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1911 - Chinatown

from This Troubled Land by Circles

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“Why should you, brothers, leave your parents and your wives and children to come over here? Don’t you know that our lot in life here is very much harder than it is in China? There are now about 20 thousand Chinese in Canada, who are unemployed and without a permanent home. They can get no work to support themselves. They go about begging old clothes and bread to save themselves from cold and starvation.”
Circular issued by the Victoria Chinese Board of
Trade Guild in 1913 and widely distributed in China.

“There are not less than 25 Chinese stores, laundries and restaurants in the blocks bounded by King, Queen, Young, and York Streets. How many of them are ‘dens’ in the Police court parlance? One need only stroll through the above mentioned blocks and notice the throngs of Chinamen lounging in the streets and doorways to realize the ‘Yellow Peril’ is more than a mere word in this city. The average citizen would stand aghast did he but realize the awful menace lurking behind the partitions or screens of some of these innocent appearing laundries and restaurants.”
Report in Jack Canuck, 1911.

lyrics

Faces look around
Look at me and say,
There’s another way
And their wandering
This rambling
Losing everything
Slow down.

Traces on the ground
Look at me and say,
“Gotta pave the way”
And their muttering
And their rattling
Losing everything.

Get it, get it now,
Keep my ground
Trust it, get it back down
Hold tightly
keep the pace
run rat’s race
give it, get it back now
Slow down.

I’ll get it, get it now
Keep my ground
Trust it, get it back down
Hold tightly
keep the pace
run rat’s race
give it, get it back now

credits

from This Troubled Land, released October 11, 2016
Hayoun Lee – composition & piano
Alexandra Tait – lyrics & vocals
Neil Whitford – electric guitar
Matthew Roberts – double bass
Mackenzie Longpre – drum kit

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