Dancing horses 1

[vince23]

 

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a project I caught.. I`m very unsure about.[a friend sings this]
if you think any part of this is offensive  please let me know.
this is so rough, I`m trying to get this into lyric and,
I`d like to put a little sound with the lyric so you know what I`m thinking of,
or where I`m trying to go with the lyric.
I tried to make this as tribal and primitive as I could, and I would like to keep most of that,
I thought it had far more impact.
your thoughts are welcome.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic
shows a young black child named John,
barefoot and wearing ragged clothes,
perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy.

Art historians believe it's an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children
who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.    [Other pics from thr Web]

famous-slave-escapes-harriet-jacobs
For Harriet Jacobs
escaping slavery meant hiding for several years in a prison of her own devising.
Born a slave in North Carolina,
Jacobs spent her teenage years living in fear of a cruel master who refused
to let her marry and made repeated and increasingly brutal sexual advances toward her.
When the harassment continued even after Jacobs had two children by another man,
she resolved to make a break for freedom.
In 1835, she fled her plantation and briefly hid in some friends' houses.
Knowing her chances of making it to the North were slim,
she eventually holed up in a small attic crawlspace in her grandmother's home.
The rat-infested room was tiny—only nine feet long and seven feet wide,
with a sloping ceiling that never reached higher than three feet—
and Jacobs later wrote that it offered "no admission for either light or air."
Nevertheless, she would spend an astonishing seven years living in the coffin-like space,
watching her children play in the yard
through a small peephole and only leaving for brief periods of nighttime exercise.

Jacobs finally made her escape to the North in 1842,
after a friend helped her secure passage on a boat bound for Philadelphia.  " North bound easy"
it included trains people would bring them to the north on.
From there, she proceeded by train to New York and reunited with family members.
She spent the next few years working in New York and Boston,
but remained wary of being captured by her former master until friends
helped arrange her purchase and manumission.
Jacobs later became an influential abolitionist
and published a searing account of her ordeal called
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

this is the work I started a bit back, and any thoughts or help is are welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZp2riJ1m6Y
Dancing Horses   

v 1 /4
Dancing horses North and South..
make men nervous when they drew the line
The second shot heard around the world    [The start of the civil war]  "The first shot heard around the world" Revolution"
some ran for cover, and some held ground.
00:10

1 chorus].....00:32/2

some fought for silver
what was theirs was theirs
some say its for freedom..
isn`t that men being men...

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if you get there don`t lift your head
my child...

v2 55/3
north bound "easy all the seats were filled
the children at the windows.. as it pulled away.
the mothers sat down... carving names in the planks...
the fathers still bleeding from those southern cuffs.

chorus2] 1:19/3
some fought for silver
what was theirs was theirs
some ran for freedom..
the nature in Us...
1:30
if you get there don`t lift your head
my child...
1:40/2
if you get there don`t lift your head
my child...it is a long cold... hard road ..
and men will be men...

it is a long cold... hard road ..
and men will be men...

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I like it Very good need help with anything let me know
tim

[vince23]

Hi Tim, I think i`ve brought this as far as I`m going to get it. I`ve had it for some time now and still think it would make a song. I don`t really know what to do with it, seems to me like its half full. maybe needs a little guitar  , some blues stuffed in there somewhere, bend a few strings kind of like a little Santana" it seems so empty. The  lyric might need another hand in there so the listener or the song is not confusing. You are welcome to take it if you want and work with it, I`ll send along anything I have  to help. I have orig  drum track, finished  track with and without the vocal. Your welcome to the song if you want to iron it our some.  vince