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A picked folk song with an Indian twist
change india disparity
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Singer-songwriter, arranger and producer: acoustic contemporary folk but ranging into rock/blues/country/jazz/humour...all very eclectic, I'm afraid!
Martin Stirrup Singer/songwriter An old folkie who got back into it... These days I sing and play guitar(s) and other stringed instruments, then score and orchestrate where appropriate. My taste becomes increasingly eclectic ranging from finger-picked folk through country to soft rock mixed in with a few more alternative and eccentric numbers, including the odd novelty foxtrot...
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #108
Peak in subgenre #25
Author
Martin Stirrup
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Martin Stirrup
Uploaded
January 18, 2022
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MP3 8.0 MB • 320 kbps • 3:30
Lossless
WAV 35.3 MB
Story behind the song
The first of a cluster of songs written in India - there's a growing disparity between traditional rural India and the new, thrusting middle class...
Lyrics
CH 06 Change D CG A D CG A Bm AG EDA GA C GAAAmAm The middle class has come to pass With leisure time to play The nouveau riche have found their niche And mean to spend their pay The fading aristocracy have all but had their day Don't even try you can't deny That change is on it's way But it's still got a long way to go Em DEmEm DEm D CD CGAAm But take a track from off the highway streaming through the fields Don't be too surprised as history's layers back get peeled You'll still find families living in whatever way they must Scratching out their lives in the squalor and the dust In the dust See the modern buildings rising up un glass and steel Whilst far below the poor are sifting refuse for a meal Temples can be modernised and plated in new gold Whilst outside stand the beggars, the young, the maimed the old maimed and old Cell phone masts are bristling no matter where you are And towns are clogging up with all the shiny brand new cars Getting tangled up with tuk tuks and all those cows Whilst oxen draw the water or pull the wooden ploughs wooden ploughs
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