Swamp Dogg - Songs To Sing

Swamp Dogg - "Songs to Sing" from his new album Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th ST. Purchase/save here: https://ohboy.lnk.to/blackgrass

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Songs To Sing (LYRICS)

Songs to sing
I have a choice
oh
when the whole world
could hear my voice
I'll sing about a people
that want to be free
Ill sing about a generation
that’ll help it to be
ill sing about a change
thats just about to come
ill sing about equality
oh for everyone
oh
give some to sing
songs to sing
oh when the world
could hear my voice
if Sing about a war
completely unjust
ill sing about a nation
the worlf would no longer trust
ill sing about the riots
that you see on TV
and how after 500 years
people are still not free
oh
if songs to sing
had a choice
when the whole world
could hear my voice
ill sing about brothers
you can hear everyday cry
why must so many
of our young sons die
ill sing about future woman
she singin a song
go wheeever
those young men go
ill sing about politics
and its power to the youth
ill sing about a beautiful land
once we all face the truth
ill sing a song
such a beautiful song
lord lord lord lord lord
ill sing a song
such a beautiful song
lord lord lord
the morning
the evening
lord
ill sing a song
such a beautiful song


Hailed by Pitchfork as “one of pop’s great cult acts,” Swamp Dogg has spent the better part of the last 70 years pushing the boundaries of soul, funk, and R&B, rebelling against the confining racial and commercial politics of the music industry with more than two dozen critically acclaimed albums ranging from the radically subversive to the downright absurd.

With his remarkable new collection, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St., Swamp Dogg adds yet another chapter to his endlessly surprising career, celebrating the sounds he grew up on in 1940s Virginia while at the same time shining a spotlight on bluegrass music’s deep African American roots. Produced by Ryan Olson and recorded with an all-star band including Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas, Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, and Kenny Vaughan, the collection is a riotous blend of past and present, one that filers the sacred and profane through a progressive Appalachian lens that nods to tradition without ever being bound by it. Special guests like Margo Price, Vernon Reid, Jenny Lewis, Justin Vernon, and The Cactus Blossoms all add to the excitement, but it’s ultimately the 81-year-old Swamp Dogg’s delivery—sly and playful and full of genuine joy and ache—that steals the show. The result is a record that’s as reverent as it is raunchy, a work that challenges conventional notions of genre and race as it combines lust and heartbreak, pain and ecstasy, revolution and ridiculousness the way only Swamp Dogg can.

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