re: Jewish songs for Social change

[janeen kobrinsky <janeen...>]

and please don't forget Noah Budin's "early in the morning"

janeen

Janeen Kobrinsky
Lay Rabbi
Temple Beth El
701.232.0441
www.kobrinsky.com

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From: <NBudin (at) aol(dot)com>
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:7158] Re: Jewish songs for Social change


> I always include songs in my show that I say "are not Jewish, but not not
> Jewish." For instance, "The Hammer Song" by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays,
> embodies just about every value that I've learned as a Jew...Justice,
> Freedom, Love, etc. So if your songs don't have to be necessarily Jewish
in
> origin, here is a partial list... (pardon my spelling of names)...
>
> Blowin' In The Wind...Bob Dylan
> Circle Chant...Linda Hirschhorn
> Doing My Job...John McCutcheon
> Lo Yisa Goy
> Down By The Riverside
> Light One Candle...Peter Yarrow
> Don't Laugh at Me...Peter Yarrow
> No Easy Walk to Freedom...Peter Yarrow
> Man Come Into Egypt...Fred Hellerman
> Sing Mandela Free...Charlie King
> Somos El Barco...Lorre Wyatt
> This Land Is Your Land (all the verses)...Woody Guthrie
> Wade In The Water...
> Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom...African American Spirituals
> Weave Me the Sunshine...Peter Yarrow
> Peace Is...Fred Small
> Everything Possible...Fred Small
> This Little Light...Trad.
> We Shall Overcome...Trad. African American Spiritual (adapted by Pete
Seeger
> among many others)
> Check out the catalogues of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie
> Find the book "Rise Up Singing" edited by Peter Blood and Annie Patterson
>
> Hope this helps.
> Noah Budin
> Singer/songwriter
> Cleveland, OH
> NBudin (at) aol(dot)com
>

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