Name: Maiden Song
Duration: 4 min 50 s
Channel: Michelle Mays
Description: The lyrics invoke the Triple nature of Feminine Deity, our female ancestors and the listener, to rejoice in the celebration of Womanhood.

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The lyrics invoke the Triple nature of Feminine Deity, our female ancestors and the listener, to rejoice in the celebration of Womanhood.

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Michelle Mays

Contemporary Folk/Pop. Gentle, comforting, joyful and reassuring the heart,spirit and honoring Mother Earth and The Goddess within us all. Singer/Songwriter M

Singer/Songwriter, Michelle Mays is a solo artist with three CD's, Fireleap, a Collection of Beltane song and chant, The Golden Section and The Promise. The music reflects the growing philosophy and awareness of the Earth Spirit, and the Celebration and Sacredness of life. Her original music will touch your heart and spirit, will move you to Joy, reassurance and comfort.. and may even make you smile. Michelle was raised in a family of musicians and singers, and began performing with the family when she was a child. As a teenager, she played in various dance bands around Tulsa,Oklahoma. Later, Michelle played her music at country hootenannies, coffee houses, gatherings and events throughout the US. Within the past few years, her recorded work has been played on independent radio stations across the US, including NPR. Currently, she performs at events and gatherings throughout the Mid-West, and is working on a series of CD's to celebrate the Wheel of the Year.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Dance-Pop

Charts

Peak #107

Peak in subgenre #46

Author

Michelle Mays

Rights

Michelle Mays

Uploaded

September 15, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.4 MB • 128 kbps • 4:50

Story behind the song

In the Fall of 2002, I was asked to write a song for a young girl about to reach her first stages of womanhood. How could I say no?

She was soon to become a maiden. What message do I want to give her at this special time? Do I tell her about the changes in her body and in the way she thinks? Do I tell her about what it is like to be a woman? Do I tell her about the dance of Maidenhood and it leading to the possibility of Motherhood, ahh, the joy and agony of it all? Do I give her bits of information about being a woman? No.. she’d be getting lots of that from her Mother’s Circle of Friends. What could I tell her? 

In the winter, I sat with my guitar in my darkened living room. As I pondered my joy and hope for her life, I saw her mother, and her Mothers’ Mother, and her Mother’s Mother… and the song manifested before I knew what was happening. This is another one of my songs that I really feel is a gift of the Goddess.. a channeling of the Goddess, so to speak. 

The lyrics invoke the Triple nature of Feminine Deity, our female ancestors and the listener, to rejoice in the celebration of Womanhood.

When I've performed it live, and since the Cd's release, I've had many women tell me that The Maiden Song brings warmth to their hearts and tears to their eyes. And like The Welcoming, the Blessing song for a new child, The Maiden Song is being used in The Rites of Passage for Maidens, and for the Celebration of WOMAN!

Lyrics

The Maiden Song
(words & music by Michelle Mays)
Chorus

Aphrodite, Iris, Artemis, Persephone
Danu, Demeter, Hera, Isis, Selu
Morrigan, Hecate, Cerridwen, Kali-ma

Like your Mother before you
And her Mother before her, 
On and on since the dawn of time.
The wheel turns, The Spiral yearns, 
The rites of Passage are upon you. 
We call you now to Sacred Circle
Where we dance with Natures plan
Ah, come dance with the Mother
Ah, come dance Sweet Maiden 
Ah, come dance with the Crone, all things shall be known. 

We are the daughters of investigation
We are the Mother of Creation
We are the Crones of Realization
The Action, the Knower and the Known.
You’re Leaving Childhood behind
Embracing womanhood with your maiden’s blood!

Chorus

The Spiral Spins and Turns
Fulfillment is where it yearns
It’s the Driving force of Evolution
It always leads ………to resolution. 
For every action has reaction.
We call to you, from this ancient circle
Where we dance with Nature’s Plan
Ah, come dance with the Mother
Ah, come dance Sweet Maiden
Ah, come dance with the Crone, all things shall be known. 

Credits: Written and performed by Michelle Mays 


copyright 2003 Michelle Mays