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MOTHER OF EXILES

Mother of exiles can you hold me
Pull me to your breast
Like a newborn baby?

Mother of exiles can you sing me to sleep
You are my sunshine
You belong to me?

Oh Oh Mama,
Oh Oh Mama, Oo hoo ooo ooo
With your silent lips you call to your poor,
And your tired, all they’re yearning for.

Mother of exiles can you hear me
I lost my home, my family
I’m a refugee?
Mother of exiles can you feed me
I hope I don’t choke
On the American dream?

Oh Oh Mama,
Oh Oh Mama, Oo hoo ooo ooo
With your silent lips you call to your poor,
And your tired, all they’re yearning for.

Mother of exiles
Torch held high, I hear
In America justice is blind.
Mother of exiles can you wrap me in your flame?
Keeper of lightning
Burning the house down again.

Oh Oh Mama,
Oh Oh Mama, Oo hoo ooo ooo
With your silent lips you call to your poor,
And your tired, all they’re yearning for
All they’re yearning for…
All they’re yearning for…
All they’re yearning for…

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from You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea, released September 30, 2020

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Natalie D-Napoleon Santa Barbara, California

Natalie D-Napoleon is an Australian-American singer-songwriter and poet who formed a US-based trio with Kenny Edwards (Linda Ronstadt) and Dan Phillips. Natalie’s latest album, You Wanted to Be the Shore But Instead You Were the Sea, was recorded with one mic in a hundred year old chapel and features Phillips along with James Connolly (Van Dyke Parkes) and Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams). ... more

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