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Red River
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Red River est sorti le 27 septembre 2019 par Paradise of Bachelors dans le cadre de l'album Abundance Welcoming Ghosts
27 septembre 2019
LabelParadise of Bachelors
LangueEnglish
BPM109
Qualité mélodique
Acoustique
Valence
Dansabilité
Énergie

Paroles

You wrote to me, you were looking for
 Someone who could translate
 Two words into the language of
 The ancestors of the late
 Mother of your partner, who wanted a tattoo
 Of the words her mother chanted when
 Breathing was hard to do.
 She spoke these words in English
 But you wanted to know their names
 In the dialect of the Saulteaux metis;
 A tongue whose name I’d claimed.
 I took a name, I took a name in vain
 Run Red River, flood the conquered plain
 Did I take a name, did I take a name from veins? 
 Run Red River, breathing blood speak up again
 Let it in, let it in, let it in, let it flow
 Narrowing, narrowing, narrowing: Throat of the world
 Can I breathe in the bad and breathe out the good
 I see those men stalking through the twisting wood
 And the white stone dam of guilt that glows
 Like the white knights armour; let the Red River flow
 To the fork of the Red and Assiniboine rivers,
 From Orkney and the Hebrides,
 Men came to trap and trade fur for
 The Hudson Bay Company.
 They spoke Scots English, Gaelic and Orcadian.
 The women who they took for wives
 Were Cree of the first nations.
 The ‘Red River Dialect’ became the English name
 For the lilting Mantitoba metis speech
 Heard around the Saulteaux plain.
 Like the Michif language, Cree don’t say he or she,
 But I know that white man’s hunger ate
 The speech of the metis.
 {chorus}
Written by: David Morris

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