Aella Choir of Ottawa

2023 Mosaik Festival Ottawa
The Famine Song
Ease my spirit, ease my soul
Please free my hands from this barren soil
Ease my mother, ease my child
Earth and sky be reconciled

Ease my spirit (ba-da), ease my soul
Please free my hands (ba-da) from this barren soil (ooh-ooh)
Ease my mother (ba-da), ease my child
Earth and sky (ba-da) be reconciled

Rain, rain, rain (rain)
Rain, rain, rain (rain)
Weave, my mother, weave, my child
Weave your baskets of rushes wild
Weave, my mother, weave, my child
Weave your baskets of rushes wild

Out of heat, under sun
Comes the hunger to everyone
Famine’s teeth, famine’s claw
On the sands of Africa

Rain, rain, rain (rain)
Rain, rain, rain (rain)
Weave, my mother, weave, my child
Weave your baskets of rushes wild
Weave, my mother, weave, my child
Weave your baskets of rushes wild
Rain, rain, rain (rain)
Rain, rain, rain (rain)
Rain