Carl Swan Tree Song
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2013
- This is a song that came to me about 5 years ago when things weren't exactly going the way I had envisioned them to be. I was at one of the lowest times of my life and when that happened I turned especially to the gift I was given and my drum. Rather then thinking about myself in what i was going through, I sat alone and looked towards the sweat lodge near the bushes and thought about what the world was going through. The world as i know it is home to my children, knowing that I am alive and my children are alive, breathing the same air that i breathe.
Life is beautiful. When you look at the trees you see them reaching to the sky giving thanks to the great spirit, they too fall but they keep trying to get back up. They try because they know as little as they are when they grow they have a purpose in life, if they fail to come back to us it is because we failed them.
The water that we drink is as sacred as the woman who carries us, without water we would not survive, without the woman we would not be here. All that our ancestors have believed in is within our grasp and I truly believe are calling us to do what it is the great spirit intended us to do as human beings.
The ways of the Anishanabe people are to listen to the land, love and respect it, there are many different ways we can see and understand Creators love for us all.
Enjoy this song, Ki Chi Miigwetch. Carl Swan
Thank you to everyone for your comments. I've been having a rough time lately and haven't been too active online but I will do my best to keep in touch with everyone. What I have been tell everyone is that with these words to the song, it is about hearing your inner spirit of why ever you may be going through in life and connecting yourself with what we need to do to work together, to make each other feel like family no matter what direction we come from. To know the song is to feel the song, that way you will understand the words. Understanding that everything we have is life and needs to be loved an respected, the true meaning of creators vision.
I wish that the great spirit can always enlighten your step. beautiful song makes our being travel the world of the great cause of life
Carl Swan thank you miigwetch
Hi Carl, I absolutely love this song and your voice chi megwiitch for putting this out here to share with us. I wanted to ask if you may be able to share the proper words with us in the language and English and if so may you message me back please.
I'm born in Greenland therefore I am an inuit. I can not understand native american language, though we have some words that we call the same. Like water, reindeer and the most basic names of the wild. Anyways.
I was eating and did mind my own business while listening to this particular song when I suddenly could not hold my tears back. Sorrow and homesick over..believe it or not, the vast lands and my people called Abenaki tribes in the 16-1700th. century. I miss my traditions. Our proud culture and the contact with the nature. I mean..what?!
The only thing I have connection with native american history is, that I am really really afraid of wolves😁 Especially them white ones in which one of them is my spiritual guide as I am a socalled clairvoyant and seer of the future.
Anyone to explain this, please.
Thank you. I came because I am dreaming of Swan trees. I hope your path is easy and all your burdens light.
This song is so heavenly. I stumbled upon this song after searching for the meaning of a "dream catcher" on Google and I saw the word Ojibwe. Searched ojibwe on CZcams and I saw Carl's song. I'm west African but can relate so much with this song, almost like I'm been called home, like God wants my attention, to love humanity more. Isn't it so beautiful how these African, Indies, Latin American, Amazonia, Caribbean songs sounds alike? We are all one race and that is the HUMAN RACE.
Exactly
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Still listening in 2020.
This song always helps lift my spirits.
Miigwech
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First time hearing this. Thank you!
Best wishes to you, and your circle niijogun.
Boozhoo. As a fellow Anishinaabe, there's nothing more beautiful than hearing another Anishinaabe voice sing. Greetings from Lake Of The Woods Ojibwa.
2023.... BEAUTIFUL.. POWERFUL. PRAYERS u still walk the EARTH. MITAKUYE OYASIN .💙
I was in a halfway house and I was sitting in the elders office talking with her and she said my girl listen to this song. I speak ojibwe and when I was in jail no one spoke it but one elder in Edmonton I missed talking in my language I always didn't have money to call home but when I did it was like I was right there sitting there talking to my dad. Listening to this song made me felt at home anywhere I was thank you for this song
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This is a beautiful song. I was looking for a song to honour the tree in ceremony for all the gifts the tree provides us. The sacred tree provides physical and spiritual protection by providing material for homes and ceremonial lodges. The tree provides protection from the sun and firewood provides protection from the cold and heats our grandfather rocks. The tree also provides the material from which kayaks and canoes are made. It is the central pole of unity for our people. It provides nourishment by growing fruit. When the leaves fall to the earth in the fall they provide nourishment to the land. So many gifts. Too many to name. Thank you for this beautiful song.
Carl Swan .... I have to tell you something.
This song got to me deep, in a way few do. So I thought I'd send it to my brother and see how he reacted.
We're both white, raised Christian. But my path went down a more "red", spiritual road than my brother Mark. So I've heard a ton more drumming and singing than he has -- powwows, ceremonies, sweats, DVDs & online stuff. It's part of my life although not a huge part. I find stuff in Native music I can't find anywhere else.
Mark and I were raised in New Mexico, surrounded by Native influence. So both of us have something in us that pulls at us that way, although Mark chose a more traditional Christian path than I did. That said, I wondered how my brother would "hear" this song, how deeply it would reach. He very rarely hears drumming and singing.
He just texted me with this:
"I read his comments. Made me cry. He beats the drum like the beat of a heart.❤️"
That it reached deep enough to make this mainstream white Christian boy cry says a lot about what you've done here. I cried too, but although that was very unusual for me, I wasn't terribly surprised, given the depth of this song.
But somehow this song broke through mainstream cultural barriers to allow someone to feel it on a spiritual level and even make them cry.
THAT surprised me.
You've got something I haven't heard in any other singer/drummer.
❤i love this song,i sang it to my husband before he left to the spirit world. Beautiful song so much meaning in this song. LIFE,REBORN,OUR PRECIOUS MOTHER,OUR PRECIOUS WATER.❤
MUCH RESPECT For Life, spirituality ❤🙏
Prayers my dear friend, for life. @@wilmaprettyshield7564
🖤🩵🧡🤍🖤🩵🧡🤍
I don't know your language, but my heart and soul understands this sacredness , my feet feel this heartbeat and my mind knows this cry up... thank you..
this is a song about tree sacrifice its self, a celebration
2020, still going hard listening to this song!
Did my uncle Ej Smith help with this song? That's what I heard.
Thank you from Perú...ahoo
And now 2021 💖
Thank you from Denmark 👏
2020 just found this song after diving into the roots and learning the language.
In a way I'm happy i found it after a year or two of study, because I understood it 🥺🥰.
Kichi Miigwetch for all your comments, it's been a while since I've done anything because we've been preparing for baby who is gonna be out singing her first solo as she comes into this world. Baby is due on March 15th. Again, maybe creator bless you and watch over you all.
Love the song
+Carl Swan It's spring here and just starting to see our trees starting to bud and had to play your song for them chi miigwetch Hope alls well with your baby
Should add more videos..just beautiful bro...
red diaper man gord says really makes me want to go back home
This is such a beautiful song. Touches my soul. Can you please translate this song?Walalin.
Bizindan aki, mitigook, nibi
Nistoodan gaye maamgiitoon
Gizhi-maniou gagii-kenimaa, zaawendiwin miinawaa mino-bimaadiziwin....
Miigwetch Brother
I love this song me n my partner got into a fight when we were drunk then we went on a trip the next day n this came up on my CZcams I cried so hard looking at the bush praying hard and I looked over she was crying also we had some good healing that evening I love her so much n I love this song so much
Hey Carl my Name is Todd Tormanen from Fond DU Lac Reservation in Minnesota. This song travels the earth and heals. Gichi migwich Niikaan
I found this song, in 2022 ...the melody is beautifull, close the eye and feel the melody with your soul, i feel have different happiness from inside, thanks for i found this song 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
keep on singing you brought tears to my eye this morning kchi miigwetch my heart is filled with joy
Every morning I play this as I walk through a path to my son's school... It is my respect to the trees along that path. 💚
There's many people like myself who no longer have any connection to their culture and the only place we can know it is thru listening to songs performed online. Thank you for this!
best thing online too
I can totally relate. Even still, this song 🎵 hits me hard. I think 🤔 I might play it for my son later.
I lost my uncle this morning. This song brought me to tears. Thank you for this song. Much needed and support. ❤
Chelsea Demas my heartfelt condolences to you and your family. 🔥
@@carlswan1308 thank you
Checking in on ya niijogun, prayers for strength. @@chelseademas7021
My son is 5 months and I always play this for him to sleep, he loves it.
This song is filled in my family. Truly beautiful
What an emotional song I've ever heard in my short life so far... I dream about being a singer like this....This is my dream of living (Actually) living j mean.
thank you for this song carl. i am going trough intense times where i get the oppurtunities from creator to change things for the better. your song comes from very deep within and i feel carried by prayers like this. thank you for changing lives with this gift
You sure have a gift, my brother. Keep on singing for creation, this is a very powerful song. A'ho.
Prayers for Carl's family. His father just passed away.
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This is music. Not the mainstream Taylor swift nonsense we have nowadays. Songs like this have meaning and teach us as they all used to. Keep the songs alive my friend.
I can invision a thousand years and more of history and culture of many native people's from this music
and I am getting goosebumps right now just thinking about this fact, and I do not think I have any native dna or ancestors as far as I know of
❤God blessing the time comes back wich humans see the reality of mother eryh
My papa who i close with passed away in june of 2022 and two months later I discover and video of man with same name playing a beautiful song reminds me of him
Very healing song! ❤️🙏 If you have the voice and a song comes to you, it's a gift, sing load and sing proud we are first Nations !! Stay safe each and everyone of you who are taking the Time to read my post 💯 hiy hiy Aho
If you have a song in your heart..you always survive❤
Nia:wen - Miigwech for sharing this beautiful song and has great strength within it. My name is Kingfish - Ogashkimanisii and today for me your spirit/song was healing
Anizhiinaa'bE The beautiful orginal people .
You have inspired me by your suffering and the climbing out of the pit that you fell into. Your song will be there in the wild where I go to, like you, honour our creator. In our darkest times, may we be reminded of the overwhelming love that is given to us, as it beats within us, like your drum. Your language and voice are of great beauty. I am honoured to have heard them.
Love the song, even play it at the gym, gives me a strong sense of pride & strength knowing our people have such beautiful culture and music! Thanks for sharing!
Miigwetch, this song touched my heart deeply.
Thank you, brother, for sharing your gifts with us. Your song has touched my spirit deeply.
Would you please share the lyrics to this beautiful song. Miigwech niijii
Learn from listening. It is tradition 🙂
I am proud to have 1/4 Cherokee and 1/4 Seminole in me from my father and rip father till we met again in heaven
Today August 3rd. 2023 This world is so crule. People won't stop hurting people. Our people are stronger 💪 then anyone can think. They have been to hell and came back. Some of them not. Leather Creater lead the way. Let the trees sing you songs , the grass give you breath, and the rivers tell you stories.
Thank you
This song has helped me thru hard times and also assists me in my recovery. Miigwich niikaan!
I don't understand the words, but this is a very beautiful song. It's very soothing and calming, like a meditation. Thank you for sharing this with us. God bless!
as-salamu alaykum
its 12 am i miss my uncle this songs for him rest in piece uncle i love you.
Boozhoo wachiye Carl Swan I just wanted to thank you and give you good blessings. I am very fluent with the language Ojibwe, Cree, Oji-cree and can adapt with many dialects, I am very proud to have kept the ways of our cultural traditions and walk that good way of life but anyways a very special and close friend of mine showed me this song (nigaamowin) a few years ago and was very moved by this song and asked me if I may translate the words to this song and so I did the best of my knowledge, so my best friend he past away 2017 and I think of him everyday and I cry for him many tears, he comes to visits me in my dreams, and everytime I dream of him this particular song I can hear every time I start hearing the soft beat of the drum, and he sings it as he sang it when he was full of life and always invited me to sing with him, but we sang together for many years in our drum group and we've became more like brothers and I do love and enjoy singing this beautiful song and my children love it and our friends and family are touched by it and it is a very special song and I thank you again meegwech
Kraig Moonyaz miigwetch!! Miigwetch!!!!
Kraig I am trying to learn this song and I do not know Ojibwe, just a few words. Would you be willing to share the translation? I would like to know which trees I am singing to or about or is it all of them. Migwetch . This song moves me as well and I spend a lot of time praying for the trees and talking to people about the trees here in the NW where ivy and morning glory and drought are killing so many. Amy
Boozhoo, my husband and I would also like to learn this song. If we could offer tobacco we would. Please let me know if you can share the words (lyrics) in Anishinabemowin along with their translation. Miigwetch.
I am deeply moved by this song. This song is beautiful.
Thanks for cheering me up i my self seeing our land being destroyed for riches and yet we still sit back and have done nothing about it
Beautiful and touching!!! Such power and emotion... really amazing, thank you.
Spirit led me to your song tonight and urged me to dance. I too have been feeling low, especially with this year. This song is such a gift thank you 🙏🏼
I love your voice. I used to stand before the trees and watch them dance and sway in the wind and all was alright once again. I miss it.
You are the trees sway. Thank you.
What an incredible song. Thank you for sharing this powerful and necessary medicine.
I just introduced this song to my partner Nikki. Her reply? It's nice and then she starts humming to the song. Much respect my, A'ho bro
I just love this Song
Chi Miigwetch Carl
Beautiful
2019 and I still love this song
I love this song
Nweechkehn .... Howa !! Knita toon nigum !! Gchi miiigwetch
Friend...wow...your a good singer...great thank you
This song is so hard to learn 😫 I wanted to sing it at the full moon ceremony with my sisters.
I love it so much
let's
Mirwacin🙏🏼🌲♥️
that is the most beautiful and soul touching song i have ever heard. miigwetch so much for sharing it, i can't stop crying....
Thank you for your truth
Your singing is comforting, and to all who join, love and feel in the same way as you. Thank you that echoes my own belly, my heart and my spirit, thank you for speaking with so much beauty and sang so clearly.
A French girl
In French : Merci pour votre Vérité
Votre chant est un réconfort, et à tous ceux qui vous rejoignent, aiment et ressentent de la même manière que vous. Merci cela fait écho à mon propre ventre, à mon coeur et mon esprit, merci d'avoir Parlé avec tant de Beauté et Chanté avec tant de Clarté.
Une petite Française
I don't understand the words I am Lakota... But just to hear your voice with the words I feel all emotions at once ...thank you
When you sing this song it feeds my soul. Thank you so much for your beautiful song.
Beautiful Song Carl and Hiy hiy.. the moment I first heard this song reminded me of our loved ones who have gone before us. Such beautiful voice and you sing it so well. Touched my heart and reminds me that we all have to continue in our life's journey and heal. nanāskomitin 🙏❤
I'm a proud native women and love what we stand for and I'm also a proud Mexican American who is proud of my heritage Mother Earth and Creator above anything in this world I will always teach my children what my grandmother and my uncles and aunties taught me I will carry out our Traditions with pride. As well as my Angels Above Guadalupe and Jesus Christ and God.
Wow!! I don't understand a word you are singing but the love in your voice for this flower of life the tree .. I would love to hear more n thank you for touching my heart brother.
Tiniki Mr Swan! Such a beautiful song! Thanks for sharing it with us all!
…….so beautiful……
Thanks for sharing this… I’ve been going through something tearing me down and this lifts up my mind
All native American Indian music keeps me ground on mother Earth always
This has become one of my favorite songs over the years. Miigwech for sharing this❤🔥💯
Thank you so much, beautifull chant that's made me cry, and I don"t know why. Wonderful words keeping great true. Send you a big Hug from Tenerife (Canary Island). Namasté
I still love this song, I have been singing along with it but I’m not native enough to know what it’s about or it’s meaning. My native heritage was stripped from me and I have been learning on my own. Only thing I remember from when I was little is going to powwows and reservations, and I got to tell you I’d do it again and stay if I could.😞 But your voice fills me with joy and pride. ☺️
I cried hearing this the first time; I love it.
David Hudson ... Dude it does touch u in away most people won't understand or even why they crying. the power of a healing song..eh.. Hoka Hey Carl Swan first time me heard this song just caught me ears hooked like that ... I'm learning this song to sing too my daughter. ..Cha miigwetch 👍👍👍👍✌
this song always uplifts me. i can feel my res calling me home. i will be back LCO! i felt more at home there than a where i was born here in Chicago. im coming home soon. i can feel it in my whole body...it aches to go back home to my people and to live a much better life than i did when i was there almost almost 8 years ago. miigwich for this beautiful song. your singling is so beautiful.
This song hits me right in the soul. I think 🤔 I'll play it for my son.
Still my favorite and so soothing. I sing this when Im out in the bush and want to thank the trees for being the life we breathe
Miigwetch for sharing! Good feeling.
Niijii Need some more song on here
Love this song can't stop listening to it
A GREAT POWER IS IN THIS SONG....WOPILA to you for posting this , and sharing your story with us....I hope all is well with you , as I write this to you ....
I know it's been 7 years since you posted this, but I wanted to let you know that people are still finding this amazing song! I appreciate you sharing it with us. 💟
thank you for not just your song but for what u shared along with it
Thank you for attending our Celebration this year sir!
Your song is so beautiful! I am so happy that I found it. I listen to it and it helps to keep me moving forward. Miigwech niibowaa.
I thank you for this song my daughter an I had breakfast listening to it .She came for a visit an it brought memories of when she was young an we would sing together.
Thank you for this song. I felt my heart open and my body relax. Your healing gift has helped me today.
Everything from my description starting "Life is beautiful" would give you the full meaning of the tree song. Enjoy.
Carl Swan Wow. Great song.
life is beautiful. your description almost made me shed a happy tear.
This is so unique and uplifting. Celebrating the miracles of live we are privileged to be witnesses of. Praise to the maker of it all.
I love also what you have written.
One Love.
8th Fire Prophecy.
7th Generation.
Purification through 🔥.
Now on 🌎.
Prayers ☝.
Smoke down.
❤
that knocked my brain into the middle of next week, my wife came in and asked who's that, the 2 of us are looking at each other, may the creator take care of you, from across the water in Scotland.
Thank you my brother. 👊🏽
What a keen song brother!! I'm not Ojibwe but this song is Beautiful it reminds me of my uncle who sang songs like this in Lakota, Sauk & Fox they where Beautiful too miss his voice and when I heard you singing you sounded just like him putting your all into the song. I'm part Lakota, Sauk & Fox, Seminole, and Creek from Oklahoma. Just wanna say thank you for sharing this beautiful song
Ki chi Miigwetch niijogun.
Great thanks my friend. ❤️🔥
Beautiful commentary in the description as well! Thank you!
Boozhoo Carl, I found your video a few years back and loved the sound of the drum and words you sing. In June 2019 a new granddaughter was born to our family. And being her Koko, and wanting to give her the best, when I would help put her down for her naps, I would play this song for her. She would lay her head on my shoulder as I rocked her to sleep. The reason I played this song for her was because I observed that when ever she was near a window, she was always looking up and the only thing I could see that may have caught her attention were the swaying of the trees. And being the new spirit that she is, I thought she must see the spirit of the trees. So I play it for her. Miigwech for the beautiful song. It uplifts me. I am trying to catch the words so I can sing it too.
what a Wonder-ful melody, wonderful- full of wonders
That's a good song you singing weather play happy songs Happy songs and he's saying these good good wave and a very powerful way I'm a very kind way you know what day and I hate day wash day at all
Miigwetch your song gave me some uplifting spirit when I feel at my lowest point in time, everyday anishinabwe people go through are sometimes very intense & the sacred things we have in this life to still be able to teach our younger generations & even the older ones.
Wow.. this song touched my heart.. literally in tears.. miigwetch..
Beautiful song!!! Fills my heart with love!
this is so beautiful…. miikwich for sharing your beautiful gift..
Beautiful
This song brings tears to my eyes but happy healing tears ohhh
Healing, beautiful healings ways. 🔥
lov it ❤ lov trees ❤ lov singer
Beautiful song. Brings me peace and strength. Miigwech.