Eddie - The Storyteller - AI Assisted Music

Описание: This song traces the deep history of Australia's First Nations people, from the ancient wisdom of the Dreamtime and care for Country to the devastating impacts of colonization, the Stolen Generations, and the long fight for justice that led to the landmark Mabo decision. It is a tribute to the resilience, culture, and unbroken connection of Indigenous Australians to the land.

Lyrics (c) Marc Glasby

Black man dreams in the great south land
rich red earth where the coolabah stands
Dreamtime laws and wandering tribes
cared for the land where the bilby once thrived

Walkabout wandering, travelling far
follow the food, watching the stars
Pass down the knowledge father to son
mother to daughter since time had begun

Dreamtime stories, painting the way
Spirits are calling, so much to say
singing the culture, walking the land
feeling the seasons, joining of hands

Season on season, year upon year
living in freedom with nothing to fear
Everything changed when the white fellah came
New laws, new diseases, now nothing's the same

The land had no people said white fellas’ law
but black man resisted to even the score
But nothing prepared them for bullets and guns
The battle was over before it begun

Dreamtime stories, painting the way
Spirits are calling, so much to say
singing the culture, walking the land
feeling the seasons, joining of hands

Once standing tall, alone in this land
the black man was broken by white mans’ demands
His pride and his country were taken away
and stolen black children were lost and betrayed

The churchmen descended intent on reform
To civilize black man and make him conform
But civilization was all in their heads
and countless black mothers still mourned for their dead

Dreamtime stories, painting the way
Spirits are calling, so much to say
singing the culture, walking the land
feeling the seasons, joining of hands

The lies and deception were turned into laws
and lubras were taken and made white mans’ whores
And so it continued and nothing was done
The ‘civilized’ white man stood tall in the sun

For two hundred years the black man was robbed
Treated less than a human and worse than a dog
And finally one man said enough is enough
my people have suffered and still have it tough

A man they call Mabo showed white men the way
to make a down payment on debts to repay.

Dreamtime stories, painting the way
Spirits are calling, so much to say
singing the culture, walking the land
feeling the seasons, joining of hands

feeling the seasons, joining of hands

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AI music is controversial as is has the possibility of putting a lot of people in the music industry out of work BUT it also democratises music. I have zero musical talent. I can’t write music and I can’t sing but I do write lyrics that I believe are good enough to be made into songs.

So far this has only happened to two on my ballads and I have so many more that I think will make good songs.

Enter AI. I now have the opportunity to turn my words into songs and to share them with the world at large. Although my ballads have been shared for many years, people are just not interested in reading them. Songs are so much easier to digest but apart from two that were turned into songs, nobody ever bothered.

Since no one was interested in converting my ballads to music, I am not putting anyone out of work by pursuing this.

The lyrics (apart from one collaboration with Graham Rodgers for the song The Eagle) are all my own original work. The music and vocals are AI.

Should any recording artist want to take one of my songs and release it, I would be more than happy to speak with them about it.

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