Wake for New Orleans (by Eryn Bates)
Channel: sean hogge
Date: 2013-04-09

Eryn Bates performs her latest song "Wake for New Orleans" at the Uptown Arts Bar in Kansas City, Missouri.

Eryn is an accomplished stage performer, having been a music director, composer and arranger for several of Kansas City's most-loved and critically-acclaimed theater performances. She has recently begun to perform her original work, including an EP release of "Eryn Bates and A Thousand Dreadful Things," in which she performs Shakespearean sonnets set to music which she composed for the production of Titus Andronicus at The Living Room Theater in Kansas City.

Eryn can also be found performing for private events, providing tasteful live music in the form of jazz standards and popular songs. To book Eryn for your next event, showcase or performance, she can be reached at eryn.bates AT gmail.com.

Lyrics:
There was a rhyming city on the blue bayou
'Til a wicked wind laid waste.
A nothing sound in a city's soul
And a-nothing you can do.
 
In came a windy will and a blue horn, too
A single name that left in haste
A nothing sound in a city's soul
And a-nothing you can do.
 
There was a wailing city, water high,     and you.
And things that cannot be replaced.
A nothing sound in a city's soul
And a-nothing you can do.
 
A rhyming city on the blue bayou
and a-nothing you can do.
 
There is a silent city on the blue bayou
A tired wind   and people wait.
A nothing sound in a city's soul
And a-nothing you can do.