Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “”Cry No More” Performed by Heather Konar (An MIT Community Vigil)”.
Interviewer, My name is Heather Konar.. I am a communications officer in the Office of Graduate Education.. I am here this evening with my brother, Steve, the nurse on the front lines of the COVID epidemic and his wife Julie, who are going to be helping me sing. This song today. – This is Cry No More by Rhiannon Giddens., (, SINGING ), Hmm.
[ BEATING DRUM ]. First, they stole our bodies. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ). Then they stole our sons.
INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ). Then they stole our gods. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ).
I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ) And gave us new ones. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ).
Then they stole our beauty, — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry now: more. HEATHER KONAR, (, SINGING ) –, the comfort in our skin. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ). Then they gave us duty. INTERVIEWER, 2 AND 3. I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ), And then they gave us sin. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER, KONAR ( SINGING ), Then came generations — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more.. Heather KONAR ( SINGING ) — that helped to build this land. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ).
I can’t cry no more. HEATHER, KONAR (, SINGING ), Bedrock of the nation — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more.
HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ) — was laid with these brown hands. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR (, SINGING ), The solace of a people, — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ) — was found with that new god.
INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR (, SINGING ) And many peaceful steeples — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ).
I can’t cry no more. HEATHER, KONAR (, SINGING ) — would guide the road we trod. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more.
HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ), And then they stole our solace. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more.
HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ), And then they stole our peace, — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR (, SINGING ) –, with countless acts of malice, –, INTERVIEWER, 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR (, SINGING ) — and hatred without cease., INTERVIEWER, 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ).
I can’t cry no more. HEATHER, KONAR, (, SINGING ), A foul and dirty river –, INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR (, SINGING ) — runs through this sacred land. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more.
HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ) With every act of terror, — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ) –. They tell us where we stand.
INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR (, SINGING ), 500 years of poison, — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ) 500 years of grief.
INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER, KONAR (, SINGING ), 500 years of reasons, — INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR (, SINGING ) — to weep with disbelief.
INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). I can’t cry no more. HEATHER KONAR ( SINGING ). Our legacy is mighty. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). We can’t cry no more., HEATHER, KONAR (, SINGING ).
We can’t carry this alone. INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). We can’t cry no more., HEATHER, KONAR ( SINGING ). You have to help us fight it — INTERVIEWER, 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ).
We can’t cry no more. HEATHER, KONAR (, SINGING ), — and together we’ll be home., INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). We can’t cry no more., HEATHER, KONAR ( SINGING ), Then together we’ll be home., INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ). We can’t cry no more. HEATHER, KONAR ( SINGING ), Then together we’ll be home., INTERVIEWER 2 AND 3 ( SINGING ).
We can’t cry no more .