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Marieke is Guiding Song

songwriting for social change, solidarity, and sustainability

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    • Guiding Song
    • Marieke and Sarah
    • How to write a Story-to-Song
    • Origins of Story-to-Song
    • Why share our stories?
    • Faces and Voices of Story-to-Song
    • Guiding Song in the Media
    • Testimonials
  • Support Guiding Song
  • Songwriter Stories
  • World Map of Music
  • Guiding Song Projects
    • Creatures On the Move
      • The Fish Song
      • The Bird Song
      • The Frog Song
      • The Wolf Song
      • The Butterfly Song
      • The Whale Song
      • The Snail Song
      • The Turtle Song
      • The Cow Song
      • The Puffin Song
      • The Child Song
    • Mondays On the Move
    • On the Move (the book)
    • Migration Songs
      • Never give up
      • The mountain and me
      • I’ll meet you there
      • Side by side [We are alive]
      • I want a peaceful life
      • Zindgi Sakhta [Life is hard]
      • Live free
      • The sun will come again
      • Let’s dance in the rain
      • Laugh at life, and Life laughs back
      • I am the change
      • Love
      • Break the code
      • I am a word
      • Free again
      • Remember Rose
      • The Domes of Damascus
      • Who you love is who you are
      • If only we hope
      • Don’t wait, create
      • A Song for Mohanad
      • There is a day
      • Free [Nobody asking me]
      • Nataghiar [Let’s change]
      • The Pigeon Song
      • My lovely, my lovely [Habibi, habibi]
      • Soyons Unis [Ce n’est que la vie]
      • When the whole world is gone
      • Just be happy [The meaning of life]
      • I could be you, you could be me
      • Thank you for coming
      • Let the silence speak
      • We are all human
      • The hand that hurts can also heal
      • I want to live
      • Yala Yala Yala [Let’s go!]
      • Feel free
      • Hakuna Matata
      • Let me be free [Free like a smile]
      • What gives you hope
      • We are the nomads
      • You are always here with me
      • Give me a chance
      • She will walk again
      • A wild idea
      • When you cross the border
      • Waiting words
    • New Bedford Whaling
      • Mansions Divine
      • These are not just names
      • We would all walk home
    • The Workers Remember
      • No fans [Celia’s song]
      • You are the lucky one
      • Four pennies
      • I was a mill worker
      • The ghosts of Lowell
      • Rainy day song
      • I would do it all again
    • A Month of Music
      • Monsters
      • A song for Zana
      • City to remember
      • The stones of Lowell canals
      • Long distance song
      • We’d be happy
      • Saturn’s return
      • Pick a side
    • Lowell for Children and Grownups
      • Life outside my house is strange and crazy
      • Wake up, Vytha
      • Bria’s song [Penguins make me happy]
      • Fantastic flag song
      • I need to feel this place [Liza’s song]
      • A song of survival
      • To spend my life with you
      • What a child would do
      • Valentine’s Day song
      • I can’t believe I made it there
    • Marieke Slovin: Life in Story and Song
      • The preschool song
      • Nowhere is home
      • Free in the moment
      • Canyon song
      • Size doesn’t matter
      • Snow angels
      • I can only be myself
      • The way that they do
      • What do you need to be happy?
      • Creating me
    • Southwest Songs
      • Because she isn’t me
      • This house feels like a home
      • Born to fly
      • Shadow in the dark
    • Brussels Songs
      • Alaska
      • In peace with myself
      • Happy birthday Kamran
  • Migration and Movement Poetry
    • Sarah Reader Harris
      • Migration
      • Another Country
      • 75 inspirerende plaatsen in Brussel
    • Seydou
    • Aziz Lamarti
    • Poetry Around the World
  • Albums
  • Music Videos

I was a mill worker

 

Lowell National Historical Park music video

 

Spontaneous Performance at the 2013 Bread and Roses Festival in Lawrence, Massachusetts

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