One Voice

Ruth Moody wrote it. American Songwriter reports she wrote the words in her tent at about 2 a.m. by flashlight after a late-night backstage jam at a camping folk festival, and that it arrived almost whole; she calls it a very serious and emotional moment, her way of processing. It is a three-part acoustic hymn built by vocal layering, with a message of coming together and peace, which she said became doubly important during COVID-19. In a 2010 interview on the band's site she said she wrote it to be unifying, with the Jennys in mind: we're all coming from the same place. A band article called it the key song in the repertoire, sung a cappella onstage.

It is track one of 40 Days at 3:21, and also appears on Putumayo's Women of the World Acoustic (2007) and Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House. Setlist.fm counts 41 performances in 82 setlists. They reportedly played it at Newport Folk in 2011, though that page did not load for us. An SMU choirs video of it appeared in January 2021. We found no chart or video information for the studio recording.