OrkestarSlivovica writes new AERA lyrics to classic Balkan tunes (2)

Susan Gerofsky wrote this song to the tune of Niska Banja (a tune in 7/8):

A-E-R-A

1) Garden-based class
Out in the sun
Hands in the soil
Feet in the clay

Write eco-poems
History\s taste
Math in our arms
Botanical plays.

chorus:
Scholarly text
Activist ways
Head hand and heart
AERA.

Critical thought
Cultural play
Challenge the power
AERA.

2) Those trickster tales
Ananse-sem
Turtle, bird, twig
Bat's cunning ways --

Folkloric texts
Chasing the tale
Youth find a voice
And know what to say.

chorus

3)  Coast Salish land
Beat nation speaks
First Nations teach
Cultural ways.

Hands reach, hands raised
There has been pain
There will be hope
There will be change.

 chorus