Wild Rice Lullaby
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Wild Rice Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by manoomin, the wild rice harvested by the Ojibwe from the lakes of the Great Lakes region for centuries. Manoomin is still harvested much as it always was, from a canoe, using one stick to bend the stalks and another to gently knock the ripe grains loose into the boat — a slow, careful method passed down because the Ojibwe consider wild rice a sacred gift, not just a crop. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Wild Rice Lullaby” Means
The Ojibwe have harvested manoomin, wild rice, from the lakes of the Great Lakes region for centuries, gathering it by canoe in a tradition still practiced today. This original lullaby draws on those wild-rice and birchbark-canoe images of Ojibwe heritage.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- 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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