Name: I Don't Know
Duration: P00H03M20S
Description: Loss of culture and connection can be fragmenting beyond measure snowballing generational trauma and suffering through loss of meaningful identity.

I Don't Know

from Junction by Fiona Lee Maynard

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Loss of culture and connection can be fragmenting beyond measure snowballing generational trauma and suffering through loss of meaningful identity.

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Mama said –
“your papa’s from a Murray River clan
But he pretends to get along,
like any poor white man”
Mob will ask me
“ Do you know, the Maynards from down South?”
“You look like them.”
they say, before another word falls from my mouth

But – I don’t know.

Very few would own up to a lineage back then
I was born in 1967
Year of a referendum
To survive some had to hide
the truth from those in town
Just to stay alive and walk upon their ground

So – I don’t know

I’ve tried to trace my heritage through old birth certificates
Paid and paid to take a look
and nothing there yet fits
Though I hear a Tribal voice inside
getting louder everyday
O Universe please show me proof
I pray and pray and pray

Cause – I don’t know

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from Junction, released January 22, 2024
(c) Fiona Lee Maynard Lyrics and composition
Recorded and engineered by Warwick Thomas at Sound Concepts
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering
Produced by Fiona Lee Maynard & Warwick Thomas

Fiona Lee Maynard – Lead Vocals, Rhythm acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, Percussion
Warwick Thomas – Backing Vocals, percussion, Didgeridoo
James Lomas – Guitar
Cal McAlpine – Cajon

Photography - Tameika Brumby

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Fiona Lee Maynard Melbourne, Australia

Fiona Lee Maynard shows her folk roots in a musical memoir recorded while waiting to donate a kidney to her husband. Identified by critics as a songwriter with a lot to say and an endless vocabulary of emotions with which to say it, her new album Junction serves up 11 songs spawned from needing to raise her own spirits and shared in the hope they will do the same for listeners. ... more

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