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Qasidat al-Ma’arifah (The Poem of Knowing) – Shaykh Yasin al-Tuhami

10k films — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:41:29 +0000

Wa fi fana’i fana’ fana’i, wa fi fana’i la illaha illa anta

http://www.tenthousandfilms.com/Yasin_al_Tuhami_part1.mp3 (Thanks A.M)

Revolution spreads to America – Rap News Episode 7

10k films — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:52 +0000

Thanks K.F.

Def Poetry – Amir Sulaiman – Danger

10k films — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:01:08 +0000

Also see: Amir Sulaiman – Dead Man Walking

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

10k films — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:48:48 +0000

‘Paradise’ – John Prine 1980

10k films — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:21:43 +0000

[Starts around min 2.10]

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus:
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Repeat Chorus:

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

Repeat Chorus: