Healing River from Atomic Folk by Wychwood
Tracklist
| 2. | Healing River | 5:16 |
Lyrics
O healing river, send down your waters
Send down your waters upon this land
O healing river, send down your waters
To wash the blood from off the sand
Verses chords:
G D G C / G A DA D / G B7 Em A / G AmD GC G [1st verse]
" " " " G ↓ B7 [2nd verse]
This land is thirsting, this land is parching
No seed is growing in the barren ground
This land is thirsting, this land is parching
O healing river, send your water down
Bridge:
Em — B7 — / Em A DA D / G B7 Em A / G AmD GC G
Let the seed of freedom, awake and flourish
Let the deep roots nourish, let the tall stalk rise
Oh seed of freedom, awake and flourish
Proud leaves uncurling, into the skies
O healing river, send down your waters
Send down your waters upon this land
This land is thirsting, this land is parching
O healing river, send your water down
Chord key: Slashes show line divisions, dash means keep playing the previous chord, squished chords mean play two chords in the time you do one unsquished chord. The down arrow indicates a bass string walkdown from one chord to another.
Written by Fred Hellerman & Fran Minkoff. This version is adapted from the way Pete Seeger recorded it on his 1964 album I Can See a New Day.
The field recording of the Kitchissippi (Ottawa River) was from the shore between the Remic Rapids and Aurora Island, August 4, 2025.
Credits
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
We identify only half-jokingly as “the world’s first blackgrass band.” We play old murder-ballads and other spooky traditional folk songs, with some bright and sentimental spots thrown in for contrast. Some days we’re acoustic purists. Some days we like to corrupt traditional folksongs with bits of black metal, ambient, and noise music. We’re trying to make folk music dangerous again.