My Desert Home at Eastside Community Gardens
This song circle will feature special guests The Shavings who will teach us a couple of their rollicking sea shanties in the lead up to their Shanty Night 14th November
Song List
Ngura Watjilpa by Frank Yamma - a song in Pitjantjatjara about longing for home.
Ngura watjilpa, ngura wiruntai, nyinaraya, kulinyanai, wampa kuya.
Ngura wiruntai, ngura watjilpa, nyinaraya, kulinanaie, wampa kuya.
Go Down Deep by Laurence Cole - an uplifting three-part call to action.
You want to get up to the joy, you got to go down deep, so go down, go down, go down.
The illness seeks the medicine, so go-wo-down.
We can do this! We will rise!
One Day at a Time by Penny Stone
Parts 1 & 2: One day at a time x 4
Parts 3 & 4: Keep it simple x 4
Grasshopper Jumping - an original composition, dedicated to buffel busters, with body percussion and three layered countermelodies.
Low: Long grass, grasshopper jumping / long grass, grasshopper leaping / long grass, grasshopper flying / up to reach the sky
Middle: Lo-o-ong grass, grasshopper x 3 / up to reach the sky
High: When the world is closing in, it’s taken over / by a hungry thirsty weed that covers the earth’s skin / when you find it hard to breathe, you’re feeling smothered / leap up to reach the sky