Shana Tovah I came home from Rosh Hashanah services yesterday and felt inspired to play. I feel blessed that I belong to a Jewish community that is willing to work through the difficult conversations of race and at the same I'm very frustrated because I often feel like it's lip service and wonder when will things change. Racism is ugly and nasty and does not look like it did during the time of slavery, it does not look like it did when my grandparents or when my parents were growing up. Racism is a different animal today but just as ugly and nasty. I opened up the book to RIse Up Singing and O Freedom jump out at me. I started thinking about the birthday of the world and the violence this past year and the more things change the more they stay the same, all of that swirling around my brain make this the perfect song for me at this moment. From Rise Up Singing page 62 the chords are D A D A D D7 G D A D

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