Where would you like to go? Use this drop-down menu for easy navigation.
Return to Song List
TUNKASILA
(Grandfather)
Artist Note: This song is my personal prayer to the Creator.
The word Tunkasila means Grandfather. It also means "all that has come before".
I am honored that my Lakota friend has added his prayers to mine.
Tunkasila / Tunkasila
Hear me as I pray
Tunkasila / Tunkasila
May you guide each step on this earthly way
And as I walk...May I always remember / The trials of my sisters and brothers
And may I know them with a heart of compassion / May I know each one / Through your perfect love
Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Oh Tunkasila
Tunkasila / Tunkasila
Hear me as I pray
Tunkasila / Tunkasila
May you guide each step on this earthly way
And may I live / By the ways you have given
In service on this earth / Oh, may we walk as one
And may I know in my heart all my relations / May I know each one / Through your perfect love
Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Tunkasila, Oh Tunkasila
Lakota Prayer
Tunkasila, wowakan nan wowaste unyak'upiki hena wopila unkeniciyapelo
(Grandfather, the sacred and good things you have given to us. We say thank you for them)
Yuwanjila maunipi kte lo Tunkasila
(We walk as one, Grandfather)
Nan wowahwala, wotakuye, wicozani, nan wicouncage, Tunkasila, yuha naunjinpi ktelo. Tunkasila.
(...and tranquility, making of relations, welll-being, and the growth of all things, Grandfather...are what we will stand with Grandfather.)
Mitakuwe iyuha unsiwicunlapi nan, Tunkasila, iyuskinyan unipi ktelo, Tunkasila.
(All of my relations, we will love...and Grandfather, we will live joyfully. Grandfather.)
Back to lyric:
Tunkasila, Tunkasila / Hear me as I pray.
Music and Lyrics by Denean
(Lakota Prayer by Howard Bad Hand)
© Copyright 1993 Sacred Earth Music, BMI
All Rights Reserved
Return to Song List
Where would you like to go? Use this drop-down menu for easy navigation.
"The love of virtue is the root of all good." (Denean)
DENEAN™ Official Website
Denean/Woo Way Intuitive Healing Arts
™
Copyright 2005 All Rights Reserved
Reikidama™ is a trademark of Denean/Woo Way Intuitive Healing Arts
