Swamp Witch by Raby (Official Music Video)

Swamp Witch - Written, Recorded and Produced by Raby http://rabymusic.com/
Banjo and Mandolin by Hamp Brockman
Mixing by Jon Margulies (Hobotech)
http://hobo-tech.com/
Mastering by Sean Patrick Maher

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Directed and Edited: Nils Hoover
http://nils.tv

Co-Directed and Camera: Ben Lindesmith
https://vimeo.com/zanzibarrecords

Lighting and Photography: Maja Buck
https://www.majabuck.com/

The following clips were used and are licensed using creative commons:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
https://vimeo.com/124165841 - The Full Moon rising by William Phelps
https://vimeo.com/161242709 - CRAWLER | Shroomlapses by Michael Pisano
   • 2015 06 26 Water MOCCASIN   - 2015 06 26 Water MOCCASIN by
T-Ozzy Czernik

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This eco-magic, performance ritual was conducted in my hometown, Port O'Connor, Texas, beneath the lunar eclipse in Pisces, September 2016. I produced this song in an effort to inspire compassion and healing for the most bio-diverse region in the U.S., the Texas Gulf Coast. The Lavaca Bay, Matagorda Bay, and San Antonio Bays are fatally threatened by the production practices of Formosa Plastics, Dow Chemical and Ineos Nitriles.

There are many other petrochemical plants lining "chemical row" that threaten our rich estuary ecosystems. These factories are committing ecocide. They fly under the radar because they set up shop in rural counties in order to become "mega-employers" which empowers them to buy-out government officials.

Here's one of many articles on Formosa Plastic's obscene production practices: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news...

The best and brightest action I'd like to propose is to support mycological remediation and bioremediation efforts along the Gulf Coast and other major rivers.
http://www.microsorb.com/
http://bioworldusa.com/

Support your local Mycology Remediation and Bioremediation Groups:
https://www.ecology-action.org/home/
http://www.mycoalliance.com/
  / gulfcoastmushrooms  

Support wetland conservation efforts where they are most needed, especially in Texas:
http://www.sabaypartnership.org/suppo...

Write your local river authority and propose guerilla log dam inoculation of remediating mushrooms.

And write to the EPA requesting they refine bioremediation procedures for oil clean up and pesticide clean up to include mushrooms: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/...

Lastly, if you care about something so deeply, it could bring you to tears, harness the power of your compassion to inspire others to join your heart song.

There are tremendous ecocides and losses occurring at an exponential rate. This is an undeniable fact. We must pray. We must pray as a collective. We must share our passion. We must take action. Embrace your magic. Compassionately connect to your source and allow yourself to be moved into a vulnerable space of grieving, loving power. Blessings and rich lessons.

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Lyrics:

A puffball ghost
says he loves her the most,
And the mocassins wind wind wind wind 'round.
Come to her orgy.
Heavens know the sorcery.
Who are you healing now?
Who is it now?

Swamp Witch, Swamp Witch LeeleeeLie.
Pool the soil and make your Right.
Are you goin' home in the night?
Soggy loam for tadpole eyes.

You know the ball moss breeds
on the weepin' cypress trees,
And they're drinkin' up the streams
through their knees.
They please her
dirty southern moon
with mushy-mushyroom.
The visions they consume.
She thanks the banks because they're
brimming up.
Muddy water fill your cup and now it
lingers low.
The fog is on a role
so she can milk the steam
and bottle up your dreams
and sell them whole.

Swamp Witch, Swamp Witch LeeleeeLie.
Pool the soil and make your Right.
Are you goin' home in the night?
Soggy loam for tadpole eyes.

Swamp Witch, Swamp Witch easy lie.
Ocean singer, woo your tide.
Hold your rosy feathers high.
Now your leaning lefty side.

"Save my life!"
Says the soil it's been toiling with poisons.
"Save my life
from the demons that haunt me, OH!
Save my life!"
The cetaceans are racin' the time.
Your voices will keep it in line.
The chorus will sing it alive!

Bad witch, bad witch.
Itchy scratch that itch and rule the
left-hand. Bogland
sees your plan to make the water clean.
"La la LEE" Sing the salty stream.

Swamp Witch, Swamp Witch LeeleeeLie.
Pool the soil and make your Right.
Are you goin' home in the night?
Soggy loam for tadpole eyes.

Swamp Witch, Swamp Witch easy lie.
Ocean singer, woo your tide.
Hold your rosy feathers high.
Now your leaning lefty side.