Songs and Hymns of the Universe Story:
The Epic of Evolution in Song (mp3 format)


  • "PETER MAYER SINGS The Great Story": CD
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    		 Singer-songwriter Peter Mayer collaborated with us to produce a retrospective of 13 of his songs that celebrate the Epic of Evolution. His two most famous songs in this collection are "Blue Boat Home" and "Holy Now". You can listen to samples and purchase the CD through by clicking on the title above.

    "I was in tears when I first heard "Blue Boat Home." A year later, I wept again, on Earth Day Sunday, as I walked up the aisle of a church while 500 congregants sang Peter's words of praise to our beloved planet." — Connie Barlow

    (posted March 2007)

  • "WE ARE MADE OF STARDUST" (chant) by Connie Barlow
       Themes: ancestor stars; atoms in our bodies forged from stars;
       Also for use in the Stardust Ritual.
       AUDIO.

  • "THE RIVER OF LIFE SONG" by Connie Barlow
       Theme: 25 verses to celebrate all life forms, in order of relatedness to us
       AUDIO of 4 verses.

  • "WELCOME TO THE RIVER OF LIFE" (chant) by Connie Barlow
        For use to transit from station-to-station in "The River of Life Ritual".

  • "IN THE BEGINNING" (chant) by Connie Barlow
        Written and sung by Connie Barlow at the world's first "Evolutionary Revival", held at First Unitarian Church of San Diego, 15 February 2008. Connie wrote this chant as a way to teach the science of how the atoms in our bodies were created inside of ancestor stars. This was used just before the "Startull: The Story of An Average Yellow Star" parable at the evolutionary revival.

  • "I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY (The Universe Story)" by Evelyn Tyner
       Theme: cosmic and life evolution   Full songsheet in PDF

  • "THERE ARE ANCESTORS IN THE NIGHT SKY" by Connie Barlow
       Themes: our atoms from stardust; birthday stars (light years away)
       Also for use in the Birthday/Anniversary Stars Celebration.
       AUDIO of the first 5 verses.

  • "WE ARE MADE OF STARDUST BURNING" a CHANT by Connie Barlow
       Theme: our atoms come from stardust
       AUDIO of the one-sentence chant.

  • "SILENT NIGHT" by Connie Barlow
       Theme: our atoms created by ancestral stars (for Christmas & Winter Solstice)
       AUDIO of first verse.

  • "DEATH HAS LIFTED US" by Connie Barlow
       Theme: Death as natural & generative in cosmic, earth, and biological sciences
       AUDIO of 4 verses.

  • "PRAISE BIRTH AND DEATH AMID THE STARS" by Connie Barlow
       Themes: Death as natural & generative in heaven and Earth
       AUDIO / Full songsheet in PDF

  • "TWINKLE, TWINKLE" (NEW VERSES)
       2 new verses to the traditional song

  • "WE GATHER TOGETHER" (for Grace at meals) words by Philemon Sturges
       Theme: "sing praises to the life that becomes now our own"
       AUDIO.

  • "HUMANS WROTE THE BIBLE; GOD WROTE THE ROCKS" by Cat Faber, of the acoustic duo, Echo's Children.

  • "BLUE BOAT HOME" by Peter Mayer
       exquisite, easy-to-sing celebration of Planet Earth gliding through the galaxy

  • Kathy Sherman is a celebrated singer/songwriter of the Universe Story movement, in the Sisters of St. Joseph community, LaGrange Illinois. Visit her website: ministryofthearts.org

  • Greg Tamblyn is a wonderful, science-hip folksinger. Hear the Universe Story in two songs ("All These Atoms" and "When Carl Sagan Died") downloadable in mp-3 from his website: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gregtamblyn5.

  • "FIREBALL" by Earth Mama.

  • "GENTLE ARMS OF EDEN" by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer.

  • "THE UNIVERSE SONG" from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life movie. (Lyrics only).

  • "DANCE for SPIRIT OF LIFE", which is Hymn #123 in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal. This short song was set to dance by Penny Wollan Kriel. You can access a VIDEO of the dance movement.

    Note: for songs written by Connie Barlow or Evelyn Pease Tyner, permission is automatically granted for any and all uses respectful of the underlying sciences and the sense of the sacred in the natural world.


    WWW www.TheGreatStory.org