Famine Song

Arranged by Matthew Culloton Words and Music by VIDA

      
S2 
            
    Ease my spi-rit, ease my soul, please free my hands from this

A2 
  
       
hmm, hmm, hmm, ba da hmm, hmm, ba da

  
            
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           

bar - ren soil. Ease my mo - ther, ease my child, earth and sky be re - con - ciled.

    
        
hmm, hmm, ba da hmm, hmm, ba da hmm,

11
  like an overtone

      
 
Ooh
      
              
 
Ease my spi - rit, ease my soul, please free my hands from this bar - ren soil.

                     
Ease my spi - rit, ease my soul, please free my hands from this bar - ren soil.

   
        
hmm, ba da hmm, hmm, ba da hmm,

15
 

       

    
              

Ease my mo - ther, ease my child, earth and sky be re - con - ciled.

  
                


Ease my mo - ther, ease my child, earth and sky be re - con - ciled.

   
        
hmm, ba da hmm, hmm, ba da hmm,
 

Auroville Harmonies - 2022

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    
Slower, more legato  
    
20

          

 Rain, rain, rain.

  Rain, rain, rain.


                        
Rain, rain, rain.
  Rain, rain, rain.

       

 
Rain, rain, rain.
 Rain,
 rain, rain.

  
    
Rain, rain, rain. Rain, rain, rain.

 
Broadly ( =80)
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                      

             
Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild. Weave, my mo - ther,

           
 
Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child,
Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild. Weave, my mo - ther,

                     



Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild. Weave, my mo - ther,

                    


Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild. Weave, my mo - ther,

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                  

weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.

                  
weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.

  
               
weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.

    

          
 
weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.
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Two soloists, lamenting style


  
ah,
ah, ah, 
         
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
           

  
ah, ah,

    
 
Ooh


   
  
  
Ooh

     
Ooh

   ah,
                          
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 
ah,

       


  
    

 
     

ah
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               
   
ah

         
 
Un-der sun,


     
Un -der sun, 
  

     
   
   Un-der sun,

  
           
Out of heat, Un-der sun,
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     
       
  
50 legato legato

          
 of
comes the hun - ger to ev' - ry - one.
 legato   Fam-ine's teeth,  Fam-ine's claws onlegato
the sands

                   

 of
comes the hun - ger to ev' - ry - one.
 legato   Fam - ine's

teeth, Fam - ine's claws

on the sands
           
legato

       
comes the hun - ger to ev' - ry - one.
 legato   Fam-ine's teeth,  Fam-ine's claws onlegato  of
the sands
           
       
comes the hun - ger to ev' - ry - one. Fam - ine's teeth, Fam - ine's claws on the sands of

 Slower, more legato 

                
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     
A - fri - ca.
     Rain, rain, rain.
 Rain, rain,

                     
  
A - fri - ca.
 Rain, rain, rain.
 Rain, rain,

       

A - fri - ca.
 Rain,
 rain, rain.
 Rain,
 rain,

         
A - fri - ca. Rain, rain, rain. Rain, rain,

  Broadly ( =80)
                 
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 

        
rain. Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.


              

rain.

Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.

                   

rain.

Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.


       
             
rain. Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.
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Singers begin to snap fingers lightly, emulating rainfall

  
Continue until after the final chord Slower, more legato
               
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     

 Rain,
Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.

                        
  Rain,
Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild.

                  
 
Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild. Rain,

  
                
Weave, my mo - ther, weave, my child, Weave your bas - kets of ru - shes wild. Rain,

        
   
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       


rain, rain.
 Rain, rain, rain,
rain.

                      

rain, rain.
 Rain, rain, rain,
rain.


      

rain, rain.
Rain, rain, rain,
rain.

      
rain, rain. Rain, rain, rain, rain.