Name: I Gotta Right by Jenniferrrrrr
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Description: The Stooges covered by Apes-A-Poppin. 2003

ha ha. what the hell were we thinking? Still, pretty audacious. Post some our X stuff. 

Aish Tamid tune by Shefa Gold from Leviticus 6:6
Which Side Are You On by Florence Reece coming out of 1930s mine workers struggle in Kentucky
Mash Up by Ilana Lerman

Recorded at Boston Passover Action Prep Meeting 4/17/16

lyrics:
Aish tamid tukad al hamizbayach lo tichbeh

Which side are you on? Which side are you on?

Aish Tamid + Which Side Are You On

Olam Chesed Yibaneh - adapted from Rabbi Menachem Creditor, written after 9/11 
We will build this world with love      

Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016.

Olam Hesed Yibaneh

Aish Tamid - melody by Shefa Gold (Remix with Which Side are you On)
Which side are you on - by Florence Reece- activist and organizer, a poet and songwriter- in 1931.  It was intended specifically as a song to be sung by the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky.  It was revived during the Civil Rights movement, with verses changed and updated to fit the times. 

Aish tamid tukad al hamizbayach; lo tichbeh
Fire always shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out. (Leviticus 6:6)

Which Side are you On? Which Side are you On my people?
Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016

Aish Tamid

Courage - adapted from the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, sung as protesters were being taken to jail and as a way to learn people's’ names in the jail cells. 
Courage, my friend, you do not walk along. 
We will, walk with you, and sing your spirit home.

Courage

"We Rise" was inspired by the powerful, prayerful resistance Batya Levine witnessed and experienced at Standing Rock. This song is an attempt to remember and to hold that model of resistance in our hearts and in our minds. 

We Rise…  humbly hearted
Rise...   won’t be divided
Rise...     with spirit to guide us
Rise!
(Chorus) (x2)
In hope, in prayer, we find ourselves here
In hope, in prayer, we’re right here!
We Rise… all of the children
Rise...     elders with wisdom
Rise...     ancestors surround us
Rise!
(Chorus)
We Rise…   up from the wreckage
Rise...     with tears and with courage
Rise…    fighting for life
Rise!
(Chorus & Repeat verse 1)

More from Batya and Let My People Sing here: https://soundcloud.com/user-478813445

Voice Memos

We Rise

Melody by IfNotNow member Arielle Korman and her father, Jerome Korman. This English translation is by Arielle. 
Rabbi Hillel, Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Ancestors 1:14. 
?אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי? וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי? וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו, אֵימָתַי

Im ein ani li, mi li? 
Uchshe’ani l’atzmi ma ani? 
V’im lo achshav, ematai?
Im lo achshav, ematai?

If I am not for me, who will be? 
If I am just for me, what does that make me? 
And if not now, then when? 
If not now, then when

Im Lo Achshav / If Not Now

The Stooges covered by Apes-A-Poppin. 2003

I Gotta Right

And now for something a bit different: track 7 from my new album. Magic Blanket. Album art is an ink drawing by Eddie Rifkind.

Magic Blanket - SAMPLE

Album art is an ink drawing by Eddie Rifkind.

Medicine

Song number nine from my album, Shadows In Sand! Album art is an ink drawing by Eddie Rifkind.

Comfort Cage

Small Time, Hair, Lost Your Way and I Gotta Right are performed by Apes-A-Poppin. 

Apes-A-Poppin played together for about a year or two in DC in 2000-2002. 

Apes-A-Poppin: Mark Feehan (Marcus Antitonius), George Kelly, Robert Blunt, Jennifer Raviv.

I Gotta Right

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