Si Kahn
Si Kahn (born April 23, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter, activist, and founder and former executive director of Grassroots Leadership.
Biography
Early life and education
Kahn grew up in State College, Pennsylvania. When he was 15 his family moved to the Washington, DC area, where he graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. His grandfather Gabriel Kahn, his mother Rosalind Kahn, and his father Benjamin Kahn, a rabbi, instilled a strong sense of the family's Jewish heritage as well as teaching him the rudiments of rhythm and harmony as a child. His uncle, Arnold Aronson, executive secretary of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, helped inspire and shape Kahn's career. Kahn earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. In 1995 he completed a Ph.D. in American Studies from the Union Institute.
Musician and activist
Kahn moved to the south as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, and he now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kahn is the founder and former director of Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit organization that advocates for several causes, including prison reform, improved immigration detention policies, and violence prevention. He retired May 1, 2010. Most of the profits from Kahn's musical performances benefit this group. He has also been involved with Save Our Cumberland Mountains, an environmentalist group opposed to strip mining in Appalachia.
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ALBUMS
- Good Times & Bedtimes released: 1993
- I'll Be There released: 1989
- Carry It On: Songs of America's Working People released: 1987
- In My Heart released:
Good Times & Bedtimes
Released 1993- No More Bedtimes
- Eight O'Clock Midnight Snack
- I'm Not Gonna Go to Sleep
- I Can't Hear My Parents Call
- Under the Bed
- Brush to the North
- You Gotta Have a Peanut Butter Song
- Bark in the Dark
- Babysitter
- Will You Remember
- I'm Gonna Stay in the Bathtub 'Til the Soap Disappears
- What's That Noise
- Underneath the Covers With My Flashlight On
- One Glass of Water
- Shine On
- No More Bedtimes (reprise)
Carry It On: Songs of America's Working People
Released 1987- Step by Step
- Talking Union
- Harriet Tubman
- Bread and Roses
- I'm Gonna Be an Engineer
- John Henry
- Black, Brown and White Blues
- Hurry Hurry Hurry
- A Hayseed Like Me
- De colores
- Carry It On
- Aragon Mill
- Union Maid
- Popular Wobbly
- Soup Song
- No nos moveran / We Shall Not Be Moved
- I Am a Union Woman / Which Side Are You On?
- Joe Hill
- Somos el barco
- He Lies in the American Land
- Solidarity Forever
In My Heart
- Gone Gonna Rise Again
- Aragon Mill
- Mississippi Summer
- Farewell to Ireland
- Gentle With Me Darling
- What You Do With What You Got
- Last Good War
- The Senator
- Brookside Strike
- Luray Women
- Children of Poland
- What Will I Leave
- Cold Frosty Morning
- Wild Rose of the Mountain
- Rock Me, Roll Me
- Molly in the Mill
- Curtains of Old Joe's House
- People Like You
- Crossing the Border
- Welcome to the World
- Detroit, December
- If I Live
- Lady of the Harbor
- In My Heart
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Bring Me Down
by: SaigonYou've ever get the feeling
No matter what they do no matter what they say
You know you'll make it someday
You know the feeling when your back is up against the wall
People say they love you but you ain't convinced at all
Tell them they full of shittin they'll tell ya you insecure
Callin ya immature does that make sense to ya'll?
You ever feel like it's you against the whole world?
Like everybody is scheming even your only girl
Your home boys seem to be counting your money
Tell em you ain't got it n he lookin at you funny
I'm feeling like I probably need ta either leave the game alone
Or either be the cheater bang the chrome n get his hatin on
[Bridge:]
How does the siagon story end how
You know what they sayin for now
[Chorus:]
They'll say I'm killer
I feel I'm as high as I can be
N ya'll ain't gon fly as high as me
I can't be no realaaa
Ya'll ain't gon bring me down [repeats]
I can't be no realaa
Ya'll ain't gonna bring me down
I'm too high but it's not from a drug
It's not from a drink not from a night at the club
It's not from abroad
It's not from what I coped from the deala
I would tell ya
But if I tell ya
Then I gotta kill ya
I've been around a lil while but I'm kinda scared
It's I'll like a vet that's still wet behind the ear
Some niggas look hard
But I don't feel a threat behind the steer
I'm looking for vics
N They could be volunteer
How dare somebody jump out the window ta try n stop me
I wait for niggas then shoot em like I was a paparazzi
Manly's back system knockin the mazzarati
I jump out the back n turn ya block into nagasaki
I shouldn't have always make a issue with the pistol
Just to prove ta kids he's official tissue to the gristle
[Bridge:]
How does the siagon story end how
You know what they sayin for now
[Chorus:]
Just say I'm killer
I feel I'm as high as I can be
N ya'll ain't gon fly as high as me
I can't be no realaaa
Ya'll ain't gon bring me down [repeats]
I can't be no realaa
Ya'll ain't gonna bring me down
I'm too high but it's not from a drug
High on life, love
I'm from above
Just say I'm killer
I feel I'm as high as I can be
N ya'll ain't gon fly as high as me
I can't be no realaaa
Ya'll ain't gon bring me down [repeats]
I can't be no realaa