Jeremiah ( Video-Lyrics )

Buffy Sainte-Marie Jeremiah From album MOONSHOT

Jeramiah comes from the philosophy degree side of Buffy. It calls for positive faith and action in spite of perceived injustice. The third verse is inspired, like her Cradleboard Teaching Project work, on Making It Better. Like turning lemons into lemonade.

Jeramiah Jeramiah
Honey won't you please get up and light the fire
Jeramee-oh Jeramee-oh
It's so cold and dark down here the folks can't see oh

Will the meeting come to order to discuss
just exactly what the hell is gonna become of us

Sweet Melinda Sweet Melinda
She didn't know the price until she walked right in there
Now they've got her Now they've got her
Banging on her head with everything they've taught her

She's very hip but she is not too very cool
Big uniform he flipped her over with a backwards golden rule

Some will tell you Some will tell you
Tell you what you really want ain't on the menu
Don't believe them Don't believe them
Cook it up yourself and then prepare to Serve them

Dance Dance to the music in the skies
Guess which one we are and whether we live before we die.

Ain't No Time For The Worrying Blues: Video - Lyrics

"Ain't No Time For The Worrying Blues" written by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Recorded in 1975 but not released until 1976.
Originally recorded in 1975 and taken from "Sweet America" released February 1976. Sweet America was the twelfth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her last before retiring from music to work on Sesame Street and in education. The album was dedicated to the American Indian Movement.

"There ain't no time for worrying blues
It's ragidy worlds, It's a lifetime cruise!
It's a little tin time that we get to spend
So start it all over again

My name it ain't nothing and I come from mars
and I love macaroni and I love the stars!
I love to float and I love to fly
and I love to see you smile!"

Buffy Sainte-Marie at the Napa Valley Opera House Oct 6/11

Buffy Sainte-Marie at the Napa Valley Opera House Oct 6/11

About the Ticket Supplier: Napa Valley Opera House

Description & Background of Organization:

Thursday, October 6, 8pm
$35 / $40
Doors open at 7pm; come early and enjoy wine, beer & snacks on sale in the Cafe Theatre
Oct 6/11 - Napa Valley Opera House - 1030 Main Street; Napa, CA; 94559

The concert will feature songs from her recently released "Pathfinder: Buried Treasures" CD, as well as new songs from the "Running for the Drum" CD including No No Keshagesh, Blue Sunday, and Cho Cho Fire, and those of her classics most requested by fans - Universal Soldier, Up Where We Belong, Until It's Time for You to Go, Spin & Spin, Cod'ine, Piney Wood Hills, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Starwalker and lots of others.

The Napa Valley Opera House is a historic 500 seat theatre located in the heart of Napa. NVOH presents a diverse array of performing arts including musical theatre, plays, jazz, blues, world and pop music, comedy and family programming.

The Napa Valley Opera House was built in 1879 as one of the first "respectable" venues west of the Mississippi River. For the latter half of the 19th century, the Napa Valley Opera House was the cultural center for the region, until the decline of vaudeville and other pressures forced it to go dark in 1914.

The house was nearly destroyed until a few Napa Valley Opera House devotees spared it from the wrecking ball in the early 1970s.

For the last 15 years, the NVOH has been slowly restoring itself for a new future through a series of fund-raising challenges, construction activities and visionary plans. The house came back to life in June 2002 with the opening of the Cafe Theatre; its historic main hall reopened in late summer, 2003, in all of its original splendor.

For more information, visit the website for Napa Valley Opera House.

The Aboriginal People's Choice Awards

The Aboriginal People's Choice Awards is a yearly event that highlights the best new music from Canada's Aboriginal Peoples. Winners are selected by public vote. Past winners have included musicians like Buffy Sainte-Marie and Alberta's Shane Yellowbird.

This year's awards take place over two days, Nov. 3 and 4. The second night will be broadcast nationally on the Aboriginal People's Television Network.

Fans can register to participate in voting by visiting http://aboriginalpeopleschoice.com/home/

To vote Buffy's back-up band Bruthers of Different Muthers for BEST GROUP & BEST ROCK CD at this years APCMA's... Please visite and vote

House Carpenter: Video-Lyrics

"House Carpenter" From Album "Little Wheel Spin and Spin"

"Well met, well met," said an old true love
"Well met, well met," said he
"I have just returned from the salt, salt sea
And it's all for the love of thee"

Come in, come in, my own true love
And have a seat with me
For It's been three-fourths of a long long year
Since together we have been

"I'll not come in! And i'll not sit down!"
"I haven't but a moment's time"
"But i hear you're married to a house carpenter"
"And you're love will never be mine"
"And i could have married a king's daughter there!"
"So free, she was with me"
"But i forshook all the crowns and gold"
"And it's all for the love of thee..."

Well, if you could have married
I'm sure you are to blame
And i have married with a house carpenter
"And i'm sure he's a fine young man"

"Well will you forsake your house carpenter "
"And come away with me"
"I'll take you down where the grass grows green"
"Down down by the sweet country"

Then she picked up a darlin' little babe
And kisses, she gave it three
Saying, "Stay right here, my own little dear,
And keep your father company"

Now they hadn't been on ship
But a boat two weeks
I'm sure it was not free
When she espied his clothin foot
And began to weep most bitterly

"Are you weepin for your house, your land
Or are you weepin for your store
Or are you weepin' for your house carpenter
Whose face you'll never see anymore?"

I am not weepin for my house and land
And i am not weepin for my store
And this time i'm weepin for my soul, soul dear
For whose purity i'll never see no more

Now they hadn't been on ship but about three weeks
I'm sure it was not more
When he stomped his foot
And down she sank
And sank to rise no more

"Well met, well met, my old true love"
"Well met, well met," cried he
"And i've just returned to the salt salt sea"
"And it's all for the love of thee"

Lay It Down: Video-lyrics

Lay It Down From Album MoonShot

Traveling down our different road
Trying hard to leave the load
We can take it there but we can't let go
it's so hard to lay it down

Back in edan we were tried
We found ourselves dissatisfied
Seeking wisdom we denied
Now we yearn to lay it down

Lay it down, brother
Lay it down on them
It's so hard to lay it down

Hide in me, confide in me
Don't you think it's time to be
Everything we tried to be
You and me should lay it down

Speak to me, your chained
There's no need for playin' games
After all, we're all the same
Tryin' hard to lay it down

Lay it down, sister
Lay it down
It's so hard to lay it down

Wish my words could make it well
Wish that i could break the spell
Wake the world from its dream of hell
And find a way to lay it down

Burdened by the things I leanred
And burdened from-- i'm too concerened
Nontheless, i confess
I yearn to find a way to lay it down

Lay it down, brother
Lay it down
it's so hard to lay it down

Lay it down sister,
Lay it down!
It's so hard to lay it down

You know how to turn on those lights: Video-Lyrics

You know how to turn on those lights From Album "Moonshot"

You know how to turn on these lights, don't you baby?
you know how to turn on those lights, don't you baby?
You know every switch and button in the house, don't you baby?
You know every trick in the floor, don't you baby?
You know every trick in the floor, don't you baby?
You know every trick and every lesson in the plan
Don't you baby?

in my wildiest dreams you always know me
Show me baby
Show me you can turn on those lights
show me baby
Show me you can turn on those lights
Show me baby
Show me you know every switch and button in the house
Hold me baby
Hold me baby

Show me you can turn on these lights
show me baby
Show me you can turn on those lights
Show me baby
Show me you know every switch and button in the house
Yeah, hold me baby
hold me baby

Now You've Been Gone for a Long Time: Video-Lyrics

"Now You've Been Gone for a Long Time"
From Album "She Used To Wanna Be a Ballerina"

Now you've been gone for a long time,
Run off with my heart into the night,
Once I'd have thought that you'd never let me go,
Now I'm alone after all.
I've sat for hours at my table
Poring over maps about our stars.
All they would say is that you were always here,
Now like a ghost you've disapeared.
Strange how you came like a reed up from the sea
Up from the blood in my veins
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. . .
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
Now that the cold and the silence
That you left behind you are my friends.
I wonder why you padlocked up my heart
if you never meant to return.
Now you've been gone for a long time,
Run off with my heart into the night,
Once I'd have thought that you'd never let me go,
Now I'm alone after all.

Nominate your favourite artist for a GG's Performing Arts Award

Canadians are being encouraged to nominated their favourite homegrown performing artists for the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA).

The awards are presented for lifetime artistic achievement in all branches of performing arts, including broadcasting, classical music, dance, film, popular music and theatre.

All nominations will be reviewed by a jury of experts in each discipline, who will make recommendations of the top candidates to the GGPAA board of directors. The laureates will be announced in the spring.

The six chosen for lifetime artistic achievement, and one for the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, will receive their awards in Ottawa in May 2012.

Past recipients include Bryan Adams, Robert Lepage, Karen Kain, William Shatner, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Nominations can be made by submitting a letter of support and a short biography of the artist online at ggpaa.ca/en/nomination until Sept. 23.

How do I make a nomination?

A complete nomination must be submitted to the Foundation on or before the deadline by mail, email or fax. If submitting your nomination by email, please forward all required documents as attachments with your cover message by the deadline date.

A complete nomination package consists of three parts:

1. The nomination form. You must fully complete the proper nomination form and include it in your package. If you do not have the phone number for the nominee, please leave the line blank. The nomination form also includes a declaration confirming that both the nominator and nominee meet the eligibility criteria and that the information contained in the nomination form is accurate.

2. The supporting letter. This is a very important document. A well-written, impassioned letter (maximum two pages) outlining the merits of the work of the artist or volunteer, their contribution to Canada and the effect they have had on you personally can be very influential during consideration. Sample letter.

3. The biography. The biography should touch on the greatest highlights of the artist's or volunteer's career, their awards and accolades. Sample biography.

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Nomination Form for Lifetime Artistic Achievement Awards
Nomination Form for Ramon John Hnatyshyn Awards

Please print the appropriate nomination form and submit it to the Foundation office by mail, email or fax by the deadline date. If submitting your nomination by email, please forward all required documents as attachments with your cover message.

Moratorium : Video-Lyrics

Buffy Sainte-Marie "Moratorium" Lyrics
From Album "She Used To Wanna Be a Ballerina"

Captain Carter came home
he'd been fighting the war
and i guessed he thought he'd
return as a hero and more
And he walked down the street
Saw the old home town
and he saw how it is around HERE now
well captain carter had to call
far too many girls
for a date that night
see, all the girls had gone out
with all their long-haird boys...
Captain carter he cried,
"...well what the HELL have i been fighting for?!"
Oh, soldier, it's for you
We wanna bring you home
We wanna hold you in our arms
come back, and keep us warm!
He had seen many stine
had been drafted and gone
he'd been told that only cowards
would say, "no!"
He came home and called
some old friends
they resisted the draft
and they both were in prision
and their wives and their kids
were all skinny and havin' a bath time!
And PFC stine... he remembered the men
called political prisoners
You know where and when
And he learned that the lines
are tapped all the time, now
and he's wondering if maybe
his bravery's needed at HOME now!
Yes, soldier, we're afraid
We're not just bein' fools
We're gased and beatin... here at HOME!
We've got to change the rules!
Carter thomas Mchan
as a three-year marine
someone told him he better join up
it would make him a man
he came home and to the park he went
and he sat down on a bench
and a gumbery girl told him,
He'd been a man all along
and he looked at the sign...
that she carried in her hand...
It said, "FUCK the war and bring our brothers home!!!"
And Carter Mchan, he looks
into her eyes...
and i beleive that he's
begun to understand now
Oh, soldier, it's for you
we wanna bring you home
we need you to support us HERE
come back and lend an arm
Hey, bring our brothers home
Hey, bring our brothers home
Hey, bring our brothers HOME!!
Hey, bring our brothers HOME!!
Hey, bring our brothers home...

Smack Water Jack: Video-Lyrics

"Smack Water Jack" from Album "She Used To Wanna Be a Ballerina"

Smackwater Jack, he bought a shotgun
'Cause he was in the mood for a little confrontation
He didn't think about the noose
He just let it all hang loose
He couldn't take no more abuse so he shot down the congregation
You can't talk to a man with a shotgun in his hand
With a shotgun in his hand

Now Big Jim the chief stood for law and order
He called for the men to surround the border
And from his bulldog mouth
As the pose headed south
Came a cry, "we got the right to clean up the streets for our wives and our daughters"
You can't talk to a man when he don't wanna understand
And he don't wanna understand

The account of the capture wasn't in the papers
But you know they hung old Smack right then and there instead of later
And the people were quite pleased
That the outlaw had been seized
And on the whole it was a very good year for the undertaker
You can't talk to a man when he don't wanna understand
When he don't wanna understand

Readers recommend: songs about September – results

September marks the end of the summer, the start of the school term, and a definite return to "normality" after the craziness of the summer. For journalists, it often means the return of some real news (as opposed to fluffy August stories such as, er, urban riots).

September is also the name of the opening track on David Sylvian's 1987 album Secrets of the Beehive, a sparse piano lament warmed by Ryuichi Sakamoto's string arrangement. Its laudable brevity underlines the lyric's subject matter: time's passing. The end of summer comes as something of a relief: "We say that we're in love / while secretly wishing for rain."

Johnnie "Philosopher of Soul" Taylor sings about time passing, counting the days until he is reunited with his love in It's September, a 1974 Stax workout. The turning of the seasons, the end of the holidays ... September's a mood. And Septiembre No Está Tan Lejos captures it. Thanks to RR regular Makinavaja for alerting us to Nadadora's "melancholy, dreamy electro-pop from Galicia".

But let's not get too caught up in autumnal wistfulness. Earth, Wind & Fire's September catches Maurice White and the boys in their pomp, piling on the hooks without breaking a sweat while the rest of the world chugs round the discotheque trying to catch up.

The Field Mice are the antithesis of Earth, Wind & Fire. They were lynchpins of Sarah Records, the label that helped turn indie from a description of economic circumstances into a musical genre. Backwards guitars, chiming 12-strings, harmonies, suspended chords: all employed to winsome effect by the Field Mice on 1991's September's Not So Far Away.

Big Star, a key influence on indie, are most often celebrated for their fascinating, disturbing third album. But September Girls attains perfection. The cleanliness of the guitar sound and the suggestion of innocence in Alex Chilton's voice are set against the experience of a love gone wrong, hinted at in the lyrics. It has been described as Beatlesque power-pop – yet Big Star's loose performance could only have been made by a band steeped in southern soul.

Revered jazz pianist Bill Evans's shot at commercial success, the urgent and optimistic Sweet September, didn't hit storm the charts. Was it artistically worthwhile? I think so: his economical style cuts through that early-60s easy-listening pop like a precision tool.

September once meant harvest time to the English. Yet it's easy for modern urbanites to lose touch with the changes of the seasons. And who better to remind us of our roots than Glasgow's Trembling Bells, whose September Is the Month of Death treads a stately procession into autumn, as if imposing order on nature.

But the month of September, and its association with death, has an altogether different connotation in the 21st century. Saul Williams's September 12th is a passionate appeal for peace, justice and sanity. He insists the horror of 9/11 should not excuse a future of war.

September is the month of death for Marianne Faithfull, too. Producer and co-writer Angelo Badalamenti gives Flaming September the Twin Peaks treatment, a sinister cinematic backdrop for Faithfull's elegy to her late lover Howard Tose.

But it's a month of life, too. In Sweet September Morning, from her 1971 album She Used to Wanna be a Ballerina, featuring Ry Cooder, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Buffy Sainte-Marie looks back fondly on September as the month she met a guru-like lover. And I was smitten by My Morning Jacket's Old September Blues as soon as I heard the quotation in the intro from Santo & Johnny's immortal Sleep Walk. The song's a reminder of the pleasures of hunkering down as the weather cools and the nights draw in.

Article originally published at The Guardian

Getting Started: Video-Lyrics

"Getting Started" from Album "Coincidence and Likely Stories"

Oo down Tipi Town
Hoping around
Seeking inspiration
I been out here on the edge of space
in the human race
I guess I'd gotten lonely but

That's okay
Now it's not the way it should be but
That's okay
I know it's not the way it could be and
That's okay
It's pretty good for kindergarten and
That's okay
Come on, we're only getting started

Thumb-hand human band
can understand
out among the far locations that the
Music's Heaven-sent we can
fly on instruments
beyond our isolation and

That's okay
No it's not the way it should be but
That's okay
Here and now it's how it is and
That's okay
It's pretty good for kindergarten and
That's okay
Come on, We're only getting started

Womb-world paradigm
Understand in time
It's a sweet investigation
We're learning rope by rope
Climbing hope by hope
in every combination and

That's okay
No it's not the way it should be but
That's okay
It's wild and it's unique and
That's okay
Love's the magic number and
That's okay
Come on, We're only getting started.

Bells: Video-Lyrics

"Bells" from Album "She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina"

I’m writing this to say goodbye
To what you never should reply
That of all the words and demons that you leave
I stand entirely below
That is to say your loving me
Would be your only crime.

And isn’t it a pity
You can see your duty clearly
In the midst of some great city
In the midst of all this love

Many men have loved the bells
You fastened to the rein same as in take this longing
And everyone who wanted you
Found what she would always want again.

And I’d have been the dust for you
And I’d have been the grass for you
But you tell me with your beauty
You can see your duty clearly
In the midst of New York City
In the midst of all my love.

The body like a search light
And the prison of my need
Oh, I need to share your loneliness
And I demand your greed.
And everything depends upon
How near you sleep to me.
And isn’t it a pity
You can see your duty clearly
In the midst of New York City
In the midst of all our love.

I will be writing this
When you are so very young again
That the forests that you burned away,
And then sail away, are truly, truly gone.
I will be waiting
Where a star (fishes: touches or kisses?) your hair
And the jewels for your shoulders
Fall through the walls of sand
Fall through the walls of sand

Sweet September Morning: Video-Lyrics

Sweet September Morning from Album " She Used To Wanna Be a Ballerina"

He finds them by the roadside
And he gives them his hands
And he breaks his love before them
And he feeds

and he knows what he knows
Like the trees do
And he grows when he grows
When he needs you to

Oh, and oh, Sweet September morning
When i found him in my life
In my life

And he tells you what his guiding star
And then he starts his journey
To the center of the center
of your dreaming

And he knows what he knows
like the trees do
So you go where he goes
When he needs you to

oh, and oh, Sweet September morning
When i found him in my life
In my heart

There is a place that he can take you
he's the only who can
And you'll the only one who'll ever light his way there

And he knows what he knows
like the trees do
And you'll go where he goes
When he needs you too

Oh, and oh! Sweet September morning
Where i found him in my heart
In my heart
In my heart...

Globalquerque- Performances

Globalquerque!

The following artists will be performing at the National Hispanic Cultural Center for ¡Globalquerque! 2011. Performances will take place on three stages, all located at the NHCC (1701 4th St SW, at Avenida César Chávez). Enjoy the intimate courtyard setting of the Fountain Courtyard, the state of the art 692-seat Albuquerque Journal Theatre and dance outside on the Plaza Mayor.

Performances start at 6 PM and the Global Village will be open into the night. There will also be FREE day programming on Saturday for families and adults, including workshops on music and folklore, crafts, and live performances.

Saturday September 17:
Burkina Electric (Burkina Faso)
DePedro (Spain)
Frigg (Finland/Norway)
Gaida (Syria)
Frank McCulloch y Sus Amigos (New Mexico)
La Excelencia (New York)
Nawal (Comoros)
Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree)
Te Vaka (New Zealand/South Pacific)
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole (Louisiana)

More Info http://www.globalquerque.com/

Disinformation Video-Lyrics

"Disinformation" From Album "Coincidence and likely stories"

They dog your trail like a pack of lies
They whine at night when the lights are out
You toss and turn, you pitch and roll
Disinformation, you spin it like a silkworm
Just when I need another point of view
Here you come from nowhere, from over the ways
I stand amazed, I see your greatest hits
They blow back down the chimney into everyone's eyes
Creative thinking in the first degree
You're a three-way mirror of a one-way world
It's a perverse company you work for
They build the past, it just can't last
It's obsolete by design
They send you out rerouting history
To make the same old mistakes in a brand new way
Come out from under cover
Ollie Ollie in free
Come out, come out wherever you are
And virgin places don't mean a thing
To people who never bring their hearts along
And fools like them never fall at all
They're tough as sin, let nobody in
They turn and spin your wheels and nobody wins
Coincidence and likely stories
They dog your trail like a pack of lies
They whine at night when the lights are out
You toss and turn, you pitch and roll
Disinformation, you spin it like a silkworm

The Priests of the Golden Bull: Video-Lyrics

Note: the Windego monster to Cree people is like the Vampire is in Europe; it's a metaphor for mindless greed that cannibalizes indiscriminately for the satisfaction of only itself.

Who brought the bomb wrapped in business cards
and stained with steak?
Who hires a maid to wash his money?
Who keeps politicians on the take?
Who puts outspoken third-worlders in jail just to shut
them down?
Oh the lies vary from place to place but the truth is
still the same, even in this town

Their tongues are silver forks
There's a lack of wisdom,
you can hear it on their breath
Windego

Third Worlders see it first: the dynamite, the dozers,
the cancer and the acid rain
The corporate caterpillars come into our backyards
and turn the world to pocket change
Reservations are the nuclear frontline;
uranium poisoning kills
We're starving in a handful of gluttons
We're drowning in their gravy spills

Money junkies all over the world
trample us on their way to the bank
They run in every race
Windego

It's delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull
They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line
Their minds rustle with million dollar bills

You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket
and Gold burns a hole in your soul
Well, Uranium burns a hole in forever
It just gets out of control

There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile
He raised a crooked sixpence to hide a crooked style
He won a crooked race and smiled a crooked smile
Windego

Their tongues are silver forks
There's a lack of wisdom, you can hear it on their
breath
Windego.

Little Wheel Spin and Spin Video-lyrics

Little Wheel Spin and Spin

Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

1. Merry Christmas Jingle Bells
Christ is born and the devil's in hell
hearts they shrink Pockets swell
Everybody know and nobody tell

Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

2. Oh the sins of Caesar's men
cry the pious citizens
who petty thieve the 5 & 10s
and the big wheels turn around and around

Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

3. Blame the angels, blame the fates,
Blame the Jews or your sister Kate
Teach your children how to hate
and the big wheels turn around and around

Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

4. Turn your back on weeds you've hoed
silly sinful seeds you've sowed
Add your straw to the camel's load
Pray like hell when your world explode

Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

5. Swing your girl fiddler say
Later on the piper pay
Do see do, swing and sway
Dead will dance on judgement day

Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)