Don't you Let Nobody Turn You 'Round - O. Poole, Eric / Change Sings (2022-2023)

Season	2022-2023
Performance Date	April 22, 2023
Performance Year	2023
Performance Time	2:00PM
Location	Capri Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Performance Title	Change Sings
Composer	Eric O. Poole
Country	United States
Year Composed	2022
Timing	4'40”
Performers	VocalEssence Singers Of This Age, Members of VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Text Translation	Don’t you let nobody turn you aroun’, Don’t let ‘em turn you aroun’. You better keep on, keep walkin’, walkin, Keep on, keep talkin’, talkin’. Marchin’, marchin’ up to freedom lan’. Don’t you let no bully, Don’t you let no hatred, Don’t you let racism turn you aroun’. I been ‘buked and I been scorned. I been talked about as sure as you’re born. I’m gonna keep my hands on the Gospel plow. Nobody! Nobody! NOBODY gonna turn me out! I’m gonna find good trouble, I’m gonna find good trouble, I’m gonna find some necessary trouble and turn it aroun’. Nobody turnin’ me roun’. No. No. Nobody gonna turn me aroun’. No. No. Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me. No. No. No. No…, no…, no…, nobody turnin’ me ‘roun’. Nobody, NO! Won’t let ‘em turn me. Keep on, keep walkin’, walkin, Keep on, keep talkin’, talkin’. Findin’ good trouble, trouble, Marchin’, marchin’ IN to freedom lan’, right IN to freedom lan’! —Traditional spiritual, alt. Eric O. Poole

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