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This song was gathered from the Chippewa tribe by ethnomusicologist Francis Densmore, who provided, along with other documentation,
a massive collection of American Indian wax cylinder recordings for the Smithsonian .

Nylon-string guitar & vocal: Dawn
Bass & vocal: Nils
Backing vocals: daughter-chorus
Drums: Edda

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Let us go to the sugar camp, while the snow lies on the ground
Live in a birch-bark wigwam, all the children and the older folk
While the people are at work

Cut a notch in the maple tree, set a pail on the ground below
Soon the sap will be flowing, from the tree it will be flowing
All the people are at work

Make a fire in the sugar lodge, so that we may boil the sap
Bring all the wooden ladles, set the wooden trough for graining
All the people are at work

In the snow see the rabbit tracks, hear the note of the chickadee
We must not stop to follow them, 'tis the season of the sugar camp
All the people are at work

Bring the sap from the maple trees, pour the sap in the iron pot
See how it steams and bubbles, may we have a little taste of it?
All the people are at work

Pour the syrup in the graining trough, stir it slowly as it thicker grows
Now it has changed to sugar, we may eat it in a birch-bark dish
There is sugar for us all !

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from FAUN FABLES ~ LIVE IN NORWAY, track released October 7, 2022
Music: traditional Chippewa, arrangement by Faun Fables
Lyrics: paraphrased to English by Francis Densmore

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Faun Fables California

Troubadours of animist, otherworldly folk rock and story since 1998, FAUN FABLES are known for exquisite, visceral adventures in song and live performance. Dawn McCarthy's voice opens hearts and minds from a whisper to a rallying battle cry into her mythical world, animated by the adventurous musicality and vocals of partner Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Free Salamander Exhibit). ... more

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