Fergus (our Celtic Roots alter ego)
and Federico (our Latin Roots alter ego)
often get asked what songs we play,
so here's the sort of official 2026 playlist!

When we are busking to let Beauty Save the World, we grow our playlists in various ways. Some songs move us deeply. Others are just fun.

Bottom line: We play things that give us a little joy and hope and pray that it is contagious.

Here are the songs in the order we typically play them. Some of them have lyrics which are posted below.

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Little Light of Love - Eric Serra - This is the song we have playing during our set up. From one of our favorite movies "The Fifth Element". Lyrics below.
Liathach - Jo Hamilton - A poignant, slow song of longing. Liathach is one of the oldest mountains on earth found in Scotland. Lyrics below. Here's an explanation of why we lead with this beautiful song.
Work Song - Cannonball Adderly - A nice warm up jazz tune by one of our favorite saxophonists.
Pick Up the Pieces - Candy Dulfer - We've loved this song since the first time we heard it and Candy has the best version we've ever encountered. So much joy!
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder - What's not to love about this joyful celebration of music. Thank you Stevie for being a gift to us all. Lyrics below.
The Lonely Shepherd - Zamfir - We play this haunting pan flute melody from the Kill Bill soundtrack in the background as we switch from playing alto sax to the Aerophone wind synthesizer. We jam along with it sometimes with the rich pan flute voice time permitting.
March from Oscar and Malvina - The Chieftains - This is a traditional Irish march that we lay down a simple drum loop for and play over it with tin whistle, fiddle and uilleann pipes consecutively. Definitely a favorite of farmer Fergus.
Special Stage - Sonic Team - Remember the OG 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis? There was a special stage you could go to and just collect rings in a crazy tunnel and this is the song from that. The joy of running as fast as you can is in this mix somehow. We lay down a bass loop and play a pretty cool sounding wind synth over it.
Super Mario Brothers Theme - Boogie Heights - We've always wanted to learn and play this happy tune... so we did. We found a cool voice for it on the Aerophone that makes it even more fun.
Kells Opening Theme - Iona - This haunting tune is full of mystery and wonder. Crafted by the Irish band Iona in 1992, their entire album highlights the amazing beauty of the Book of Kells, a 1200 year old illuminated manuscript of the gospels still preserved at Trinity College in Dublin. We were privileged to see it in person once. We made a video with this song with high resolution imagery of the details of some of the pages of the manuscript that you can watch here. Lyrics below.
Aisling's Song - The Secret of Kells - A beautiful and haunting song a monk wrote about his cat 'Pangur Ban' is embedded in this enchanting and award winning animated film. Do yourself a favor and watch it sometime. We play it solo with the pan flute voice. Lyrics below.
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - Liturgy of St. James 4th Century Hymn - When we heard Aly Aleigha's version of this we were captivated. It weaved itself neatly into place right after Pangur Ban and has stayed there as part of our pan flute set. Lyrics Below.
Be Thou My Vision - Traditionally attributed to St. Patrick - Seems to go with the flow and fit nicely after the previous song in the pan flute set. Sometimes we belt out a verse or two with a bit of an Americanized Irish lilt. Lyrics below.
Lord It Belongs Not to My Care - Richard Baxter - We fell in love with this Englishman's hymn a few years back. It seems to have more of an Irish lilt so Fergus insisted it come right after St. Patrick's tune in the pan flute set. We belt out a verse or two of this one at times as well. Lyrics below.
The Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini - Lightening up the mood, we bust out the rather convincing Tenor Sax voice on our Aerophone (hey we can't carry around the entire sax family in our little wagon, right?) for this tune which we've loved from our childhood... yeah we're that old that we watched the original animated Pink Panther cartoons on Saturday mornings and loved them.
Tequila - The Champs - A silly, fun drinking song that fits nicely into the tenor sax set.
Yakety Sax - Boots Randolph - Most people know it as the Benny Hill theme, but this is the song we saw on Hee-Haw as a kid that inspired us to want to play the sax. Didn't actually learn to play it until age 60, but hey, who's counting years anyway?! See Boots play it like we saw it way back in the day here.
Klayman Shuffle - Terry S. Taylor - From our most beloved video game ever, a point and click claymation adventure called 'The Neverhood'. This game has a cult following and our family was caught up in the fun of it from its first release in 1995. We made our own version of the song with the rich bass clarinet voice we found on the Aerophone.
Rock N' Roll Dixie - Terry S. Taylor - Another silly and fun Neverhood tune. For this one we break out the most excellent bari sax voice on the Aerophone. Too much fun!!
Let's Get Funky - Home Grown by Fergus and Federico - We were just messing about with the wonderful bari sax voice on our Aerophone and this funky bass line emerged. We looped it and took out our real live alto and jammed over the top of it and this was the result.
Cannonball - Cannonball Adderly - Now we're back to the real alto sax and we play our favorite sax man's signature tune albeit about half the speed he did... That's ok, more time to savor the fun.
Sign of the Times - Harry Styles - Ok, we admit we are a little obsessed with this song ever since we discovered it embedded in one our favorite sci-fi movies 'Project Hail Mary'. To us it carries that same vibe of longing that you find in songs like U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. That's why we loved the movie and the song... apocalyptic but hopeful... not a common combination these days. The music video is stunning. Lyrics below.
Blackbird - Paul McCartney - Paul wrote this song in 1968 to encourage Black women facing systemic racism during the American Civil Rights Movement. We picked the song because it is a nice, calming closing tune before we knew about the deeper meanings of the song which makes us love it all the more.
Song for Hal - U2 - One of the best songs written by U2 in decades from the best EP they've ever released. This one plays in the background while we are packing up our gear.

Our romp through this set usually takes between sixty and ninety minutes.

Let the wild rumpus begin!

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Lyrics

Little Light of Love

Eric Serra

From a Little Light Of Love

I was born and in my cry, my cry

Was a Little Light Of Love

For the honoring of life

And the pharons of my soul

Is this light of love

Precious Little Light Of Love

There's a candle burning on

In the breezy shades of night

I keep up my faith and underset my hope

To call the realm of light

A treasure

Your shiver

In the middle of the shady desert

Brings on a field of light

In a light of love

Fairy light of love

Only one religion

Will lead us to the love we aim for

Over the dark illusions

Of the warring nations

And when the figure leads to power

The destruction glorified higher

And when the war is nearly over

How come the leader's held in highest honors

Would you die

For their lie

The greedy hunting cry

You rely

On your light

Little loving light

A little light of sole religion

Well a Little Light Of Love

A little light of soaring freedom

Just a Little Light Of Love

A little light of sole religion

Take this Little Light Of Love

A Little Light Of Love and freedom

Take me

A little light of soul religion

A Little Light Of Love and freedom

Liathach

Jo Hamilton

If I only could let you be

If I only could let you breath

I would never show my face here

If only I could see clear

I will one day when it's all gone

I hope to catch the right way

Before it's all gone wrong

Wishful thinking

There's more than that

There's understanding

But mine's not here

But I can feel it near

You're my Liathach

You're my boundless

You're my Liathach

You're my boundless

Coming to the time of give and take

I'm so full, but what if I break?

Wishful thinking

More is needed

Mind is off again

Lasso it near or it will never hear

You're my Liathach

You're my boundless

You're my Liathach

You're my boundless

You're the world around me

Sir Duke

Stevie Wonder

Music is a world within itself

With a language we all understand

With an equal opportunity

For all to sing, dance and clap their hands

But just because a record has a groove

Don't make it in the groove

But you can tell right away at letter A

When the people start to move

They can feel it all over

But they can feel it all over people

They can feel it all over

They can feel it all over people, no, yeah

Music knows that it is and always will

Be one of the things that life just won't quit

But here are some of music's pioneers

That time will not allow us to forget now

For there's Basie, Miller, Satchmo

And the king of all, Sir Duke

And with a voice like Ella's ringing out

There's no way the band could lose

You can feel it all over

You can feel it all over people

...

I can feel it all, all, all-all-all over now people

Can't you feel it all over?

Come on, let's feel it all over people

You can feel it all over

Everybody all over people, go

Kells Opening Theme

Iona

I stand on ground

I've walked before

To seek the way

And watch the moon rise into night

Illuminating with its light

My thoughts they turn in time and place

Illuminated Word of grace

Where I will find the way divine

A throne in sight that blazes like eternal dawn

The mystery of Father, Spirit and the Son

The Three in One

And precious stones of colours bright

Eagle and calf, lion and man

Do meet around the throne of light

In colours rich that last through time

In patterns of the Spirit's mind

Illuminated Word divine

I stand on ground I've walked before

To seek the way

Aislings's Song

The Secret of Kells

You must go where I cannot,

Pangur Bán, Pangur Bán

There is no substance to this life

This world is but a vapor,

And we will only be alive

For a short time.

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Liturgy of St. James

Let all mortal flesh keep silence,

and with fear and trembling stand;

ponder nothing earthly minded,

for, with blessing in His hand,

Christ our God to earth descendeth,

our full homage to demand.

King of kings, yet born of Mary,

as of old on earth He stood,

Lord of lords, in human vesture,

in the body and the blood.

He will give to all the faithful

His own self for heav'nly food.

Rank on rank the host of heaven

spreads its vanguard on the way,

as the Light of light descendeth

from the realms of endless day,

that the pow'rs of hell may vanish

as the darkness clears away.

At His feet the six-winged seraph,

cherubim with sleepless eye,

veil their faces to the Presence,

as with ceaseless voice they cry,

“Alleluia, alleluia,

alleluia, Lord Most High!”

Be Thou My Vision

Traditional Irish

attributed to St. Patrick

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;

Naught be all else to me save that thou art.

Thou my best thought by day and by night;

Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true Word;

I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord.

Thou my great Father, I thy dear child;

Thou in me dwelling, with thee reconciled.

Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;

Be thou my dignity, thou my delight.

Thou my soul's shelter, thou my high tow'r;

Raise thou me Heav'nward, O Pow'r of my pow'r.

Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise;

Thou mine inheritance, now and always.

Thou and thou only, first in my heart,

High King of Heaven, my treasure thou art.

High King of Heaven, my victory won,

May I reach Heaven's joys, O bright Heav'ns Sun!

Heart of my heart, whatever befall,

Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

Lord It Belongs Not to My Care

Richard Baxter

Lord, it belongs not to my care

Whether I die or live;

To love and serve Thee is my share,

And this Thy grace must give.

If life be long, I will be glad,

That I may long obey;

If short, yet why should I be sad;

To welcome endless day?

Christ leads me thru' no darker rooms

Than he went thru' before;

He who into God's kingdom comes

Must enter by his door.

Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet

Thy blessed face to see,

For if thy work on Earth be sweet,

What will thy glory be?

My knowledge of that life is small;

The eye of faith is dim,

But 'tis enough that Christ knows all,

And I shall be with him.

Sign of the Times

Harry Styles

Just stop your crying

It's a sign of the times

Welcome to the final show

Hope you're wearing your best clothes

You can't bribe the door on your way to the sky

You look pretty good down here

But you ain't really good

If we never learn, we been here before

Why are we always stuck and running from

The bullets?

The bullets

We never learn, we been here before

Why are we always stuck and running from

Your bullets?

The bullets

Just stop your crying

It's a sign of the times

We gotta get away from here

Just stop your crying

It'll be alright

They told me that the end is near

We gotta get away from here

Just stop your crying

Have the time of your life

Breaking through the atmosphere

And things are pretty good from here

Remember everything will be alright

We can meet again somewhere

Somewhere far away from here

We never learn, we been here before

Why are we always stuck and running from

The bullets?

The bullets

We never learn, we been here before

Why are we always stuck and running from

The bullets?

The bullets

Just stop your crying

It's a sign of the times

We gotta get away from here

Stop your crying

Baby, it'll be alright

They told me that the end is near

We gotta get away from here

We never learn, we been here before

Why are we always stuck and running from

Your bullets?

The bullets

We never learn, we been here before

Why are we always stuck and running from

Your bullets?

The bullets

We don't talk enough

We should open up

Before it's all too much

Will we ever learn?

We've been here before

It's just what we know

Stop your crying, baby

It's a sign of the times

We gotta get away

We got to get away

We got to, we got to, away

Blackbird

Paul McCartney

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird, fly

Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird, fly

Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Song for Hal

Did you hear "Forever"?

Was it playing soft and low?

It's not a song you wanna hear

If you're not ready to go

You're not alone in the bright blue air

Not alone if there's no one there at all

You're not alone if your voice is unheard

Not alone the song of the mockingbird don't last long

They appear and then they're gone

I swear where music is made

You'll be there

And as the morning light

Stretches out across the floor

Can't believe it's another day

And life goes on like it did before

You're not alone when you're on your knees

Not alone if no one sees you fall

You never took a curtain call

And you are not alone when you close your eyes

And slip into a dream that takes you to the other side

Of the songs in your head

Dizzy as a musical

Stupid songs you can't forget

Beyond pretty, beyond beautiful

Wherever the strange is on parade

Wherever the music is made

You'll be there

Did you know he is close to God

Who makes his old friends laugh?

Did you know Hal the magician?

I watched him disappear from a photograph

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