Name: Come on Down
Duration: P00H03M42S
Description: Elias wrote this song as a tribute to New Orleans after living there for a while in 2012. The city and its people inspire so much. This track is dedicated to New Orleans and everyone who makes it what it is. Thanks to Jackson Clawson for his ever tasteful harmonic contributions.

Come on Down

from Carry it On by Soulsha: Afro-Celtic Funk

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Elias wrote this song as a tribute to New Orleans after living there for a while in 2012. The city and its people inspire so much. This track is dedicated to New Orleans and everyone who makes it what it is. Thanks to Jackson Clawson for his ever tasteful harmonic contributions.

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Don’t mind the weather
Just stick together

And if it’s hot then the weather’s getting dangerous, it don’t matter to me
Many a man who would take a cold weapon and shoot you down dead in the street
And if a child want to grow right wild eyed we’d got to give him peace
It’s hard to grow when the guns keep blazing every day in the land of the free

Come on down now people just come on down
We’ve got work to do ain’t no use lying around

We’ve got to hold this city up like a mother’s grown child
Keep singing these songs when the going gets tough then the people still smile
And I could float down the whole Mississippi St. Paul to New Orleans
Lean pickings hard times in America tell you just what I’ve seen

Come on down now people just come on down
We’ve got work to do ain’t no use lying around

In Wolof:
Yagg na yagg na yagg na
Yagg na mbeur mi maam mo ko daan
Reukko ngi saa ndiaye
Mbiri biri mbato
Mbato mbato yeuboo
Mbato mbako yeubat
Cow li cow li lu ko waral
Sama ganyi juggal wuti ligeey
Duggal wuti job
Wax ci keur gi
Moo jeri nyula dara
Doxoontu ci keur gi
Moo jeri nyula dara

(Long time, long time, long time ago
My ancestors played sabar
I’m giving a blessing
The talk, the talk, why the talk
We need to stand up and work
Just talk isn’t enough
Hanging out is not enough)

Come on down now people just come on down
We’ve got work to do ain’t no use lying around

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from Carry it On, track released May 31, 2019

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Uniting the traditions of Scotland, Senegal, and American funk into a mind-bending danceable sensation.

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