80 year old mooshim
In onze serie knusliedjes (mijn vertaling van feel-good-music) dit keer een liedje van het Canadese folkduo Digging Roots, van hun debuut-cd Seeds. Het is een liedje over een tachtigjarige man die terugkijkt op een goed leven. De laatste zin van het liedje: “And wherever I go – I will always know – that I’m loved”.
Knusliedjes:
Kippevelliedjes:
- Strange Fruit
- Kilkelly
- Ellis Unit One
- Amsterdam huilt
- Singing the spirit home
- Across the great divide
- And the band played Waltzing Matilda
- Horse out in the rain
- Sam Stone
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Sammy’s Song
80 Year old Mooshim – Digging Roots
I’m an eighty year old man I’ve walked as straight as I can
And in another twenty years I’ll be hundred
I’ve worked hard on my land and I’m proud of where I stand
And I’m calm with the stars that I live under
I’ve seen many people fall seen many grow tall
And I’ve got a heart that will never surrender
I’m an eighty year old man I’ve walked as straight as I can
And in another eighty years I’ll be be one-sixty
I’ve got many sons and daughters who all look like one another
And I’m glad to say they’re all Anishinabe
And with all my grandchildren I’ve built a generation
And lost count ‘cause there’s as many h as a tiny nation
I’m an elder in this clan and a mighty mighty man
And I can shoot a moose and a deer with just one bullet
I’m an eighty year old man I’ve walked as straight as I can
And I’m glad to say I’m Anishinabe
I’m an eighty year old man I’ve walked as straight as I can
And I’m glad to say I still look like sixty
Well times have changed some have been strange
But there is something I always remember
Wherever I go I will always know
I’m an eighty year old man I’ve walked as straight as I can
I’m an eighty year old man
I’m an eighty year old man I’ve walked as straight as I can
And wherever I go I will alwys know
That I’m loved.