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🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert. |
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0:14.0 | This first song, I know it's kind of awkward, but is a sing along. |
0:19.0 | It's a song called Um Shalala. |
0:21.0 | And recently, even though it's a word made up, we learned in Arabic, |
0:25.6 | Umm means mother, and shala means waterfall. So that's, we wish you lots of mothers and |
0:31.7 | waterfalls during the song, and thanks for singing along if you sing along with us |
0:39.3 | The milk is so I've barely been to college and I've been doubtful of all that I have dreamed of the brink of my existence |
0:50.4 | essentially is a comedy the gap in my teeth and all that I can cling to the milk is soo-shilala-oom-o-o-shilala-o-o-shilala-o-o-o-shilala-o-o-shilala- oum shalala, oum shalala. |
1:05.0 | So with olives on my thongs and all that I've stuck to and all that I've clung to I fought like a da this world that I've trusted |
1:17.7 | has been over and busted and rusted by an arbitrary sonogram. |
1:24.0 | Shalala, um, um, Shalala, um, Shalala, um, Shalala, um, |
1:30.0 | Shalala, um, Shalala. Um, Shalala. |
1:33.2 | Um, Shalala. Um, Shalala. Um, Shalala. |
1:37.0 | Shamala. |
1:40.0 | Sour with olives on my thumbs and I've been doubtful of all that I have dreamed of the brink of my existence |
1:49.0 | essentially is a comedy the gap in my teeth and all that I can cling to the milk is sour. |
1:57.0 | Shalala, oum, shalala, |
2:01.0 | moh chalala, moh chalala, chalala, |
2:02.0 | chalala, boom, chilala, Shilala, |
2:05.0 | Shilala, Shilala, |
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