Songs in the Key of Osho

Based on a hard-copy project originally compiled in Vancouver in 1999, the first part of this site holds the words and chords to over 100 songs written by Osho's lovers, dedicated to him and his vision. Where known, the vintage and artist / author are indicated, with a link to their site. A major addition to the site, more or less complete as of Feb 2012, is sheet music and chords for another fifty songs from the Orange Songbook, from Pune One. See below for details and a link; and more: the beginning of  another new collection from the Ranch era.

The best all-round site to connect with Osho's musicians is Otoons Music, a subsite of Devakrishna's massive project, Otoons. He has links to the musicians' own sites and has created pages to celebrate those who don't have sites, with links to buy CDs. Very thorough! A few more musicians are listed, with bios and links, at Sannyas Musicians, and a more commercial roster, with buy-CD links is at Prabhu Music. And to hear some of these songs and find out more interesting factoids, check out Meditation and More. And a correspondent has kindly supplied a beautiful quote from Osho on the importance of music, here.

Should any inaccuracies exist, or if you have other songs or information to add, please contact me at sarlo at telus dot net. Please note that this email address has been spelled out to reduce spam arising from automated email harvesters. When writing, change the "_at_" manually to "@" and "_dot_" to "." This is not difficult :-)

Chord notation used is as explained below. Bracketed numbers refer to notes in the major scale, flatted or sharped as noted. Also please be aware that the chords may not appear exactly in the right place because of the difficulty of exact placement using a text-only table format, and the different ways tables and fonts are displayed by different browsers. I use Arial font for the songs, which you should install if you don't have it (unlikely). I have learned since writing the above that a fixed-width font such as Courier will take care of all spacing issues but it looks weird so i'll stick with the problems noted, never mind the work a change would entail :-)

And as far as browsers are concerned, the chords get most out of line with their words in Netscape. With Firefox, Opera and IE, they are close enough. Other browsers i dunno.

And a note about vintages: Pune 1 = 1974-81, Ranch = 81-85, Pune 2 = 87-90, Pune 3 = 90+.

And the major addition mentioned above? A correspondent has kindly sent scans of pages from an old Pune One songbook, The Orange Songbook. This original source material is an invaluable adjunct to what i have managed to put together, having not only words and chords to many Pune One songs (with some differences from my versions, ie beyond key change / transpositions) but also sheet music, so even the melody does not need to be known to sing it. This is a fabulous bit of sannyas history / archival material, and i am fortunate to be able to share it here. All but nine of these songs are ones i have not included before, so all in all a wealth of new material. Other archival material may also be coming, on a somewhat random basis. Stay tuned.

And in fact, there is already in Feb 2012 the beginning of a new project, which i'm calling The Ranch Songbook. No such animal actually ever existed, but at festivals at the Oregon Ranch, programmes were handed out with words to the songs that were going to be sung in darshan/satsang. My correspondent has sent scans of four of these programmes. Many of the songs are words-only but for a goodly number the melody is indicated in a unique way which i have transcribed. And as with the Orange Songboook, there is some duplication but lots of songs that are new here, with origins in both the Ranch and Pune One eras. Check it out.

Okay! On with the show here!