My Roots Go Down

Words and music by Sarah Pirtle
© 1979 and 1989 Discovery Center Music BMI

Sarah says, “I wrote this song in a forest under a winter full moon in 1979. It is a song of peace and encouragement, an environmental song, and more. A storyteller, Susan Tobin, taught it to Ladysmith Black Mambazo when they were missing their homeland. Herbalist Susun Weed led her class in repeating it when they were stuck in a rainstorm on a mountain. It was first recorded with A Gentle Wind in 1984 on Two Hands Hold the Earth.”