A poem by the late great American acclaimed poet; storyteller; fry cook; street-car conductor; professional dancer; prostitute and lesbian madam; film director; nightclub performer; civil rights activist; playwright; autobiographer and professor of American studies at Wake Forest University, Dr Maya Angelou, [Latter born Marguerite Annie Johnson].
The late Dr Maya Angelou, (1928 – 2014).
“Still I Rise”
You may write me down in history, With your bitter, twisted lies. You may tread me in the very dirt, But still, like dust, I rise.
Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk as if I have oil wells, Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I rise.
Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t take it so hard, ‘Just cause I laugh as if I have gold mines, Diggin’in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your lies, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But like life, I rise.
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise, That I dance as if I have diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise. Up from a past rooted in pain, I rise. I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling bearing in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak miraculously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave. And so, I rise.
Lyrics and Vocals: Australian pop singer and songwriter, Dean Lewis Grant Loaney, (Dean Lewis).
Early morning there’s a message on my phone. It’s my mother saying, “Darling, please come home”. I fear the worst, but how could you leave us all behind? There’s so much to say but there’s so little time, So how do I say goodbye. To someone who’s been with me for my whole damn life? You gave me my name and the colour of your eyes. I see your face when I look at mine, So how do I, how do I, how do I say goodbye? When I couldn’t, you always saw the best in me. Right or wrong, you were always on my side, But I’m scared of what life without you is like, And I saw the way she looked into your eyes, And I promise if you go, I will make sure she’s alright, So how do I say goodbye. To someone who’s been with me for my whole damn life? You gave me my name and the color of your eyes. I see your face when I look at mine. So how do I, how do I, how do I say goodbye? And there’s no way you could ever let me down. Gonna steal some time and start again. You’ll always be my closest friend, And someday we are gonna make it out. Just hold the light, just hold the light, So how do I say goodbye. To someone who’s been with me for my whole damn life? You gave me my name and the color of your eyes. I see your face when I look at mine. So how do I, how do I, how do I say goodbye? So how do I, how do I, how do I say goodbye?
Vocals: The magnificent voices of American country singer, songwriter and guitarist, Chris Stapleton, and his American singer, songwriter wife Morgane Stapleton(née Hayes), latter performing the harmony and duet vocals.
Amanda.
Lyrics: Retired American songwriter, the great Robert Lee McDill.
I’ve held it all in, God knows I’ve tried, It’s an awful awakenin’, In a country boy’s life. Look in the mirror, In total surprise, At the hair on my shoulders, And the age in my eyes. Amanda, light of my life, Fate should have made you a gentleman’s wife. Amanda, light of my life, Fate should have made you a gentleman’s wife. It’s a measure of people, Who don’t understand, The pleasures of life, In a Hillbilly band. Got my first guitar, When I was 14, Now, I’m pushing 40, And I’m still wearin’ jeans. Amanda, light of my life, Fate should have made you a gentleman’s wife. Amanda, light of my life, Fate should have made you a gentleman’s wife.
Lyrics and Vocals: American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist, the late Michael Joseph Jackson, (August 29th, 1958 – June 25th, 2009).
Heal The World.
There’s a place in your heart and I know that it is love, And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow, And if you really try, you’ll find there’s no need to cry, In this place you’ll feel, there’s no hurt or sorrow. There are ways to get there, if you care enough for the living, Make a little space, make a better place.
Chorus
Heal the world, make it a better place, For you and for me and the entire human race. There are people dying, if you care enough for the living, Make a better place, for you and for me.
If you want to know why there’s a love that cannot lie, Love is strong, it only cares of joyful giving, If we try, we shall see in this bliss we cannot feel, Fear or dread, we stop existing and start living, Then it feels that always a love’s enough for us growing, So make a better world, make a better world.
Repeat Chorus And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, And the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life, wound this Earth, crucify its soul, Though it’s plain to see this world is heavenly, be God’s glow. We could fly so high, let our spirits never die. In my heart I feel you are all my brothers, Create a world with no fear, together we’ll cry happy tears, See the nations turn their swords into ploughshares. We could really get there, if you cared enough for the living, Make a little space, to make a better place.
Repeat Chorus (3 times)
There are people dying, if you care enough for the living, Make a better place, for you and for me. There are people dying, if you care enough for the living, Make a better place, for you and for me. You and for me. (Make a better place). You and for me. (Make a better place). You and for me. (Make a better place). You and for me. (Heal the world we live in). You and for me. (Save it for our children). You and for me. (Heal the world we live in). You and for me. (Save it for our children). You and for me. (Heal the world we live in). You and for me. (Save it for our children). You and for me. (Heal the world we live in). You and for me. (Save it for our children). Save it for our children. END
Vocals: Tennessee banjo player Mr Troy Boswell, known professionally as Leroy Troy.
Lyrics: American stand-up comedian and singer Sean Morey and American songwriter and actor Stan Jones
Ghost Chickens in the Sky.
A chicken Farmer, took a walk, out on his farm one day, He paused by the coop, as he went along his way, When all at once a rotten egg hit him in the eye, It was the sight he dreaded, ghost chickens in the sky.
[Chorus]
(Chicken clucking/crowing sounds) Ghost chickens in the sky.
He’d been a chicken farmer since he was twenty four, Working for the Colonel, for thirty years or more, Killing all theses chickens and sending them to fry, And now they want revenge, ghost chickens in the sky.
[Repeat Chorus]
Their beaks were black and shiney, their eyes were blazing red, They didn’t have no feathers these chickens all were dead, They picked the farmer up and he died by the claw, They cooked him extra crispy, (pause) and they ate him with coleslaw.
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