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”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"
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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
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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,… '
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'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?
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'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.'
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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