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Bellow

from In Our Voices by Moira Smiley

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Please don’t give up. Please don’t hide your voice. So many people did not have that choice.

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Sometime, anytime you wanna bellow at the sky, call on me, call on me.
We’ll unzip the horizon with our voices.

You ask me why I sing softer now, and did the world beat me down? Cuz back then I sang hard, I sang proud, but where are the edges now?

Ukrainian summer before the revolution. I sat at the knees of the grandmother.
Her daughter told me we could lift the veil between the worlds by singing.

We were sat outside in the dawn light of the midsummer feast and the short night. Singing to the dead so they’d bless the crop, bless the young, bless the year

We’ll unzip the horizon with our voices.
Sometime, anytime you wanna bellow at the sky, call on me, call on me.
We’ll unzip the horizon with our voices.

This is the way we call the unknown, and lift the veil to the other side. We’re singing to break the walls down the walls down. Throwing the gate open wide!
Every breath I take has been taken before.
Every note’s been sung. Who can I sing them all again for?
Baba, Baba Baba….

Please don’t give up - please don’t lose that sound. So many people fought to gain that ground.
Please don’t give up – please don’t hide your voice.  So many people did not have that choice.

She told me the power of song was in the unison. She gathered her friends all around her, and they pierced the sky with a call - one melody from many voices.

And from then til now, I remember, when the year is fat, and full of shadows, I’m singing to the dead so they’ll bless the crop, bless the young, bless the year.

Every breath I take has been taken before.
Every note’s been sung. Who can I sing them all again for?
Baba, Baba Baba….

Please don’t give up - please don’t lose that sound. So many people fought to gain that ground.
Please don’t give up – please don’t hide your voice.  So many people did not have that choice.

Unzip the horizon with our voices.

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from In Our Voices, released February 19, 2021
Moira Smiley - soprano vocals + body percussion + sound design
Karla Mundy - soprano vocals + body percussion
Dawn Pemberton - alto vocals + body percussion
Jake Asaro - tenor vocals + body percussion
Gregory Fletcher - bass vocals + body percussion

Produced by Moira Smiley & David Weber. 2020
copyright Moira Smiley Music, ASCAP All Rights Reserved

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Moira Smiley Bristol, Vermont

Moira Smiley is a Singer / Composer. Touring & writing with the finest in various worlds of music, she brings clarity and visceral emotion to any song she sings. She accompanies herself on banjo, accordion, piano, and hand & body percussion. She's toured with Tune-Yards and Solas among many others. Moira recently sang with Tune-Yards on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. ... more

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