Name: We'll Bring You Home
Duration: P00H02M21S
Description: Written by James in response to the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in Canada

We'll Bring You Home

from When I Stayed Home by JAMES GORDON

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Written by James in response to the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in Canada

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The Grey Sisters of the cross
Were entrusted with your care
What care was shown to those we lost
In that grave over there

We’ve all heard the tales
Of the horrors at St. Anne’s
We all heard the screams and wails
It was part of the plan

We’ll bring you home, bring you home
So your names and your stories can be known
Bring you home, bring you home
We’ll give a voice to your dust and to your bones

It was dark where you were discarded
It was cold and it was damp
For all the broken-hearted
It was not a school but a concentration camp

Cut down in your youth
They took your future away
Now you can speak your truth`
So your death won’t be in vain

Cowessess, Kamloops Brandon
Cranbrook, more to come
Places where you were abandoned
By the so-called holy ones

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from When I Stayed Home, released July 14, 2021

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JAMES GORDON Guelph, Ontario

James Gordon is a Canadian songwriter/playwright/musician/producer/author and community activist. Co-founder of the legendary Canadian folk trio Tamarack, He’s released 40 albums in 40 years!
His newest release on Borealis Records- "the Heritage Hall Sessions" has been very well received world-wide. James Moonlights as a CIty Councillor in his hometown of Guelph, Ontario. www.jamesgordon.ca ... more

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