Jackie's Rock by Tamir Kalifa (Featuring Jazmin Cazares)

Описание: A song written as a gesture of gratitude and appreciation for the family of Jackie Cazares, one of 19 children and two teachers killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Music and photographs by Tamir Kalifa.

There's a rock from Uvalde
on a ledge by the banks of the Seine
It’s tucked in the roots of an ivy bush
Jackie’s name is written in white
She always dreamed of seeing the City of Light

We stood beside her on that June afternoon
her grave fresh and swollen with dirt
Covered in rocks painted like Takis and Tik Tok
Ramen and the Eiffel Tower
All of the things, little Jackie
All of the things, little Jackie

They loved her to the moon and back
I was bound for France
Offered them a postcard and that’s when they asked
Take this rock to Paris for our baby girl

She wanted to grow up and see
She wanted to grow up and see
All of the things, little Jackie
All of the things, little Jackie

It should have stayed a skipping stone in the Nueces
instead it found a home in Paris
Jackie should have homework and she should have turned 10
painting rocks of her own after class

All of the things, little Jackie
All of the things, little Jackie
All of the things, little Jackie
All of the things, little Jackie

Could have been

. . . . .

Tamir Kalifa - Vocals, guitar
Jazmin Cazares - Vocals
Sterling Steffen - clarinet, flute
Kelly Pratt - trumpet, flugelhorn, french horn, euphonium
Rita Andrade - viola
Clara Brill - violin
Diana Burgess - cello
Josh Halpern - drums
Sam Panky - bass
Bowman Maze - Piano

Produced by Sterling Steffen
Engineered by John Michael Landon
Mixed by Sterling Steffen and John Michael Landon
Recorded at Estuary Studios in Austin, Texas