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Dyrty Byrds - Beautiful Trip

from For A Better Life by Various Artists

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about

Watching the news one night in early 2019 I came across the story of a young girl named Jakelin Caal Maquin. She was a seven year old who came to the US from Guatemala with her 29 year old father Nery Caal and was detained and separated from her dad. She died in Border Patrol custody on Dec. 8th 2018 from dehydration, shock, and liver failure. Her story is jarring to say the least and I thought about the circumstances leading to her and her father leaving plus making journey. A journey that would bring them through a beautiful and treacherous Central America in a lot of cases probably for the first time. Experiencing this while literally running for their lives while up against the clock of physical stamina and having enough money, food, and water to get there. I definitely paused the program a couple of times but before the news story was finished the song was done. After I recorded the basic tracks my longtime Dyrty Byrds writing partner Tori Pater came up with the slide melody and vocal arrangement for he and Micah Munro to sing which truly tied the song together for me. ~Eric Martinez

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In memory of Jakelin Caal Maquin

Hallucinations
And a tired kid
The next three weeks
Will be the worst of it

Snow is coming
And we need new shoes
Some clean water
And just a bit of food

It's a beautiful trip
The closest I've come to death
Won't you spare my kids
Don’t put them in a cage

Violence rose
In a tidal wave
A cartel’s cleansing
Of their enemies

Questions came
About a month ago
Stay and die
Or make the long walk north

It's a beautiful trip
The closest I've come to death
Won't you spare my kids
Don’t put them in a cage

credits

from For A Better Life, released December 3, 2019
Written by Eric Martinez
www.dyrtybyrds.org
Guitar, vocals, bass, drums- Eric Martinez
Vocals- Tori Pater
Vocals- Micah Munro
Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound, Oakland CA

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annie bacon & her OSHEN Ann Arbor, Michigan

Annie Bacon is a songwriter musician in Michigan. She aches for a more empathic humanity + her creativity orbits around this. She also composed a Folk Opera.

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