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Tiddlywinks

from Jacquerie by Edward Morneau

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I don’t know if Hurricane Katrina was nature’s barometer of things to come, but I do know that our political response to it orphaned one of our greatest cities and put into grim focus the continuing isolation of poor and Black Americans from the privileges of our democracy. For their increasing numbers, this promise is a lie and runs counter to the spiritual essence America claims to possess in the celebration of her blessings. It was mostly during the Bush administration’s horrifying indifference to New Orleans where I certified my own disbelief of his alleged Christian passions. This kind of fakery is beneath contempt, and as a consequence of his re-election, made me question if America truly has any authentic spiritual convictions based on any religious text steeped in the elevation of the disenfranchised soul.

In “Tiddlywinks” I chose to orphan a brother and sister and carry them on a big wave back out to sea to look again for the Promised Land; to encounter biblical and literary personas adrift in their own respective metaphysical storms.

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Tiddlywinks

Poor boy, don’t have no work

Poor boy, just sit and jaw 

Poor boy is fast asleep

Poor boy ain’t gonna drive this car.

Poor girl, she plays jump rope
Poor girl, she plays with jacks
Tiddlywinks and singing songs
Poor girl, she ain’t coming back.

Where they come from?
Where they go?
What they want from me?
Where’s the mayor and police?
We all floatin’ out to sea.

Saw Jonah out there, saw old Job
Saw Ahab and the whale 

Hitched a ride on a crowded boat
Hope that wind gonna blow that sail.

Fever come and fever go
Wind held us in her hands 

Water rose and the tears dried up
Couldn’t wait ‘til we touched that land.

Then I saw the light through a smoky mist
Hope held high in her hand

“What you doin’ way up here?”

Guess I’m lookin’ for the promised land.

“Ain’t no jobs here for you, boy

Ain’t no tiddlywinks, girl
Ain’t no time to sing and jaw 

You’re a wink and a prayer in a big-eyed world.”

Someday a big old wind will blow this lie away
Someday Jesus come and ask, 

“Why didn’t you listen to a word I say?”

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from Jacquerie, track released January 1, 2010

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Edward Morneau Salem, Massachusetts

Edward Morneau has been a musician and songwriter most of his life. His focus on multiple genres and interest on sound collage experimentation makes his music hard to classify. His muses range from Beatles, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, XTC, Kinks, Iris DeMent to Mahler, Shostakovich, Penderecki & Zappa. His background as an English & Film teacher gives humor and striking imagery to his songs. ... more

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