A Seed Library song Words and music: Glasgow seed community, arr. Jane Lewis This song emerged from a songwriting workshop which I facilitated together with Glasgow Seed Library in autumn 2024. Intro chorus Tune A Sow, tend, gather, return (x4) (round in 4 parts 2x) Tune B (after part 1 of the round has sung […]
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Neighbouring Orchard Wassail
By the Neighbouring Orchard community and friends, arr. Jane Lewis This song emerged from two songwriting workshops that I facilitated as part of Art Walk Porty Neighbouring Orchard Project in the autumn of 2025 and was first sung at the Neighbouring Orchard Walking Wassail on 24th January 2026. Intro: Blossom to blossom, tree to tree […]
Plant Baby Plant
Words: from Robin Wall Kimmerer and the Plant, Baby Plant grassroots movement Music: Jane Lewis Plant, Baby, Plant We’re gonna Plant, Baby, Plant We reciprocate the gifts of the land by gifts of our care We plant, protect, restore and so much more No more destruction! Score All parts: Tune: High: Low: Mid: Drill, Baby, […]
Wassail the Worm
2024 A Transforming the soil enriching the earth, Slow and steady, slow and steady, Underground farmers working below, Helping the plants to grow Wassail the worm (x2), wassail the wassail the worm Recycling the leaves and draining the land, Slow and steady, slow and steady, Tunnelling down right into the ground, Moving without a sound […]
Can You Catch a Falling Oak Leaf
Can you, can you, can you, can you? Can you catch a falling oak leaf As it circles round and round and round on the wind? Can you catch, can you catch the moment? – oh Can you catch a falling oak leaf_score As a 3-part round:
Dabberlocks Kelp
For the Edinburgh Shoreline 100 Species Project Mid: Dabber, dabberlocks, dabberlocks kelp (x4) Low: Wing kelp, honeyware, edible fungus, bladderlocks, dabberlocks see my edible wings! Murlins, ripini High: As the tide rolls in I hold fast on the rocky shore in the laminaria belt All parts: Mid: Low: High: Music score: Dabberlocks Kelp Bring the […]
Home
Words: Based on the poem ‘Home’ by Warsan Shire. In protest at the Illegal and Immoral Immigration Bill 2023 No-one puts their children on a boat unless the water is safer than the land (x2) No-one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark, You only run for the border when you see […]
Singing the Lost Words into Life
A community songbook, coming in Spring 2023. Words & music written by Jane Lewis & Penny Stone, with illustrations by Lizzie Ashworth. To register your interest, please fill in the form below, and we will email you when the book is ready to order.
Climate Reparations
Music: Jane Lewis Words: Based on the writings of and conversations with Lumumba Di-Aping, Sudanese diplomat, chief negotiator for the G77 group of developing nations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Also negotiating at COP27. Intro Bass and tenor Climate reparations (x3) Pay back now! Climate reparations (x3) Justice now! […]
Give Thanks to the Wood Wide Web: A Wassail Waltz for the Fungi
Jane Lewis 2022 With thanks to Merlin Sheldrake Mycelial networks under my feet, Give thanks to the wood wide web Sustaining all life and the apples we eat, Give thanks to the wood wide web So waltz with the hyphae, tip and strand, Give thanks to the wood wide web Unmakers and makers of the […]