We're Going To Change Historia
We’re Going to Change ‘Historia’ (or We’ll Vote to Change ‘Historia’) a reconstructed song intending to deconstruct, then reconstruct history, based on the song, “We are marching to Pretoria”, key of C or D works well. This song was made popular by Josef Marais in the ‘50s; problem is that it was not all that politically correct from a progressive point of view, even though The Weavers and Smothers Brothers did it and my version is the result of me remembering how much I loved to sing it as a child and then the call for a ‘rescue’ song from my dad*, because he is watching some dangerous trends in our country right now! I do not want to lose the song and best thing here is ‘to cook new soup with stale words and fresh meanings, it tastes so good”. -Thor Sigstedt Oct, 2018)
"I'm with you and you're with me and we are all together, we are all together, we are all together, I’m with you and you’re with me and we are all together, as we walk along.
Original lyrics: I'm with you and you're with me, and so we row together, so we row together, so we row together. Sing with me, I'll sing with you, and so we will sing together, as we march (or walk) along.
Chorus between verses: We’re going to change historia, historia, historia
We’re going to change historia, historia hoorah!)
Original lyrics: “We have food and food is good and so we will eat together, so we will eat together, so we will eat together
When we eat will be a treat and so let us sing together, as we march along”
My other new verses (and you can make up your own):
“We’re black and white and red and brown
And we are all together, we are all together, we are altogether,
We’re gay and straight, we’re bi and trans
And we are all together, as we walk along.
Chorus: We’re going to change historia, historia, historia, we’ll vote to change historia, historia, historia hoorah!
We’re boy and girl and man and woman, we are all together, we are al ltogether,we are all together
We’re young and old, sick and well, we are all together, as we walk along.
Chorus: We’re going to change historia, historia, historia, we’ll vote to change historia, historia, hoorah!
Some pray and kneel, some think and feel, and we are all together
Some believe in god and others don’t, and we are all together, as we walk along”
Chorus: We’re going to change historia, historia, historia, we’ll vote to change historia, historia, hoorah!
When we all do well, we all do well, then we are all together, we are all together, we are all together.
We’re rich and poor, we’re blue and white and we are all together, as we walk along.
Chorus : We’re going to change historia, historia, historia, we’ll vote to change historia, historia, hoorah!
We’ll vote to change historia, historia, historia, we’ll vote to change historia, historia hoorah!
As it turns out, my dad met Josef Marais, the person to popularize this song in the US (from South Africa), in Aspen, Colorado, where he was studying minstrel singing with Richard Dyer Benner, along with the young woman he just met there, my mother, Mansi Kern. And...even earlier, my paternal grandparents, Thorsten and Cyriel, evidently avidly listened to 'Songs from the Veld', a radio program run by none other than Joseph Marais.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can put in here and there or sing on top of : Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, etc., or, for that matter, “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are, etc. (this row your boat thing was done by the Weavers many years ago! I added the idea of Twinkle, Twinkle....)