Maria Sabina

from Meridian by Miles Gannett

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Written by Miles Gannett

lyrics

Maria Sabina was a wise woman from Oaxaca.
She sang to the Saint Children;
they spoke through her in the Velada.
Maria Sabina.

When she was a girl, only six years,
Maria took the mushrooms
growing in the woods near her childhood home.
Maria took the mushrooms.
Maria Sabina.

Maria took the mushrooms, and they took her by the hand
to a world where everything is known.
They helped her understand
when she came to the table of the Principal Ones,
where lay the Book of Wisdom and Language she gazed upon.

Gordon Wasson sought a Wise One
wise in the way of the sacred mushrooms.
Flown from New York City to Oaxaca,
Gordon Wasson found Maria.
Maria Sabina.

Maria was a martyr for psychedelic culture.
Police arrested her for dealing when hippies flew like vultures.
Maria didn’t ask for it, but the mushrooms brought her fame;
yet she stayed poor, and she suffered so some others could profit from her name.

Undercover CIA man infiltrated the Velada,
but he couldn’t stand the Children,
got no intel for MK-ULTRA.
Undercover CIA man.

Maria was a martyr for someone else’s cult.
Her house was razed; she was ostracized; it was Gordon Wasson’s fault.
Maria didn’t ask for it, but the mushrooms brought her fame;
yet she stayed poor, and she suffered so some others could profit from her name.

Maria Sabina—
Wise woman—
Mazatec woman—
Maria Sabina—
Remember Maria.

credits

from Meridian, released April 16, 2021
Miles Gannett – guitar and vocals
Sean P. Finn – fiddle, Hardanger viola, and trumpet
Eric Selby – drums and percussion
Joe Martone – upright bass
Dave Hadley – pedal steel
Ron Stewart – mandolin

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Miles Gannett Baltimore, Maryland

Miles Gannett doesn’t sit still creatively. The Louisiana native, who now calls Maryland home, hears the seamless character of all music, blending and balancing strains of bluegrass with psychedelic folk textures, classic country phrasing with the propulsive notes of acid rock, and earthy blues with spectral ambience. ... more

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