Navajo Lullaby
Navajo Lullaby. A traditional song of the Navajo (Diné) people, reflecting a deep connection to family, the land, and tradition. Dine, the Navajo people’s own name for themselves, simply means “the people,” and during the Second World War, Navajo code talkers developed a code based on their language that the U.S. military used in the Pacific and that was never broken by enemy forces, a contribution now honored as one of the most remarkable code-communication achievements in military history. Here you will find the meaning and guitar chords.
Hum & play
A gentle chant on soft syllables — hum it slowly over the two chords below, around and around.
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Chant — soft vocables
Chords — guitar & piano
A clean, printable PDF of the chords on this page. Free for members — sign in to download.
The story
Indigenous lullabies are part of a millennia-old oral heritage. The arrangement presented here is an original reworking, intended as a respectful tribute to the beauty and spirituality of these cultures.
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- A traditional song of an Indigenous people. Songs like this belong to their communities, and we share it with respect.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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