Sacred Rainbow Nation Songs of Light, Peace and Love · Core 100

Ide Were

key G minor on source songbook key E minor tempo ≈172 chords Em D C G Bm

A traditional Yoruba chant to Ochún, the goddess of love and the fresh waters — it sings of a necklace given as a symbol of initiation into love, an explanation many of the songbooks print beneath the words. It is one of the most widely printed songs in the whole collection, and most books point to the recording by Deva Premal, whose singing the melody here follows: Deva Premal — Idé Weré Weré.

Melody

Words & chords — as printed in the songbook

Em D

Ide were were nita oshun

Em

Ide were were

D

Ide were were nita oshun

Em

Ide were were nita ya

C D

Ocha kiniba nita oshun

G C

Cheke cheke cheke

D

Nita ya

Bm (B7)

Ide were were

as printed in Rainbow Caravan #245 p.158; also Canciones, Alli Ruhi,

Sound of The Heart p.108, Icaros, MasterMantra (capo 2), Songs of Light,

Mantra-Sammlung Rafael (Am G Fmaj7) and a dozen more books