Turning Toward the Morning
An all-purpose playlist of hope, in varying degrees of willfulness, stubbornness, and general skin-of-your-teeth sheer bloody-minded optimism damn it. For use when feeling in need of a little musical encouragement due to *gestures generally at the state of the world at present* current events. There will be singing: about the dark times. [this is a continual wip]
AFTER ALL - Garnet Rogers
my heart grows brave and the world to me is a good world after all
TURNING TOWARD THE MORNING - Bok, Muir, & Trickett
i would tell you one more time: the world is always turning toward the morning
GOING UP THE MOUNTAIN - Si Kahn
all of us have hearts, the colour of the fire
CELEBRATION - David Mallett
we can change the situation / tell me what you're gonna do
IF THERE'S A FIRE IN YOUR HEART - Grace Petrie
every fire in the world started from one spark; so take the fire in all our hearts
SINGING THROUGH THE HARD TIMES - Dan Schatz
reach out to each other & raise a song together & let our voices carry us through
HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING - Bok, Muir, & Trickett
above the tumult and the strife, i hear the music ringing
TOMORROW IS A HIGHWAY - Pete Seeger
to travel onward to a better year; where love is, and there will be no fear
WE THE PEOPLE - Schooner Fare
it's time to hear the voices that have risen once again
BATTLE HYMN FOR AN ARMY OF LOVERS - Crys Matthews
i was born full of love & hope and when i die that's how i'll depart
WHEN THE SHIP COMES IN - Peter, Paul, & Mary
and the sun will respect every face on the deck the hour that the ship comes in
STORM TO WEATHER - Grace Petrie
i am hanging my tomorrows on the bones of yesterday
SHOW ME LOVE - Hundred Waters
keep me away from apathy while i am still awake
HOPE LINGERS ON - Low Lily
i will not hate and i will not fear; in our darkest hour, hope lingers here
WHEN I'M GONE - Phil Ochs
won't be asked to do my share, when I'm gone; so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here
WITCH HAZEL - Tom Gala
i tell my heart be strong like the witch hazel flower & you will not be injured by this dark & troubled time
WHAT MUST BE DONE - Brother Sun
they see the day beyond the horizon and they do what must be done
KICK OUT THE WINDOWS - Parsonsfield
there to dye our lives a different shade and grasp at every ray of sun
SILVER LINING - Kacey Musgraves
if you're ever gonna find a four leaf clover, you gotta get a little dirt on your hands
BY WAY OF SORROW - Cry Cry Cry
all the nights that joy has slept will awake to days of laughter
RESILIENT - Rising Appalachia
what are you gonna do about it when the world comes undone?
EAST SIDE WEST SIDE - The Mammals
let's agree on something and make a better day
YOUR DAUGHTERS AND YOUR SONS - The Duhks
for you sowed the seeds of freedom in your daughters and your sons
KISS THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL - Martyn Joseph
i want to kiss the world beautiful- i have no name for this desire
A DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE SONG - Dick Gaughan
i'll keep trying to make people happy, i'll keep trying in the best way i know how
MAKE THE PLANET EARTH GREAT AGAIN - DAVID ROVICS
make housing, food, & health care basic human rights; around the world, for everyone is how we'd set our sights
LET YOURSELF - Martyn Joseph
i need you brave, i want you brave, i need you strong to sing along
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN - Crosby, Stills, & Nash
and feed them on your dreams, the one they picks, the one you'll know by
NO HOPERS, JOKERS, & ROGUES - Port Isaac Fisherman's Friends
let's find out where it goes; it might be a ladder to the stars, who knows?
OPEN THE DOOR - The Mammals
we're so imperfect, oh but we go on working & holding out for more
CROWDED TABLE - The Highwomen
if we want a garden we're gonna have to sow the seed
TOMORROW'S GOING TO BE A BETTER DAY - Billy Bragg
take it from someone who knows the glass' half full / we're gonna make it that way
WHAT LIGHT - Wilco
if you feel like singing a song & you want other people to sing along, just sing what you feel
BE MORE KIND - Frank Turner
how this ends, no one knows / be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind
GARDEN SONG - David Mallett
pulling weeds, picking stones; we are made of dreams and bones
HOPE DIES LAST - John McCutcheon
we're not the first, not the last, ever holding fast / we are more than we seem
SPIRIT SONG - Bill Staines
the sun's gonna shine on a golden shore, oh, people don't you weep
THE TIME FOR FLOWERS - Emily Scott Robinson
tell me what's the point in planting pretty things / promise to remember that your fate's bound up in mine
QUITE EARLY MORNING - Gaslight Tinkers
through all this world of joy and sorrow, we still can have singing tomorrow
LIGHT OF A CLEAR BLUE MORNING - The Wailin' Jennys
it's been a long hard fight but i can see a brand new day a dawning