Today’s dispatch is Heart and Soul.  Originally dispatched on 30 March 2015

Une fois de plus, bonne journée mes amies,

Calexico’s Across the Wire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkryXbJ14dE

Those with so much
No show of heart

 Buena Vista Social Club- Veinte Años
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Z-sDhzq-k

Es un pedazo del alma
que se arranca sin piedad

(It’s a piece of the soul
Torn out without mercy)

And for those that have the luxury of spare time- a version from nearly a century ago

Maria Teresa Vera- Veinte Años
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja0HBp2hL-Q

And from around the same time

Bessie Smith- Downhearted Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHa2GRozOms

Erma Franklin (Aretha-prangka)-Piece of My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0QAxIKf8G4

Take another little piece of my heart 

Baymarrwaßa’s way of resisting assimilation is the endeavor to ennoble the hearts of those who try to change her people. Her great fear is that her culture and country will be destroyed and it is this thought that keeps her struggling on against ignorance. She continues to oppose forced assimilation and the destruction of indigenous languages long after others have given up.

Vale Baymarrwaßa – August 2014

And endeavour she did. What a pity that those with no show of heart are in charge, call the shots and hold the purse strings.

Louis Armstrong- Cold Cold Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXapjNo3Uck

Why can’t I free your doubtful mind
And melt your cold cold heart ?

Porquoi pas? 

François