Don Paul, vocal, bodhran, shakers
Kidd Jordan, tenor saxophone
Morikeba Kouyaté, kora
lyrics
Sydney Has a Plenty to Show
Sydney has a plenty to show
Her eyes warmly sparkle.
Her walk slinks and wobbles.
She got early warning.
She's not so short.
This girl gussies up--
Dresses fine on the cheap--
Flaunts like an old star--
Devours junk with relish--
Like she mocks stiff forms.
Sydney had to be tough.
Her family went through changes.
"We were treated
Like poor White trash,"
She says still. "It was always them or us."
Her mother was a beautiful addict,
Her family was "a castle",
And so Sydney's head turns down,
Her lip hunches and her body squares,
Ready to fight for pride against shame.
Without that past,
Though, Mother telling how
The poor are not to blame,
Sydney might not flinch so
At animals' pain, exclaim in accents
With her friends, bring flowers into homes,
Wear colors like Matisse's,
Kick bare feet when she laughs,
Hug and rock you like a river.
credits
from Women Center Earth, Sea, and Sky,
released January 18, 2016
Recorded at Marigny Studio in New Orleans on July 24, 2014 with Rick G. Nelson as engineer. Mixed by Don Paul and Rick G. Nelson in August 2014. Mastered by Don Paul in November 2015.
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