There are many good songs being written and old songs being adapted for the climate movement. I keep the songs that I find useful in one notebook. I call it “A Climate Activists’ Songbook” , and it contains songs about specific issues, our connection to the Earth, and coming together in general. I sometimes share these songs in workshops and song swaps. (Check my events page for any upcoming workshops.) Because of copyright issues, I can’t publish other people’s songs, but here’s a list of songs and links to recordings or the artists’ websites.
Here I am at the UN Climate Summit in Paris, December 2015, with Jonathan, a new buddy from Shanghai, I’d just met because of the sign I made, which he is holding in this pic. (The sign was part of a project some Danish artists were doing.) We strolled the halls of the convention center singing climate songs together!
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Civil Rights Song
Answer the Call Deborah Silverstein
www.debobiz.com/songwriter/
Blue Boat Home Peter Mayer
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=C011US105D20131224&p=peter+mayer+blue+boat+home
Digging Us a Hole Melodeego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_b1yEy0sM
Do It Now Belgian Climate Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7V1qLLsn7M
www.singfortheclimate.com
Gentle Arms of Eden Dave Carter
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=C011US105D20131224&p=gentle+arms+of+eden
Grandchildren Chant South African song new words by Anne Goodwin
Holy Ground Linda J Koehler
I’ll Be There Si Kahn
https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qKtAM10dlM
Ise Oluwa Yoruba Christian song
http://www.voicesofafrica.net/2012/02/information-on-ishe-oluwa.html
Keep On Moving Forward Pat Humphries
http://emmasrevolution.com/
Keep It in the Ground Anne Goodwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LkYtxsH5jU
Leave It in the Ground Fred Small
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-3GNSyVhuE
Riding My Bike Lawrence Cole
http://songsforthegreatturning.net/building-community
Seed Pat Humphries/Sandy O
http://emmasrevolution.com/
Storm Keeps Coming On Goodwin
Sun and the Wind Pat Humphries/Sandy O
http://emmasrevolution.com/
The Peace of the Earth Guatemalan traditional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3QyEi1V3wI
The Tide is Rising Rabbi Shoshana Meira Freidman
rabbishoshana.com.
This Changes Everything Ben Grosscup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEPJjH2JPSE
This Pretty Planet Tom Chapin
Turning of the World Ruth Pelham
http://songsforthegreatturning.net/building-community/turning-of-the-world/
Under One Sky Ruth Pelham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBk–jQwDJU
We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting Bernice Johnson Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8h1DjzbC0
We Are the People Sue Kirkpatrick
http://songsforthegreatturning.net/building-community/we-are-the-people/
We Shall Come Together Singing Maggie Wheeler
http://songsforthegreatturning.net