Digging Roots - Tall Grass

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Digging Roots - "Tall Grass" from the 2022 album Zhawenim on Ishkōdé Records.

Canadian duo Digging Roots returned this summer with their fourth LP Zhawenim. Since 2004, the husband-and-wife team of Raven Kanatakta Polson-Lahache and Sho-Shona Kish have crafted an award-winning blend of folk, hip-hop, and more with traditional Indigenous music. (Sho-Shona is Anishinabe, from Batchewana First Nation, while Raven is Anishinabe and Mohawk, from Winneway, Quebec.)

The album title of "zhawenim" translates from Anishinabemowin to "to love unconditionally." As they write on their Facebook page, "Each of us has a thousand Ancestors standing with us. This collection of songs is for all our Ancestors, past, present and future. We’re dedicating Zhawenim to the children. Those living now, those yet to come and to those little ones who were stolen and never made it home to their families. We will always live life to its fullest for them, play music and dance for them, and feast for them. Niikaanaagaanah."

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0:00.0	I don't wanna go back to the city, I don't wanna go
0:22.0	I don't wanna go back to the city, I don't wanna go
0:30.0	Lay me down in the tall grass and be Lay me down, let them never leave me
0:42.0	I don't wanna go back to the concrete, I don't wanna go
0:49.0	I don't wanna go back to the concrete, I don't wanna go
0:56.0	Lay me down in the tall grass and be Lay me down, let them never leave me
1:09.0	Lay me down in the tall grass and be Lay me down, let them never leave me
1:18.0	I don't wanna go back to the hustle, I don't wanna go
1:27.0	I don't wanna go back to the hustle, I don't wanna go
1:36.0	Lay me down in the tall grass and be Lay me down in the tall grass
1:44.0	Lay me down in the tunnel as I will be
1:47.0	Lay me down with the stone as I will be
2:09.0	She said walk gently
2:11.0	Walk gently
2:13.0	Into the wide open spaces as far as you can see
2:18.0	She said go to the places that you can breathe
2:21.0	And I stood with the old ones who dreamed this life for me
2:25.0	And listened to her voice
2:28.0	And stand at the trees
2:30.0	Slowly
2:32.0	And we fight and resist
2:34.0	For the simple right to be
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