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Thread #31321   Message #538187
Posted By: Big Mick
30-Aug-01 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: Powerful Songs That Make You Uneasy - 2
Subject: RE: Powerful Songs That Make You Uneasy - 2
Heard Bogle doing a song once about a black man in a South African jail. One morning the jailers came to take him and hang him. As his courage started to fail him, his brothers in the jail started to sing in a South African rhythm, "Courage, brother, you do not walk alone. We are with you, to sing your spirit home". The whole song is amazingly powerful and reaches into me on a primal level. When one has been very close to death, and seen its face, this song connects in a powerful way.

All the best,

Mick