Artist:
Joe Jencks

Description:

function openPopupWindow1()
{
window.open('http://labornotes.org/songs/graphics/immokalee.jpg' ,'myWin1', 'width=333, height=500');
}

May 2009

by Joe Jencks

Listen at 56k || Listen at 256k

I was blessed to lead a day of songwriting workshops at East Wenatchee High School in Central Washington State in the heart of fruit growing country. I was working with a group of students who spoke little English and I speak almost no Spanish. But together we crafted this song. Their teacher helped them work the translation, and I provided the music. But, it is their ideas and their hearts present in this song. Don't we all ask some of these questions? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Who and what have I left behind in the name of progress?

Photo: Scott Robertson. Click for pop-up.

Listen at 56k || Listen at 256k

Where do I belong
Adonde pertenezco
Where do I come from
De donde vengo
Where will I go from here
Para donde iré de aquí de aquí

I don't have anywhere to stay
No tengo donde quedarme
Going from town to town
Yendo de pueblo a pueblo
To look for a better life
Para buscar una vida mejor vida mejor

    We are looking for communities
    Buscando comunidades
    With better opportunities
    Con mejores oportunidades
    But who have we left behind
    A quienes hemos dejado atrás dejado atrás

Personnel: Joe Jencks, vocals, guitar; Jim Robeson, Charlie Pilzer, sound. Joe Jencks is a member of AFM Local 1000.

Buy The Candle and the Flame cd.

Listen in streaming RealAudio on a 56k modem or better.
Download a free RealOnePlayer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) or QuickTime Player.

Music Archives

May 2009
Joe Jencks

Adonde Pertenezco

Joe Jencks
Photo: Scott Robinson