Name: Those Old Saints
Duration: 4 min 7 s
Channel: John R. Whitney
Description: This New Orleans jazz styled recording uses a 'Band in a Box' accompaniment with a Louis Armstrong-like trumpet solo.

Those Old Saints

John Robert Whitney

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This New Orleans jazz styled recording uses a 'Band in a Box' accompaniment with a Louis Armstrong-like trumpet solo.

folk singersongwriter multi instrumentalist songwriting band in a box

John Robert Whitney

John Robert Whitney is a singer/songwriter and professional conservationist from Western New York State (East Aurora/Buffalo).

Singer/Songwriter; multi-instrumentalist; folk, country, pop, blues, jazz, Gospel; professional conservationist

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #997

Peak in subgenre #185

Author

John R. Whitney

Rights

John R. Whitney

Uploaded

December 30, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 122 kbps • 4:07

Story behind the song

The inspiration is obvious and the upbeat style is intentional. The lyrics of "Those Old Saints" were actually published in my employer's October 2005 newsletter: http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/news/.

Lyrics

Those Old Saints
In Memory of the Victims and Survivors of “Katrina” – August 29, 2005
 
Those old Saints, had to learn to swim
When the levees broke and let the water in
And the mighty storm washed across the ground
They had to learn to swim or they would have drowned.

Chorus  Those old Saints, are gonna march again
             After the hurricane and her mighty winds
             And waves and floods tore their world apart
             They’re gonna march again, they’ll make a
                   brand new start.

Those old Saints, had to learn to fly
‘Cause the roofs were hot, and the waters high
And fouled with trash and oil and flooded sewers.
They had to learn to fly or they’d have died for sure.

Chorus

Those old Saints, still know how to pray
They still know how to pray for a brighter day.
And they hold out hope, for love and strength and grace
That their reborn world will be a better place.
Those old Saints, are gonna march again
After the hurricane and her mighty winds
And waves and floods tore their world apart
We’re gonna march again, we’ll make a brand new start.

Unpublished work © 2005 John R. Whitney

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