WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.570 --> 00:00:01.890 align:middle line:90% And I want to do a few-- 00:00:01.890 --> 00:00:04.590 align:middle line:84% mostly, some ballads from this book, The Sleep That Changed 00:00:04.590 --> 00:00:05.450 align:middle line:90% Everything. 00:00:05.450 --> 00:00:07.005 align:middle line:90% I want to go to that mode. 00:00:07.005 --> 00:00:09.390 align:middle line:84% The first one I'm going to do is-- 00:00:09.390 --> 00:00:11.400 align:middle line:84% this has five sections, this book. 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.610 align:middle line:84% And the middle section is called vibratory odes. 00:00:14.610 --> 00:00:16.490 align:middle line:90% This is from that section. 00:00:16.490 --> 00:00:19.890 align:middle line:84% I always ask people to think of neighborhood heroes 00:00:19.890 --> 00:00:24.060 align:middle line:84% in your life, that might not have been sung about. 00:00:24.060 --> 00:00:25.137 align:middle line:90% To make a song for them. 00:00:25.137 --> 00:00:26.970 align:middle line:84% So this is what I made for Harry Golden, who 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:28.110 align:middle line:90% wrote only in America. 00:00:28.110 --> 00:00:31.320 align:middle line:84% He's a civil rights worker in Charlotte, North Carolina. 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:35.850 align:middle line:84% And he had several publications I'll cite in the ballad. 00:00:35.850 --> 00:00:43.680 align:middle line:84% It's called, "Ballad of Vertical Integration," for Harry Golden. 00:00:43.680 --> 00:00:47.760 align:middle line:84% "Civil Rights was brewing in a Charlotte coffee shop, 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:51.420 align:middle line:84% at an orange juice bar called Tanner's down near the main bus 00:00:51.420 --> 00:00:52.710 align:middle line:90% stop. 00:00:52.710 --> 00:00:57.120 align:middle line:84% Cross of Trade and Tyron where the Cherokee once hunt, 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:02.390 align:middle line:84% Harry Golden cast his shining eye on a way to make his point. 00:01:02.390 --> 00:01:06.200 align:middle line:84% In a country of strangers from either side of town, 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.190 align:middle line:84% there were only certain places everybody could sit down. 00:01:10.190 --> 00:01:12.200 align:middle line:84% Here black and white, both alike, 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:14.540 align:middle line:90% stood up and drank their juice. 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:17.390 align:middle line:84% 'Eureka,' Harry Golden cried, 'that's the way to call 00:01:17.390 --> 00:01:19.400 align:middle line:90% the truce!' 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:23.060 align:middle line:84% Take out all the chairs from restaurants, cars and schools. 00:01:23.060 --> 00:01:26.630 align:middle line:84% Take out all the benches make way for other rules. 00:01:26.630 --> 00:01:31.010 align:middle line:84% If some folks can't sit down somewhere then everybody stand. 00:01:31.010 --> 00:01:36.950 align:middle line:84% We'll learn and eat vertical integration in this land. 00:01:36.950 --> 00:01:40.340 align:middle line:84% He printed up his paper, the Carolina Israelite. 00:01:40.340 --> 00:01:44.090 align:middle line:84% Only in America, he then went on to write. 00:01:44.090 --> 00:01:48.230 align:middle line:84% Gold dust shines in red clay, we pass on from the past. 00:01:48.230 --> 00:01:50.150 align:middle line:84% Harry, thanks for tickling our funny bones 00:01:50.150 --> 00:01:53.600 align:middle line:90% to help the changes last. 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:59.060 align:middle line:84% Now it's year 2008, just look around you now. 00:01:59.060 --> 00:02:02.960 align:middle line:84% Things aren't quite as far along as they ought to be somehow. 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:07.400 align:middle line:84% This ballad is a call to arms to open up our eyes. 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:11.750 align:middle line:84% Each and every one of us, Golden can arise. 00:02:11.750 --> 00:02:16.870 align:middle line:84% For each and every one of us, a rainbow is the prize." 00:02:16.870 --> 00:02:18.000 align:middle line:90%