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to World Cafe. Hey, I am Kaleo I

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have got a mini concert for you from

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this year's 30 a songwriters festival

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that takes place along the emerald

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coast in Northwestern Florida in Partnership

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with our friends at WMOT. We are playing

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back some standout sessions and today it's the

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music of Reverend Shawn Amos For

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decades Amos has mixed blues roots gospel

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and rock to tremendous effect in addition

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He's also an author and producer. He

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first visited the cafe in 2005 for the

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release of his third album Thank you Shirley.

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May his new album soul

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brother number one was released last month

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You'll hear performances from it as we

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get into our 30 a session mini

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concert with Reverend Shawn Amos Starting

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with weight of the world its world

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cafe I'm

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talking she broke

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free from the weight of

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world The

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shape of the long

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curve and hands to

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someone who understands Adabelle

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is recalling every record

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etched in her mind She

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was born at the right time

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Stylin on she's calling

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she's shaking the weight

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of the world It

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changed the street out

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of Memphis She

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won't back down from an

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angry mob Told

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her people to go west

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There ain't no justice for

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our folks here Ida

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Bell tells her faithful That

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the past don't turn on

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her down Well

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she was born at the right

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time Starting on,

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she's calling She's

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shaking away from

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the world Say

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her name so

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you hear What

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it means to

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lose your fear

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Say her name so you know

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What it means to keep your

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soul Shake the weight of the

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world, shake the weight of the

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world Shake the weight

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of the world, shake the weight of

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it Say

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her name Say her

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name, say

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her name Say

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her name, say her

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name She's called. She's

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shaking. She's calling. She's

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shaking. She's calling. She's

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shaking away from the

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world Tired

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of asses on a

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weary, forgetful servant fades

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away Pulling

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up behind

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the half

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line, stranger

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than today Changing

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shoes before the

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warning, shouldn't be

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surprised Running

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loose between the blue

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sky, we couldn't say

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we tried Running

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loose between the

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two, we couldn't

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say we tried

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Mr. Marion Walter

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Jacobs, he

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never said goodbye Soon

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after the altercation, they

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buried him alive On

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his horse at 54th Street,

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stranger than today Or

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if what a marksville parish Never

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shall be seen Or

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if what a

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marksville parish Never

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shall be seen

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Or if what

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a marksville parish

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Never shall be seen

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Or if

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what a

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marksville parish

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Never shall

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be seen

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