Roots

The seed for this song came to me while driving yesterday, and hearing news reports of more intervention by the "Christian" far right banning books from classrooms, media centers and schools as a whole, proposing bills to force bookstores to pull content that some disagree with, and pushing further and further into the direction of a single religion nation, regardless of what others believe or don't.  

When I got up this morning, the idea had percolated in my skull, and this is the result.

FAWM 2023

Other Faiths, Other Ways

Collaboration with Stuart Benbow
FAWM 2015
This is a demo - really pleased with this song.  International collaboration.  I wrote the lyrics, Stuart did the music and singing.  A great effort. I personally find it a little slow at the end, but again, you can get the gist of it.  

Lyrics below:
Detroit 
(C) Lyrics by Christine M Kerr / Music: Stuart Benbow 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 

VERSE
Take a walk with me in dying town
Under the streets of grey are roads of gold
If you listen hard you can hear the sound 
Of greasy palms buying souls

No more cars pollute the air
Empty houses everywhere
Visit 8 mile if you dare
No one cares .....

CHORUS
If Detroit's burning 
If Detroit's hurting
If Detroit's dy-ing
If Detroit's healing
If Detroit's believing 
If Detroit's figh-ting
Ohhh ohh oh 

VERSE
'nother death on the front page
The Devil waits at St. Paul's door
Smiles at the brewing rage
Laughs as she adds fuel to the floor

Accusations all begin
Cos of th'colour of our skins
And Everybody wants to win
But no one cares .....

CHORUS
If Detroit's burning 
If Detroit's hurting
If Detroit's dy-ing
If Detroit's healing
If Detroit's believing 
If Detroit's figh-ting
Ohhh ohh oh 

VERSE
Gonna walk myself to Pittsburgh
Save all the dough I can
Gonna drive back to Detroit
Help this city start again 

We won't roll over
Got broad shoulders 
Wiser and Older
And no one cares 

CHORUS
If Detroit's burning 
If Detroit's hurting
If Detroit's dy-ing
If Detroit's healing
If Detroit's believing 
If Detroit's figh-ting
Ohhh ohh oh 

There's still some hope in me x3
While I breathe

NOTE - IMAGE USED WITHOUT PERMISSION - FROM 
http://alphamom.com/family-fun/activities/50-things-to-do-with-kids-around-detroit-before-they-grow-up/

Detroit

This is a cover of Little Do You Know with Am I Wrong in the background

Little Do You Know/Am I Wrong

Blending the heart of country, story telling of folk, and energy of pop, crafting songs with an americana vibe all his own.  Life, his muse, music, his canvas.

Other Faiths, Other Ways

Stuart Benbow Music

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