Kora Sunset

Lyrics

Gold pours from twenty-one strings The griot sits beneath the baobab His fingers speak in centuries Each pluck a page from Africa's book Kora sunset a thousand years in every note Kora sunset a thousand years in every note Every note Every note The children dance in circles small Their feet draw patterns in the dust The elders nod to rhythms they Have carried since before the rust The kora does not play the sunset The kora is the sunset strings of light that fall and rise and fall again Kora sunset a thousand years in every note Kora sunset a thousand years in every note Every note Every note The savanna stretches gold on gold A baobab casts its upside crown The kora counts the colors down From amber through to underground The last light finds the lowest string And makes it glow like heated wire The griot smiles and does not stop The darkness only feeds the fire

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