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A Blessing for this Place

© Becky Reardon 2016 | Recorded on Here

A hymn of blessing for places we have created and/or gathered in together.

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A Raveling Dance

© Becky Reardon 2005 | Recorded on Inside the Outside

A waltz-time musing on transformation.

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Dance on the Porch All Day

© Becky Reardon 2016 | Recorded on Here

A song celebrating our happiness when a dark cloud has passed over.

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Dancing to the Dark

© Becky Reardon 2003 | Recorded on Songs for a Walk

A round celebrating the days around Winter Solstice.

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Don’t Give Up

© Becky Reardon 1998 | Recorded on Songs for a Walk

This jazzy round gives us courage to keep flowing like a river.

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Don’t Miss This

© Becky Reardon 1998 | Recorded on Follow the Motion

This jazzy tune encourages us to stay in the present moment.

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Drena’s Mountain Song

© Becky Reardon 2009 | Recorded on Inside the Outside

Based on Melanie DeMore’s writing, this round is about keeping vigil with a loved one who is dying.

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Eve’s Longing

© Becky Reardon 2011 | Recorded on Shift

A ballad of longing to return to the Garden, to a time when humans weren’t separated from other beings.

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Famous

© Becky Reardon 2008 | Recorded on Inside the Outside

Based on Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem of the same name, this round has a Latin beat.

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Follow the Motion

© Becky Reardon 1997 | Recorded on Follow the Motion

A round with complex syncopation exploring what to do when there are no signs pointing the way.

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Give it Away

© Becky Reardon 1997 | Recorded on Songs for a Walk

A round that celebrates the generosity of the natural world.

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I Say Yes

© Becky Reardon 2018 | Recorded on Here

This song has an R&B feel and an upbeat message about moving forward during difficult times.

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In Fives

© Becky Reardon 2008 | Recorded on Inside the Outside

This round swings in 5/4 time.

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It’s a Hard Time for a Restless Woman

© Becky Reardon 2021 | New and Unreleased

A lament for our isolation during the Covid pandemic.

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Now Is

© Becky Reardon 1996 | Recorded on Here

Peaceful melody and lyrics to ground us in our bodies and the present moment.

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Old Woman Juniper

© Becky Reardon 2007 | Recorded on Inside the Outside

A song that compares the singer as she ages to an old juniper tree in the desert.

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River of Grace

© Becky Reardon 2012 | Recorded on Shift

A song about being lifted by grace from our everyday worries and fears, and from thinking we know where we are going.

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Seleyaseyabo

© Becky Reardon 1999 | Recorded on Follow the Motion

An 8-part rollercoaster of a round, with vocables instead of lyrics.

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Take Heart, Take Part

© Becky Reardon 2019 | Recorded on Here

This part-song is based on Pete’s Seeger’s affirmation that participation will save the human race.

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Tarantulas

© Becky Reardon 2005 | Recorded on Natural Rhythms

A comedic march in round-form describing the mating season of tarantulas.

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That Kinda Woman

© Becky Reardon 1998 | Recorded on Follow the Motion

A round dedicated to Kate Munger, founder of the Threshold Choirs.

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The Iguana Climbed the Mangrove Tree

© Becky Reardon 2012 | Recorded on Shift

This round tells the story of an iguana who falls asleep during a hot day and slips from the branch where he was resting.

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The Sticky Cocklebur

© Becky Reardon 2007 | Recorded on Shift

A jazzy fantasy on a cocklebur’s escape from the mesa via a little black dog’s ear.

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The Turtle Remembers

© Becky Reardon 1998 | Recorded on Inside the Outside

This dreamlike round invokes a return to the source.

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This Body

© Becky Reardon 2023 | Recorded on Songs for a Walk

A part song to center us in our own bodies and breathing.

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Walking in the Red Rock

© Becky Reardon 2003 | Recorded on Songs for a Walk

A round evoking a hot walk in the Utah red rock country,
searching for shade.

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Water

© Becky Reardon 2002 | Recorded on Shift

A round that meditates on the finite amount of water on earth.

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When the First Star Lights

© Becky Reardon 1998 | Recorded on Songs for a Walk

A song of one last moment of happiness before a farewell.

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Where is the Moon

© Becky Reardon 1994 | Recorded on Follow the Motion

Known widely as ‘the moon instructional song’, this song uses the three-part round form to follow the three phases of the moon: new, waxing, waning.

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Winter Solstice Round

© Becky Reardon 1995 | Recorded on Follow the Motion

A gentle lullaby to be sung at the dark of the year.

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A R C : Alarm, Resistance, Consolation

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Nature Songs & Rounds

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Here

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Shift

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Inside the Outside

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Songs for a Walk

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Follow the Motion

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Natural Rhythms

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Nature Songs & Rounds - Songbook

NATURE SONGS & ROUNDS FOR ALL AGES

Becky’s new songbook is here!

“Nature Songs and Rounds for All Ages” includes ten of Becky’s best-loved songs, vibrantly illustrated by art students at the Taos, NM Middle School. Songbook is sold in print form.

$12 – $15

Contact Becky to order past Songbooks.