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American Shantytown
02:49
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Columbus Sailed Here
03:58
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High School Steps
03:10
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Gone To Bolivia
02:51
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Rambling Bones
03:16
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Everybody Matters
03:22
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Her Prince
02:40
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Marie Marie
02:48
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Everybody's Crying Mercy
03:12
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In Burma
02:29
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The boy who walked Backwards through the snow by Ben Sures 2009
I’m the last full blood from Serpent River
That’s what he told his daughter on the day that he died
He kept asking about a moose and crossing some great river
She did not know what he meant right to the last instant that her fingers closed his eyes
The last full blood from Serpent River
The boy who fooled the nuns and didn’t show
the last of a kind there will be none left behind
The boy who walked backwards through the snow
As a child they dragged him, off to residential school
Where they cut his hair and told him what language to speak
But he and his buddies, would form secret huddles
whisper the words of their mother tongue Be damned if the sisters come
Be damned if they didn’t speak
The last full blood from Serpent River
The boy who fooled the nuns and didn’t show
the last of a kind there will be none left behind
The boy who walked backwards through the snow
they let him home for the holidays, he swore to not return
to the school and english syllables, killer of individuals,
short haircuts for Indians not the man on the cross
So he walked backwards through the snow, hid inside the treeline
When the sisters came collecting, they were so unsuspecting
He was there but he didn’t show
The last full blood from Serpent River
The boy who fooled the nuns and didn’t show
the last of a kind there will be none left behind
The boy who walked backwards through the snow
Now that boy is an old man, he’s lying on his deathbed
Speaking in a tongue the nuns would never understand
I am the last full blood from Serpent river
That’s what he told his daughter on the day that he died
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Embrasse Papa, fait dodo
04:06
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Postcards
02:34
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Ben Sures Edmonton, Alberta
Ben Sures sings in English, French and Spanish. Plays mostly folk meets roots meets world originals and and a few cover songs by Boubacar Traore, Los Zafiros and Blind Lemon Jefferson. He more recently has dabbled in electronic collaboration.
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