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--from the Snipe Hunt album "We'll Be Right Back!" (1998).

Ehresman tells us: "Musically, this song was inspired by a variety of sub-Saharan African styles, with South African flavors being predominant."

Download whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/well-be-right-back

See video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc5xC_H9050

lyrics

Rwandan Blues
(© 1997 lyrics--W. Ehresman; music--Scott Brannock/W. Ehresman)

Pass me the palm wine, the pombe, I need to get stoned;
The soldiers are coming to drive me away from my home.
The crops in the field aren't as high as they once were before;
But having a little is better than having none at all.

My friend left last week, I don't think that I'll see him again--
your cameras can't be everywhere in this country I live in.
When they take me off the path through the jungle where no one will see,
where we do to each other what once only you did to me.

[chorus]
Tagati, I see your television;
Tagati, I see your special shoes;
Tagati, you've moved on to the next country;
Left me here singin' my Rwandan blues.

I die where I fall in that clearing so far from my home;
My neighbors die with me, but can't help from feelin' alone;
There's rumors of conspiracy while animals pick at our bones;
But even with a close-up, would you feel it was one of your own?


* “tagati” is Swahili for “black magic”

credits

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​World Music, released March 1, 2017
Snipe Hunt--Walter Ehresman: lead and rhythm guitar, talking drum, shaker, background & elder vocals; Vic Ramirez: lead vocals, acoustic 6-string guitar, cabasa, shaker; Scott Brannock--fretless electric bass, background vocals, cabasa, tubano, whistle; Pat Devaney: kit drums, conga, bell.

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Walter Ehresman San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more

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