Every Time I Look At Someone:AWIYA WAHBAMAG INDI NAWAYMIG(Honoring Clara Beebe)

From the Album The Drum Is The Center of My Life

Every time I look at someone they’re related to me

I never spent a Christmas at home
Both of my parents died
Went to Government school
An orphan at the age of five
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright

Every time I look at someone they’re related to me

In the fall they rounded us up
Brothers and friends
Nine months in boarding school
Before coming home again
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright

Every time I look at someone they’re related to me

On Christmas the family came
A bag of candy and toys
To hear the children sing
A song of Christmas joy
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright

Every time I look at someone they’re related to me

After school got T.B.
Had lung surgery
Children one, two, three
Santa Claus has nothing on me
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright

Every time I look at someone they’re related to me

I come from the Eagle Clan
Tell stories of WAYNABOOZHOO
Was Baptized as a child
Now teach Ojibwe at school.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Every time I look at someone they’re related to me

Words & music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long Publishing 2015 / BMI

*Lyrics collectively written with Youth & Elders from the Anishinaabe community of Lac Courte Oreilles. Inspired by Clara Beebe.

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