This is the story. The track numbers go with the ipod or mp3 tracks .

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 Prelude Musicnarrator/Once upon a time, in the half light between night and day, between shadow and light, a wise elder dreamed a tale of a strange, yet familiar land, drifting into sleep and out into the world….

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 The land narr/ in the early light of morning there appeared a  magnificent visionsinger/ There is a land a beautiful a wondrous land full of joy and song.(orchestral music describes this land 2min)

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 sings/ You must love this land it takes care of all a person could ever want. It gives you food , it gives you soft to grass to lie  in the sun,  warm and happy. You are part of the world it is part of you.

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 Beasts of the landAll the beasts of the land are part of the world ,you need to know their ways.

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birdssings/Over the land the birds sing.Every day brings another gift of life..

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 Glacierssings/Great glaciers reach the sky and feed the land with their sweet waters.

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 (minor)sings/When it storms it leaves the land even more beautiful than before so raise your faces to the rain.

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Great RiversSings/great rivers rush through lush green forests,fat fish fill the streams, birds fill the air and all the land is in harmony.

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narrator/ The people were happy in this land because they knew that everything needed every other thing, even the people in order to be complete. They knew this because they could hear the One song, the same song in everything. In every rock and stream and fish in every deer and little child and old person.You can hear it too, if you listen carefully to the sound of the winter wind through the trees, the sound of the water against the side of the boat.If you listen carefully and with an open heart then you will hear this this is the sound of the one song...

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sings/

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narrator/At first the people were happy as they went about their lives they could always hear the song happily in the background.Gradually life got busier and busier, they were building things working at their machines hammering and  sawing but as they worked they could still hear the song. But everything kept getting faster and more complicated . After a while the song began to change it was not as happy anymore, so the people stopped listening, it was quite hard to hear by now anyway.

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narrator/Until one day when the people opened their windows instead of the sweet sound of the song they heard only this.

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narrator/They went about their lives but something was missing the sky was less blue the  was water bitter in their mouths, they did not know it but the song was gone.

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narrator/sea birds cries now metallic and winter steeped,  hover over the firmaments grayed and heavy brow and call down discordant upon the seas steady encroachment.sings/A land without song a land with out meaning a cold and bitter prison to hold the souls of man. I remember when the air was light, the water clear and sweet, all the land was full of promise. oh where has it gone?

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Without the knowledge of the song darkness and chaos descended upon the land.

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narr/the people gathered, how can we make things as they used to be? we must look amongst the people who have lived here the longest and ask what has changed so they called for the oldest and wisest elder.sings/there is a song that binds us to the land a song that binds and so makes us free.narr/ what must we do then?  they people asked, to make things as they once were.sings/you must bring back the song. bring back the song and all will be well the land will be as it once  was.

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narr/Be careful said the elder for the one song has many voices you must learn to recognize the true song from the false

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So off they marched to find the song.

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narr/they came to a dark and swampy forest and could not pass.

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narr/it seemed like there was no way past when suddenly in a swirl of leaves the elder appeared to them.There are 3 paths through the forest but only one is safe. you must listen for the path that sings the one song and take only it.

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the 1st path was through the reeds that sang enticingly....all that choose it perished

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the 2nd path was through the rocks that tempted with their noble song.. all that choose it perished

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the 3rd path was harder to see harder to hear... but all that choose it were guided through the forest

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so through the forest they went following the song

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 narr/finally they were through, open sky  their heads

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Gradually the forest receded into the distance as they marched on to search for the song

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What will we encounter next they wondered and where is the song? then, looming before them

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Mountains!Narr/ floating in the mist the voice of the elder  came to themsings/older  than any man they have sung the song and span Ages, eons Older than time it calls you. listen and you will be guided through.

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and there it was echoing from peak to peak

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Past great cliffs and falling rocks they followed the song

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They marched on until they came to a roaring river that blocked their passage.

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As they sat beside the river exhausted the elder appeared to them this time as a single drop of water.As they peered closer at the drop of water they saw that inscribed upon it's surface in very very small print and in the hand writing of the elder this text,sings/ The least amongst you know they are the greatest. the greatest thing is the smallest thing and they can never be apart. Now think how you are very small and how the world is big.

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narr/and with the knowledge that the huge river was just made of single  drops of water of water they were able to follow it as the single drops became a creek a stream a river out past the rapids and into the great wide sea.

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 Riverriver fugue.

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narr/at last after many years they reached the ends of the earthtired and dispirited they still ha

d not found the song

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as they drew their last breaths the elder appeared to them a final time, in the form of an ancient cedar.as they listened the creaking of its branches in the wind the sound of the water dripping from it's branches they at last came to realize what they had always known…….and as their lips parted the song that they had always carried with them was released into the world.

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sings/ alas life must sometimes leave to return on the breeze of a summers day, always part of the world.

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Narr/and so with the knowledge of the song again in the world, the world began to rebuild itselfsings/ deep in the earth you can hear it start , like the sound like the beat of a mighty heart. above in the woods and in the streams the world breaths her song on all living things. All the world it is made of song, listen and you will hear how its all begun.

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 The world rebuilds

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Nar/and our travelers  well. ….the wind picked them up and carried them back home.

Track 41 The wind

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narr/ Home at last!

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Narr/dawn breaks  over the land...they saw that the land was at peace and in harmony and would always be so as long as people remembered the song and could hold it in their hearts then everything would be alright no matter how complicated and difficult things became.listen here is the song can you sing it?no matter what………………..

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and so ends our tale

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The end