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beaver prayer

by Ian Carrick

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This song is for the beavers. Teaching tracks to the sing-along are here: soundcloud.com/iancarrick/sets/beaver-prayer-sing-along

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I sit by that old western bridge
Where I can see you've now downed this tree
I can see now you're worrying all the local landowners
Yea you are

You make us feel useless
While you beautify the valleys
Making havens of green in the night
While we were looking for you

Oregon, that final frontier
We came from way out east to find you
And stack your pelts in our ships
Meanwhile we straightened out the rivers
Yea we did

And I hear we loved the fat
Of the tail that we roasted
While we were looking for you

Nobody told me you share your dens
With muskrats and mouses
In the winter when you store green food
You bring in it to share
Yea, you do

When I make my home can I make it for others
When I make my home can I make it for others

Flowing flowing water water
Flowing flowing water water

Slow the rivers down
Slow the rivers down

A wetland altar, now
A wetland altar, now

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released October 1, 2021

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Ian Carrick Bend, Oregon

Ian is a community-oriented songwriter, songleader and music teacher based in his hometown of Bend, OR.

Ian sings on the ancestral lands of the Paiute, Wasco and Warm Springs people and is open to learning what right relationship looks like.

As a light-skinned banjoist, Ian tithes monthly to the Black Banjo Reclamation Project
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