We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

School Everywhere! Lagniappe for Lessons in Songs & Poems

by John Sinclair, Cole Williams, William Blake, Johann Goethe, Maryse Philippe Déjean, Don Paul

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
”We Just Change the Beat” for Johnny Evans & Martin Gross ”You know,” Willie Dixon says, ”when you go to changin’ beats in music, you change the whole style. The difference in blues or rock & roll or jazz is the beat. The beat actually changes the whole entire style.” The beat actually changes the whole en- tire style. Where you put that beat, be careful or you’ll change the whole change the whole change the whole entire when you go to changin’ beats you know you can change you can go to changin’ you can change the whole style" 2 Now Frank Frost of Lula, Mississippi put it like this. He says: ”In other words, we taking the down blues & bring it up tempo. I don’t know what you would call it. Just take the cotton-picking blues, I would say, & bring it up to modern music today. I guess that still be blues. The onliest difference between the cotton-pickinG blues & what we doing today is the tempo. . . . Let me see if I can give you something to remind you of back in those days”— [& he plays a few notes] ”Now that’s just the old, ordinary original way, you know. That’s just the cotton-picking blues that way. Then we change up just the tempo & the beat. That’s the dance tempo you hear now. Just something they can dance to these days. That’s the same blues. We just change the beat. It’s no different.” —Detroit March 21, 1982/ New Orleans December 7, 1995/March 5, 1998
2.
WADE IN THE WATER", traditional Spiritual, printed by John Wesley Work II and Frederick Work, 1901 in their book New Jubilee Songs bu the Fisk Kubiolee Singers. Likely sung by Harriet Tubman and others on the Underground Railroad that freed slaves in the U.S. before and during the United States' Civll War. Cole Williams-- "Oh, you gotta wade Ah, you got a wade Ay, in the water Wade in the water Children wade, in the water God's gonna trouble the water Who's that young girl dressed in red Wade in the water Must be the children that Moses led God's gonna trouble the water Wade in the water, wade in the water children Wade in the water, God's gonna trouble the water See that man all dressed in white God's gonna trouble the water He looks like one 'a them Israelites God 's gonna trouble the water And see that man all dressed in lace God 's gonna trouble the water He looks like a man that Moses led God's gonna trouble the water You gotta wade in the water, ... Wade in that water, children God 's troubling that water Look over yonder What do you see God 's going to trouble the water The Holy Ghost coming over me If you don't believe Just put me down in Jordan's sea You gotta wade in ... And wade in that== YOu got a wade God 's troublin' the water Cause God 's troublin' the water. Wade in the water,… '
3.
'THE TYGER' Tyger Tyger, burning bright,  In the forests of the night;  What immortal hand or eye,  Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.  Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain,  In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp,  Dare its deadly terrors clasp!  When the stars threw down their spears  And water'd heaven with their tears:  Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger Tyger burning bright,  In the forests of the night:  What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
4.
'FOUND' by Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Michael Hamburger 'Once in the forest I strolled content, To look for nothing My sole intent. I saw a flower, Shaded and shy, Shining like starlight, Bright as an eye. I went to pluck it; Gently it said: Must I be broken, Wilt and be dead? Then I dug it Out of the loam And to my garden Carried it home, There to replant it, Where no wind blows. More bright than ever It blooms and grows.'

about

The first set of 'Lagnaippe for Lessons' in the 'SCHOOL EVERYWHERE!' courses for first-year students in Haiti and elsewhere. The courses over 25 weeks and Modules aim to bring literacy in French, Kréyol, Engllish and Spanish to students. SCHOOL EVERYWHERE! and its Team are led by educator Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul in Port-au-Prince. SCHOOL EVERYWHERE! draws from Madame Paul's textook, Mon Livre Unique, that's printed in 110,000 copies for first-year students across Haiti.

The Team's aim is universal literacy in Haiti and elsewhere and Sticking Up For Children's and our contributing Performers' role is to support this aim.

More about SCHOOL EVERYWHERE! can be found at www.stickingupforchildren.com/school-everywhere

credits

released August 12, 2020

Recorded by John Sinclair and team in New Orleans during February 2001 and by Cole Williams, Maryse Philippe Déjean, and Don Paul in New Orleans during July and August 2020.

license

all rights reserved

tags

If you like School Everywhere! Lagniappe for Lessons in Songs & Poems, you may also like: