~ You might remember me from my big hit way back in the day('74) "Midnight at the Oasis"~ 43 albums later, I spontaneously wrote a Pro- Vaccination song & thought I would share it with you in hopes that you could help spread the message far and wide!~Hopefully a candidate for your Pandemic Playlist!~(We are also hoping the CDC and/or all the other agencies that are trying to get people vaccinated might be able to use part of it for a public service announcement!)
~ I'm a big fan of your work and have been getting your new newsletter, and am deeply grateful for the way you continue to stand up for what is right and speak truth to power!~ God Bless You for everything you do!~ Please don't ever stop!~
"VACCINATED & I'M READY FOR LOVE" launching today worldwide!
As I drove away from receiving my second vaccination shot, I was immediately overwhelmed with an immense feeling of Liberation, Exhilaration, Lightness & Joy!~It was a beautiful Spring day, so I rolled back my sunroof to enjoy the ride, & before I knew it I spontaneously started singing ’Vaccinated & I'm Ready for Love’ at the top of my lungs all the way home! I sort of chuckled to myself & forgot about it, but the next day the refrain returned & I found myself singing it throughout the day! Realizing this was a pretty catchy refrain that wouldn't go away, I enlisted my guitar player Craig Caffall to help me complete the song, & we recorded it, & made a video to go with it. It is our hope that it will be a useful message in convincing vaccination reluctant folks of yet another good reason to get vaccinated. If all the other good, common sense reasons of protecting loved ones, children, the elderly, etc., didn't do it, perhaps the thought of being liberated to safely resume/pursue a happy active Love Life will be the motivation that does the trick!
~We're hoping if you like the song & the message, you will help us spread the word far & wide!~We encourage you to share this with all your friends, loved ones, peeps on Facebook etc, & encourage them to share it with all of their friends, etc.~We want this message to "go viral" (no pun intended)...a fun way to get out the message for a very good cause!~
Please .....continue to stay safe & healthy!~ 🙏✌ 💖
Maria - great song! We should play it every day. Thank u for all of your music over the years. So honored to have an OG write me today. I loved what Bob Dylan wrote about playing with you in the early days in the Village in his memoir “Chronicles Vol. 1”. Be well. As you say in another song, “Be Your Natural Self.” ♥️🌈
Wow Maria muldaur! So nice to be on the journey with you I love your work I remember it so well and nice to have a current installment I love that you're along with us thank you for your music
Hi Maria, my family had your Midnight at the Oasis album on vinyl when I was growing up and I loved it! It was definitely one of my favorites along with Jim Croce, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel and Seals & Croft. Ahhhhhh....so many musical memories flooding in! Thanks for inspiring me to sing as a child, and glad to see you are still rockin' it and making great music!
I heard your song in my head as soon as I saw your name. Many Blessings for rocking our Soul thru this "impossible world" Maria Muldaur. Especially helping to Stop The Spread that more might live.
Hey thank you Michael for opening up and sharing this music with us. It can get so dark between my ears these days and that makes me no help to the world this helps pop me out of it Kindred Spirits indeed thank you very much you keep me going
No no Michael Moore. Let's not sing about "when it all falls down--we'll be OK if we hold on to each other". This is the time to stand up and fight like hell. The Ghost Towns that Madonna is singing about are the result of lies and illusions the privileged class creates to hide their wealth. If the exchange and taxation of money were transparent and fair, there won't be a whole lot more to fight about because there would be plenty for everyone.
Wonderful, thank you! In the earliest days of the pandemic, March/April 2020, when NYC was its own hotspot and my colleagues at work and neighbors were literally dying, I sought some degree of sanity (or safe insanity?) in assembling a playlist from friends. I bet zillions of people did the same. From "We Just Come To Work Here" (Stamper/Feeney) to "911 Is a Joke" (Public Enemy) they were so essential and have become part of my life and contributed to surviving 2020 mentally. And now "Ghosttown" joins them. Again: thank you!
💜💜💜💜🥰🥰🥰🥰. Add my Soul too as I will be there too. MM , Madonna was and is one of my idols as a musical artist. I have always loved her and her music because she goes against the mainstream and like you, is for the RIGHT and TRUTH filled ideas and protests for it, makes music about it, not just talks, like you, she gets out their and WALKS THE WALK. There are just a few Hollywood people that will Actually get out there and do the REAL thing. This is what makes you and her HEROS for the PEOPLE ! We are Sincerely Grateful and Sooo THANKFUL. Love you and Send Big Hugs for all you and she does too. 🤗
P.S. I still haven’t gotten my vaccine. Waiting for you to contact me to take me and hold my hand. I am frightened. I only live in Cincinnati. I am a homebody lady with a rare condition and this is why I am frightened due to possible side effects Michael Moore. Please HELP me. 💜💜💜💜. Purple Hearts Lover is really scared. Read my story on my profile. Please contact me Michael Moore Sincerely, Please. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Hi Michael, thank you for sharing!🎶Singing a new 🎶 song. To be honest, I haven’t been reading your Substack articles lately cuz their just TOO HEAVY for me at this time. I know myself enough to know what NOT to click on that will not Ultimately uplift my Vibration🕊✨🕊and I love your work!!
It’s just lately the info is TMI (for me) and so I am grateful you posted this today! Love Madonna🌹🎶🌹and you! And happy to click on this and listen and read🕊and I’ll be looking forward to Tues evening☺️Peace & All Good in Troubled Times✌🏼I haven’t given up on you, myself, All my brothers & sisters💚💛❤️On this Planet💙Love is Always the Answer🕊Love, Anna🍌
Wouldn't it be great if Madonna and Michael did a duet about "Climate Covid Coup" and the corporate control of our country? We need to keep throwing the facts back in their GOP faces any way we can. "By their own words are they condemned."
I receive your weekly newsletter and enjoy reading it. However, what I am writing to you now is not related to these topics. Rather, I want to use this opportunity to draw your attention to a systemic human right valuation by right wing Americans (Trump supporters) deep in the American system against me in Canada in the past four years.
The human right abuses that I have been subjected to have had a devastating impact on my life and in turn on my family’s life. These flagrant criminal behaviors violated many aspects of my life ranging from invasion of privacy, hacking my computer as well as my family members devices, interfering with obtaining higher education, employment, harassment, intimidation, indirect death threat, foiled attempted kidnapping, destruction of property, manipulation of credit rating, community incitement and attempting to destroying me psychologically by parading individuals (colon) who look alike my family members, friends, and colleagues in front of me.
I am willing to share my horrible experience with you. This is a must hear true story of terrorism by a system (America) that claims fighting terrorism.
As a tireless social activist, you’re in a good position to help me with exposing this mafia style crime to American people and to the rest of the world.
If you have any questions or need further information, feel free to contact me at:
Michael, Thank you so much for sharing your music, and your podcast is awesome. It has truly opened my eyes to so many things about, politics, humanity,... You are such an inspiration, God bless and protect you always.
Thanks so much for sharing with us the music that moves you. Please take a moment to listen to my song Earth Angels Anthem, as I think you may feel inspired to add it to your playlist.
It all started one morning when I was going through my mail and saw a newsletter from the NRDC, the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group I contribute to. I saw an article about how the Trump Administration wanted to open up national monument land in Utah to coal mining and oil drilling. In the summer of 2019, when I was touring across country, I had an epic adventure at Arches National Park in Moab Utah. I was so blown away by the beauty and power of this sacred place! So, when I read this article and saw the pictures of the arches, I got really upset. I began weeping, not just for this place, but for the multitude of injustices going on in the world today, for the lack of compassion, for the greed and shortsightedness that is destroying everything I value. As my tears subsided, this catchy melody popped into my head, and I decided I would spend the day writing a song to make something beautiful out of all this ugliness. This song is meant to uplift, inspire and empower all of us who still care about this precious green and blue planet we live on, and for those who place the well-being of human beings, the earth, and all its creatures above profits.
The Lyrics...
This song opens with a rendition of an old African slave spiritual "Jacob's Ladder." The traditional lyrics held out hope that the slaves could rise up and escape slavery, and implied that God's promise to Jacob would also lead the slaves to freedom. Instead of "Soldiers of the Cross," I used "Angels of the Earth." And instead of "If you love HIM why not serve HIM," I used "If you love HER why not serve HER," implying that we are here to be stewards of this Earth and to serve and protect Mother Earth...we are to be like angels upon the Earth.
Here where I stand looking at the desert sky
I gaze upon this land and I feel my spirit fly
Here in these canyons where the red rocks gently arch,
I commune with Her presence as the dawn breaks through the dark.
I could stand here forever just to sing the Earth's sweet song
Her love, it makes me strong.
I wish that you could see Her the way I do.
I wish that you'd protect Her and see her through. Why do you hurt Her?
You just keep taking and taking, it breaks my heart.
What are you going to do when everything falls apart?
Here in our cities, where the righteous people march,
we are crying out for justice, with a fire in our hearts.
And the ones who abuse their power try to silence us with force,
like the way they treat our Mother Earth, they destroy without remorse.
But we are our mother's children and we will not back down.
It's time to stand our ground.
I wish you'd see the protests the way I do.
I wish the love in your heart would shine on through... Listen with your heart now.
When will the bombers turn into butterflies?
How much destruction will it take before you open your eyes?
Here on this planet, where the light confronts the dark
We are angels in human bodies, and we're here to light a spark
We will rise up in our Glory singing Love Will Conquer All
And we'll watch the darkness dissipate, as the walls begin to fall
Can I hear a Hallelujah? Let's hear our voices ring
It's time the Angels sing.
Sing Glory Hallelujah from on high.
Sing Glory Hallelujah from on high.
Sing Glory Hallelujah from on high.
Sing Glory Hallelujah let your voices fill the sky
M M <memphismini.me@gmail.com>
Hi Michael~
~ Maria Muldaur here~
~ You might remember me from my big hit way back in the day('74) "Midnight at the Oasis"~ 43 albums later, I spontaneously wrote a Pro- Vaccination song & thought I would share it with you in hopes that you could help spread the message far and wide!~Hopefully a candidate for your Pandemic Playlist!~(We are also hoping the CDC and/or all the other agencies that are trying to get people vaccinated might be able to use part of it for a public service announcement!)
~ I'm a big fan of your work and have been getting your new newsletter, and am deeply grateful for the way you continue to stand up for what is right and speak truth to power!~ God Bless You for everything you do!~ Please don't ever stop!~
~Most gratefully yours~🙏😍
~ Maria Muldaur~
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"VACCINATED & I'M READY FOR LOVE" launching today worldwide!
As I drove away from receiving my second vaccination shot, I was immediately overwhelmed with an immense feeling of Liberation, Exhilaration, Lightness & Joy!~It was a beautiful Spring day, so I rolled back my sunroof to enjoy the ride, & before I knew it I spontaneously started singing ’Vaccinated & I'm Ready for Love’ at the top of my lungs all the way home! I sort of chuckled to myself & forgot about it, but the next day the refrain returned & I found myself singing it throughout the day! Realizing this was a pretty catchy refrain that wouldn't go away, I enlisted my guitar player Craig Caffall to help me complete the song, & we recorded it, & made a video to go with it. It is our hope that it will be a useful message in convincing vaccination reluctant folks of yet another good reason to get vaccinated. If all the other good, common sense reasons of protecting loved ones, children, the elderly, etc., didn't do it, perhaps the thought of being liberated to safely resume/pursue a happy active Love Life will be the motivation that does the trick!
Listen to the Song and Watch the Video Here: https://stonyplainrecords.com/lp/vaccinated/.
~We're hoping if you like the song & the message, you will help us spread the word far & wide!~We encourage you to share this with all your friends, loved ones, peeps on Facebook etc, & encourage them to share it with all of their friends, etc.~We want this message to "go viral" (no pun intended)...a fun way to get out the message for a very good cause!~
Please .....continue to stay safe & healthy!~ 🙏✌ 💖
Maria - great song! We should play it every day. Thank u for all of your music over the years. So honored to have an OG write me today. I loved what Bob Dylan wrote about playing with you in the early days in the Village in his memoir “Chronicles Vol. 1”. Be well. As you say in another song, “Be Your Natural Self.” ♥️🌈
Wow Maria muldaur! So nice to be on the journey with you I love your work I remember it so well and nice to have a current installment I love that you're along with us thank you for your music
Hi Maria, my family had your Midnight at the Oasis album on vinyl when I was growing up and I loved it! It was definitely one of my favorites along with Jim Croce, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel and Seals & Croft. Ahhhhhh....so many musical memories flooding in! Thanks for inspiring me to sing as a child, and glad to see you are still rockin' it and making great music!
I heard your song in my head as soon as I saw your name. Many Blessings for rocking our Soul thru this "impossible world" Maria Muldaur. Especially helping to Stop The Spread that more might live.
Hey thank you Michael for opening up and sharing this music with us. It can get so dark between my ears these days and that makes me no help to the world this helps pop me out of it Kindred Spirits indeed thank you very much you keep me going
I can relate Marilyn, we have to find things to uplift us during these times. And the company of kindred spirits helps A LOT
No no Michael Moore. Let's not sing about "when it all falls down--we'll be OK if we hold on to each other". This is the time to stand up and fight like hell. The Ghost Towns that Madonna is singing about are the result of lies and illusions the privileged class creates to hide their wealth. If the exchange and taxation of money were transparent and fair, there won't be a whole lot more to fight about because there would be plenty for everyone.
Michael, I think Madonna did write that perfect, amazing song for you.
Wonderful, thank you! In the earliest days of the pandemic, March/April 2020, when NYC was its own hotspot and my colleagues at work and neighbors were literally dying, I sought some degree of sanity (or safe insanity?) in assembling a playlist from friends. I bet zillions of people did the same. From "We Just Come To Work Here" (Stamper/Feeney) to "911 Is a Joke" (Public Enemy) they were so essential and have become part of my life and contributed to surviving 2020 mentally. And now "Ghosttown" joins them. Again: thank you!
How appropriate! May I make a suggestion Micheal to the question “how you got so far”
You have followed your heart and soul and stood so proudly for what you believe in, but never been afraid to embrace any progression, however small.
Over the years you have been on the right side of history, but are so humble and dignified, your approach with love admirable.
Thank you for such a lovely Sunday afternoon email. Glad you couldn’t hear the sing a long lol
Sending much love
💜💜💜💜🥰🥰🥰🥰. Add my Soul too as I will be there too. MM , Madonna was and is one of my idols as a musical artist. I have always loved her and her music because she goes against the mainstream and like you, is for the RIGHT and TRUTH filled ideas and protests for it, makes music about it, not just talks, like you, she gets out their and WALKS THE WALK. There are just a few Hollywood people that will Actually get out there and do the REAL thing. This is what makes you and her HEROS for the PEOPLE ! We are Sincerely Grateful and Sooo THANKFUL. Love you and Send Big Hugs for all you and she does too. 🤗
P.S. I still haven’t gotten my vaccine. Waiting for you to contact me to take me and hold my hand. I am frightened. I only live in Cincinnati. I am a homebody lady with a rare condition and this is why I am frightened due to possible side effects Michael Moore. Please HELP me. 💜💜💜💜. Purple Hearts Lover is really scared. Read my story on my profile. Please contact me Michael Moore Sincerely, Please. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Dear Valerie, please call or email the YWCA of Cincinnati Cares:
898 Walnut St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone (513) 241 - 7090
Or contact someone who can contact YWCA Cincinnati Cares for you.
https://cincinnaticares.org/listing-item/ywca-of-greater-cincinnati/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnoqLBhD4ARIsAL5JedJE6k4iOCaBJDCpK1_hg_onLNQ6t3jeV8dMSZiRQRaCPgCthaj1uMoaArSKEALw_wcB
YWCA will help with transportation, financial need and follow-up care with LOVE!
It is scary, but don't be afraid to take this leap of faith, especially with flu season now.
Please remember the vast majority of us care for our elderly. We'll be old someday, too.
Until the last minute, here or there, you are not alone. Breathe and always be strong! I loved the indication, music is love in sound waves.
Hi Michael, thank you for sharing!🎶Singing a new 🎶 song. To be honest, I haven’t been reading your Substack articles lately cuz their just TOO HEAVY for me at this time. I know myself enough to know what NOT to click on that will not Ultimately uplift my Vibration🕊✨🕊and I love your work!!
It’s just lately the info is TMI (for me) and so I am grateful you posted this today! Love Madonna🌹🎶🌹and you! And happy to click on this and listen and read🕊and I’ll be looking forward to Tues evening☺️Peace & All Good in Troubled Times✌🏼I haven’t given up on you, myself, All my brothers & sisters💚💛❤️On this Planet💙Love is Always the Answer🕊Love, Anna🍌
Check this one out Anna...this will uplift you https://youtu.be/Ps-06JByJb0
Thank you😇🎶🌙🌟Peace to you!🕊
Love this!
Thanks Dult for sharing the track! Interesting band and message. Decent beat as well😉Stay Strong my Friend🎶🎶🎶
Great song. So right for these times Hoping your fall day is full of good things
Thank you for the light and heat.
Wouldn't it be great if Madonna and Michael did a duet about "Climate Covid Coup" and the corporate control of our country? We need to keep throwing the facts back in their GOP faces any way we can. "By their own words are they condemned."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/10/opinions/trump-iowa-rally-gop-embrace-obeidallah/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/10/business/facebook-reliable-sources/index.html
The next lines of "Ghosttown" are very descriptive of what is happening:
"Tell me how we got this far
Every man for himself
Everything's gone to hell"
I always wonder the same but then these other lines gives us hope:
"We gotta stay strong, we're gonna hold on
This world has turned to dust
All we've got left is love
Might as well start with us
Singing a new song, something to build on"
Thanks Michael and Madonna, this song make me ask myself this question:
Will only art survive mankind if we are not able to change and we continue in the same path?
Maybe.
Hi Michael,
I receive your weekly newsletter and enjoy reading it. However, what I am writing to you now is not related to these topics. Rather, I want to use this opportunity to draw your attention to a systemic human right valuation by right wing Americans (Trump supporters) deep in the American system against me in Canada in the past four years.
The human right abuses that I have been subjected to have had a devastating impact on my life and in turn on my family’s life. These flagrant criminal behaviors violated many aspects of my life ranging from invasion of privacy, hacking my computer as well as my family members devices, interfering with obtaining higher education, employment, harassment, intimidation, indirect death threat, foiled attempted kidnapping, destruction of property, manipulation of credit rating, community incitement and attempting to destroying me psychologically by parading individuals (colon) who look alike my family members, friends, and colleagues in front of me.
I am willing to share my horrible experience with you. This is a must hear true story of terrorism by a system (America) that claims fighting terrorism.
As a tireless social activist, you’re in a good position to help me with exposing this mafia style crime to American people and to the rest of the world.
If you have any questions or need further information, feel free to contact me at:
Karim.nourani@yahoo.com
Regards,
Karim Nourani
Michael, Thank you so much for sharing your music, and your podcast is awesome. It has truly opened my eyes to so many things about, politics, humanity,... You are such an inspiration, God bless and protect you always.
Dear Michael,
Thanks so much for sharing with us the music that moves you. Please take a moment to listen to my song Earth Angels Anthem, as I think you may feel inspired to add it to your playlist.
https://youtu.be/Ps-06JByJb0
The catalyst for this song…
It all started one morning when I was going through my mail and saw a newsletter from the NRDC, the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group I contribute to. I saw an article about how the Trump Administration wanted to open up national monument land in Utah to coal mining and oil drilling. In the summer of 2019, when I was touring across country, I had an epic adventure at Arches National Park in Moab Utah. I was so blown away by the beauty and power of this sacred place! So, when I read this article and saw the pictures of the arches, I got really upset. I began weeping, not just for this place, but for the multitude of injustices going on in the world today, for the lack of compassion, for the greed and shortsightedness that is destroying everything I value. As my tears subsided, this catchy melody popped into my head, and I decided I would spend the day writing a song to make something beautiful out of all this ugliness. This song is meant to uplift, inspire and empower all of us who still care about this precious green and blue planet we live on, and for those who place the well-being of human beings, the earth, and all its creatures above profits.
The Lyrics...
This song opens with a rendition of an old African slave spiritual "Jacob's Ladder." The traditional lyrics held out hope that the slaves could rise up and escape slavery, and implied that God's promise to Jacob would also lead the slaves to freedom. Instead of "Soldiers of the Cross," I used "Angels of the Earth." And instead of "If you love HIM why not serve HIM," I used "If you love HER why not serve HER," implying that we are here to be stewards of this Earth and to serve and protect Mother Earth...we are to be like angels upon the Earth.
Here where I stand looking at the desert sky
I gaze upon this land and I feel my spirit fly
Here in these canyons where the red rocks gently arch,
I commune with Her presence as the dawn breaks through the dark.
I could stand here forever just to sing the Earth's sweet song
Her love, it makes me strong.
I wish that you could see Her the way I do.
I wish that you'd protect Her and see her through. Why do you hurt Her?
You just keep taking and taking, it breaks my heart.
What are you going to do when everything falls apart?
Here in our cities, where the righteous people march,
we are crying out for justice, with a fire in our hearts.
And the ones who abuse their power try to silence us with force,
like the way they treat our Mother Earth, they destroy without remorse.
But we are our mother's children and we will not back down.
It's time to stand our ground.
I wish you'd see the protests the way I do.
I wish the love in your heart would shine on through... Listen with your heart now.
When will the bombers turn into butterflies?
How much destruction will it take before you open your eyes?
Here on this planet, where the light confronts the dark
We are angels in human bodies, and we're here to light a spark
We will rise up in our Glory singing Love Will Conquer All
And we'll watch the darkness dissipate, as the walls begin to fall
Can I hear a Hallelujah? Let's hear our voices ring
It's time the Angels sing.
Sing Glory Hallelujah from on high.
Sing Glory Hallelujah from on high.
Sing Glory Hallelujah from on high.
Sing Glory Hallelujah let your voices fill the sky
In Peace and Solidarity,
Mirabai Moon
www.MysticalKirtan.com