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Kevin Savino​-​Riker (Feat. Sidney Robert Brown) - Lovers, Fighters, Survivors

from Songs for Somethings and Someones by Kevin Savino-Riker

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This song is my submission to the SpinTunes #1 Finalist Challenge: "Musical Road Trip" - Write a song using at least three different ethnic styles. The music from each of the three parts of the song should give the listeners a mental image of a place or group of people from a certain area.

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(Intro - American acoustic pop)
Dancing through these album pages
Fingers grazing old picture frames
It's the way that paper memory ages
Yellowing photos of Linda and James

I stand transfixed and stare
It's almost like I was there
If I look closely I can see
How all of this came to be

(Narration 1 - Ukrainian / German folk)
Anna Korlinchek came from Kiev, Ukraine
And Donald Arthur Riker came from Kiel, Germany
They met in the United States, fell in love, and married.
I never knew her, but I have memories of him:
He always called refrigerators 'Frigidaires'
And he always called me 'Snipe'.
There's a photo of the two of them
Leaning against a beautiful brand-new car.
I like to think that it was blue.

...I turn the page...

(Narration 2 - Italian classical)
He was born 'Modesto Tomaso Giuseppe Valentino Savino'
He went by 'Tom' for short.
His family emigrated to America
From a small town called Bari
In the heel of the boot in southern Italy.
He joined the Navy and fought in World War II
And came home to marry his high school sweetheart.
He loves wine and garlic
And cutting hair.
He's 83 years old now, and still works as a barber
Three days a week.
And he golfs the other four.

...I turn the page...

(Narration 3 - Irish folk)
Joyce Kathryn Hanlon's family hailed from
The County of Armagh in Northern Ireland.
She served as a nurse in World War II
And after the war ended,
Her sister married her high school sweetheart's brother
And she married her high school sweetheart.
And the two families became very very close.
She loves laughter so much,
That even when she swears, it sounds adorable.

...and after all this...

(Conclusion - American acoustic pop)
Donald and Anna had a baby boy
Who they called James
Thomas and Joyce, they had a daughter
Linda was her name

Savino met Riker....

Then Linda and James, they had a baby boy...

Looking back, I see traces of my identity:
Lovers, fighters, survivors
And all of them in me
This is my family tree

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from Songs for Somethings and Someones, track released August 11, 2010
Kevin Savino-Riker: guitar, bass, vocals, bodhran
Sidney Robert Brown: fiddle

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Kevin Savino-Riker Anaheim, California

Hi, I'm a recovering electrical engineer and writer/educator who creates eclectic music on the side. I gig occasionally, I participate in songwriting contests when the mood strikes, and he sometimes speaks in the third person.

He also really believes in bitcoin.

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