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Diamonds

from Middle World by Laurie Sarkadi

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Percussive jam about the impacts of diamond mining on Indigenous people in Africa and the Canadian Arctic.

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There's a hunter going to Hollywood
He left Africa trying to spread the word
About a drought in the Kalahari
There's plenty of rain there's just no people

He says he'd like to carry on
Bring bow to arrow like his father's done
Like his father's done from day one
Like his father's done and never undone

But the government and its corporate bosses
Only care about their profits and their losses
From Africa to Denendeh
Mining shiny gems where they used to pray

There's diamonds beneath the Kalahari grasses
And corporate greed exceeds the needs of the masses
So they pushed the people from the land that held their dances
Now there's diamonds underground there's just no people

'Cause the government and its corporate bosses
Only care about their profits and their losses
From Africa to Denendeh
Mining shiny gems where they used to pray

There's diamonds in Denendeh
Beneath the rock and ice where caribou once played
Now giant holes leave giant tolls for the earth to pay
They took the diamonds but the Dene had a say

They didn't let the government and its corporate bosses
Only care about their profits and their losses
So don't let the government and its corporate bosses
Only care about their profits and their losses
From Africa to Denendeh
Mining shiny gems where they used to pray
From Africa to Denendeh
Mining shiny gems where they used to pray

There's a praying mantis in my candlelight
There's a praying mantis in my children's walk
There's a praying mantis inside of me
There's a praying mantis saying free me

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from Middle World, released May 29, 2020
Laurie Sarkadi vocals
Marc Ganetakos guitar, drums
Sophie Leger backup vocals

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Laurie Sarkadi Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Smokey and dangerous acid-folk, sweet’n salty old-tyme country, funk-fused blues-rock, Yellowknife singer-songer Laurie Sarkadi’s genre-bending songs tell stories about place, politics and desire that aim to make you think and sway. Her debut album is designed to be a companion to her northern bestselling memoir Voice in the Wild. lauriesarkadi.com ... more

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