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shake the blues

from Chateau Rouge Roomful by kwame write

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Written by Kwame Write

Produced by Tiphaine Deligne

Performed by Kwame Write and Tiphaine Deligne

Recorded and Mixed at Poptone Studios, Paris by Jean-Charles Versari

Mastered by Peter Maher

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Shake The Blues Lyrics

[Verse 1: Kwame Write]

To start with, you travel to the farthest seas
And still miss home and mama's glean
Where the sun leans next to alansa trees
And the moon ingests all the silent breeze
The analogies and the commentaries,
Been gold from old, no fi tarnish we
Let your daughters wear dreads in the dormitories
Knowledge dem used to dread be what scholars seek

Goes to grandmas in the ghettos with dem gutter genes/jeans
And the brothers on the hustle, mix gari and beans
Trotro conversation over Time magazine
Kewa be one of wonna sign languages
The Oga still dey chop, blue balance sheets
Blue SUVs, blue notes in a bundle to bribe Police
From my chop bar to your resto, from the local to the global
Shakey shakey all the blues all the week


[Chorus: Kwame Write + Tiphaine Deligne]

Shakey shakey off the blues
Shakey shakey the blues (4x)


[Bridge: Kwame Write]

Ma woa
Ba mu mbu o
Pemkɔ
Woeni mu o (4x)


[Chorus: Kwame Write + Tiphaine Deligne]

Shakey shakey off the blues
Shakey shakey the blues (4x)


[Verse 2: Kwame Write]


Kojo dey twaa shots and camera scenes
Sports betting no go chop Akua’s hundred gees
Invest, see returns, Harmattan streets
Myopic mass frantic, where vigilance be
Perched passion pits, praying pained prisoners plead
Questions currently, them no answer we
Jubilee house jubilations in jumping jeeps
Potholes like public purse, them obvious leaks

Goes to Young Ama Aidoo’s doing binge reading
Young Achebe’s falling apart, keep reaching deep
Fat leader flops, backbreaking beginning
Now feeling foolish ranting why we receding
Crossing rivers, school shivers, risk repeating
Sliver of the silver, givers rarely receiving
When weather really hard, things wither speedy fast
Think of the greeny past
Shakey shakey, rock the peak


[Chorus: Kwame Write + Tiphaine Deligne]

Shakey shakey off the blues
Shakey shakey the blues (6x)

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from Chateau Rouge Roomful, released July 30, 2021
Written by Kwame Write

Produced by Tiphaine Deligne

Performed by Kwame Write and Tiphaine Deligne

Recorded and Mixed at Poptone Studios, Paris by Jean-Charles Versari

Mastered by Peter Maher

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kwame write Accra, Ghana

Kwame Aidoo (b. 1986) is a writer, cultural manager and artist from Ghana with a BSc biochemistry and biotechnology from KNUST and MOOC Managing the Arts: Cultural Organizations in Transition. He is inspired by West African oral folklore, polyrhythms and symbolism to discuss sociopolitical contexts. He is the author of Ananse Makes Aurora. Mud House Address is his most recent album released. ... more

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