Archie Roach - One Song

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Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Archie Roach - One Song from the 2022 album My Songs: 1989 – 2021 on Bloodlines.

Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter, activist, and author Archie Roach exited this mortal coil on July 30th of this year, leaving behind a legacy of powerful blues tunes telling the story of his painful personal history as well as those of the Aboriginal community. In his 66 years on the planet, 30 of them releasing music, he acquired numerous awards and accolades, including multiple ARIAs (Australia’s version of the Grammy’s), an International Human Rights Achievement award, and a hall of fame induction at the 2020 ARIAs.

Shortly before his death, in February of 2022, Roach released the 44-tack anthology album My Songs: 1989 – 2021 which included a new song titled “One Song.” The softly-strummed six-minute song is sparse yet compelling, with Roach singing of a collective connection and the acknowledgment of and privilege to all come from one place. “Remember well what we have told you /And don't forget where you come from,” Roach warmly suggests. “Mother Earth will always hold you /And you are born of just one song.”

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0:00.0	We can see from game and place
0:28.0	A planet that is empty
0:43.0	Show easy your time and space
0:53.0	That you may ever brandy
1:14.0	And we sing across the land
1:24.0	And across the water
1:35.0	We sing one another, we sing man
1:45.0	We sing sun in order
1:55.0	Remember well what we had told you
2:05.0	And don't forget where you come from
2:16.0	Mother Earth will always hold you
2:26.0	And you are born of just one song
2:47.0	We sing mountains and the trees
3:11.0	And the rivers flow in
3:21.0	We sing the rain that falls so free
3:33.0	And the wind that's blowing
3:52.0	Now we are blessed that we've been given
4:02.0	This beautiful land where we belong
4:13.0	Dream and story we are living
4:23.0	Dream and dance and dream in song
4:34.0	Remember well what we had told you
4:43.0	But don't forget where you come from
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