Name: Hey Love
Duration: P00H03M36S
Description: ‘Hey love’ is based on a true story that happened to my Mum. I wrote this song because it’s important for the truth to be told and his is apart of my history and it’s important to acknowledge that and understand as to why these things happen.

Hey Love

from Milyakburra by Emily Wurramara

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‘Hey love’ is based on a true story that happened to my Mum. I wrote this song because it’s important for the truth to be told and his is apart of my history and it’s important to acknowledge that and understand as to why these things happen.

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She was a young girl from a mission town

Spoke a language that was hard to learn and she

Didn’t know much about the world of the western society

Her mum was the skin of the blanket of the night the stars were inside her so she can, follow the light back home to where she belongs

Hey love I know how it feels to be so far away from the life you’ve come to live

Hey love I know you want to cry but the winds will guide you back to mother to mother to mother

Oh why? Oh why? Oh why? To mother to mother

She was in the toilets one after noon these girls walked in older by a few years

They told her things that weren’t true because of her mother they hated her too

They pushed her around and spat on her face they laughed and mocked her

She knew it had to stop

Back to back with two of her friends she fought the sadness right through til the end

They were laying on the bathroom floor the words they said never left a scar

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from Milyakburra, released June 1, 2018

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Emily Wurramara Anindilyakwa, Australia

Emily Wurramara is a young Aboriginal woman who has been writing songs since she was 6, singing in both English and Annandilyakwa, the traditional language of her home, Groote Eylandt. She is a prolific song-writer and multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, piano and ukulele. ... more

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