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Reconciliation Dreaming
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A Celtic Australian's 'Sorry' song to the Koories and Nungahs of Oz
folk pagan acoustic folk druid old ballads pagan folk trad folk traditional folk
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folk singer with acoustic guitar, singing traditional folk-songs and old ballads, and pagan, specifically druidic.
i play guitar and recorders and sing traditional american, english, irish, scottish and australian folksongs, old ballads and some of my own songs. my own songs tend to have pagan themes, specifically, druidic. sometimes one of my friends joins me and we sing harmonies. very occasionally, we sing in other languages.
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Acoustic • Acoustic General
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#2,846 in subgenre Peak #50
Charts
Peak #367
Author
vyvyan ogma wyverne
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no copyright
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May 18, 2009
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MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 3:33
Story behind the song
I was feeling sorry - real shock, real pain - to think I was born of stolen land to live a privileged life oblivious to the cultural devastation of the people who were here first. I talked to many Nungah people and they told me they're not just victims. they told me of the power of the land and the spirit of the people - they told me of the dreaming and the spirits of the dreamtime. once, camping out in the mallee I had a vision, the vision described in this song: reconciliation dreaming.
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when the rainbow snake came winding from the sacred dreamtime spring from the colours of her infinite spectra she made all beautiful things she made the eternal dreamings of the trees and the stones and the stars if you gaze in silence at the end of the rain you can see her sacred tjurunga refrain: do you think that the dreamtime ended when the white people's history starts? do you think that the dreamtime spirits' love couldn't penetrate white people's hearts? our hard hard hearts... Mistletoe man went a-fishing in the dreamtime waterhole caught him a fish and it tasted good when he cooked it on the coals then he took the skeleton of that dreamtime fish and he flung it far away and it grew as it flew and it landed ribs up as a ship in botany bay refrain: do you think that... ... white people's hearts? our cold cold hearts? mistletoe dreamtime spirit man child of the earth and the sky when i see that skeleton in your hand i begin to understand why our lives are dreamed by the rainbow snake every little thing that we do our lives and our laws and our long, bitter wars and our reconciliations too. refrain: do you think... ... white people's hearts? mmm mmm mmm no i don;t think the dreamtime ended when the white people's history starts cos i know that the dreamtime spirits' love can penetrate white people's hearts - because it penetrated mine, yes it penetrated mine oh it penetrated mine.
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