Live from Chicago, Elexa Dawson's "Blacksnake"

November 27, 2024 00:04:07
Live from Chicago, Elexa Dawson's "Blacksnake"
Nathans & Roncast
Live from Chicago, Elexa Dawson's "Blacksnake"

Nov 27 2024 | 00:04:07

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Here’s one more single from our live recording of this podcast at the Folk Alliance Region Midwest conference in September. This song is “Blacksnake,” which she originally recorded with her band Weda Skirts. It’s a song about the Dakota Access Pipeline project, which threatens the water supply of Native American communities in South Dakota. To hear the entire live event, click on this link.
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[00:00:21] Speaker A: Mama they said it's a felony. [00:00:27] Speaker B: To. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Stand up for the water that we drink so I put my body in the way the machine that was digging up those graves. [00:00:46] Speaker B: Where they dug up the place where my grandmother lay now they wanna put me in j All these uneven ways Keep my people as slaves Let me say your black snake. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Will fail the old one say there are two different ways Go with the gold or go with green and it's. [00:01:40] Speaker B: Gonna take a change in our way. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Using all our prayers for the water. [00:01:48] Speaker B: To be clean well they dug up the place where my grandmother lays now they want to put me in jail all these uneven ways Keep my people as slaves Let me say your black. [00:02:14] Speaker A: Snake will fail. [00:03:32] Speaker B: In ch all these une way My people as slaves Let me say your black sneak will fail. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Alexa Dawson Michael Ronstadt. This has been the Nathan's and Ron cast.

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