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Friend Michael Mandeville
Author of "Return of the Phoenix" Trilogy, a three parter,
verifying many of Edgar Cayce's Earth Change prophecies
and more
Scientist, Teacher of Meditations, with his new book and tapes out, called
"Sacred Initiations". Teacher of a Better Way to see the All in All
A Real Funny Guy,
Somewhere in the Hills of Arizona
Rain Song
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Thank you O Father
Thank you O Mother
Thank you Creator
Of heaven and earth and sky
Of heaven and earth and sky and rain
Bring the rains
Bring the rains
Bring the rains
Bring the rains
To every place there is drought
In need of plenty water
Send the rains
Turn this desert land into an oasis
Brings the rains
From the ocean coasts of California
Bring the rains
To the deserts of North America
Send the rains
Cross the Valleys and High Sierras
Bring the rains
High into the Rocky Mountains
Send the rains
To Nevada and Utah
Bring the rains
Up into Mogollon Rim
Sendthe rains
Bring the rains
Bring the rains
Rainmaker make the rains
Rainmaker send the rains we pray
To the Heartland Plains
Bring the rains
Through Wyoming and Colorado
Send the rains
To the Mesas of New Mexico
Bring the rains
Bring the rains
Bring the rains
Bring the rain
Thank you O Father
Thank you O Mother
Thank you Creator
Of heaven and earth and sky and rain
Of heaven and earth and sky and rain
Bring the rain!
To every place there is a drought
In need of plenty water
Send the rains
Thank you O Father
Thank you O Mother
Thank you Creator
Of heaven and earth and sky and rain
Of heaven and earth and sky and rain
Copyright July 10, 2002 Pam Wiseman
All Rights Reserved
recorded on the New Moon
Guitar&Voice: Pam Wiseman
recorded in mp3
Music, and Lyric arrangments by Pam Wiseman
Sound Effects& Recording by Ben Silverman
Arranged and Conducted
by Pam Wiseman
Lyrics by Pam Wiseman and Michael Wells Mandeville
This song began even before I headed out to Arizona
in May 2002-
I had been inspired to sing/compose the
Native American/Celtic humming-chant about a year ago and just kept singing it to myself with my guitar over the months
leading up to my visit to Arizona.
I sang it again just before my desert trip. After seeing the droughted conditions all over Utah and Arizona in the month of May from the 12th to 30th, a song was forming within me to make a rain prayer song.
I mentioned it to Cornplanter while
we were driving in the van visiting
the Sedona area on our way back to Annette and Joey's.
I wanted someone to sing/dance with me for
the rains to come and said so numerous times.
The day I left Black Canjon City from Michael's home,
the 30th of May, during my drive out of Arizona and into Utah I
composed the song-Rain Song-singing it while driving through all the parched lands- When I returned to N Idaho I put the words on
paper and posted it on the
Phoenix-Quest List to share.
I had also sat down and put more of the melody to the words.
Michael made mention he wanted to use the "poem'-
well, it was not a poem, but a song already created.
I said he could use it, but it had music to it.
He wanted to use it as part of a prayer mantra for the Circle of Love group he had formed to pray for the drought to end, for rains and for the sunspot count to go down, including sending love into all the earth for healing everywhere.
I decided then to "work with him" on it and accomodate his lyrics he had added and changed but making certain to keep those I thought would be better sounding in the arrangement of the song which I had originally composed with the lyrics. What you see is the completed RainSong, now recorded in MP3 format and soon to be out on cd as a single.
Thank you Michael, for contributing to the lyrics of the song.
The added touch was several days before doing the recording in
the studio, just before sleep, I got a hearing vision- of which I have received before in composing music-since a child, and this one was of many Native brothers chanting together, inviting me into their rain chant- this went on for about an hour and with that added, the humming/chant begun many moons ago together with the recent hearing-vision added to the song, gave me the whole soul of the prayer song. Although I might add here- I am Celtic/Hebrew and Cherokee- and all of these real elements are within all the songs I have written. And I don't try to divide them-
they are blended-like I am.
It began as a simple prayer of thanks and ends with a simple prayer of thanks. I hope you make it your prayer too. This song would have never been created without ALL the elements coming into play- and this my friends, is the story of THIS song~
Thanks to Ben Silverman who in his home recording studio took me in to record this in such short notice- my first song recorded after writing over eighty songs to date- I think I will keep him busy for awhile to record some more!
~Smile~
Our Coming Out Party/Phoenix Quest Fellowship
Phoenix-Quest Fellowship May 2002
Annette and Joey's Log Cabin
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