don't drink the water question...

grazetreat · Post by **grazetreat** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:22 pm

hey,
I'm doing a paper for school and I'm analyzing don't drink the water along with an image and an essay. I'm having a lot of trouble finding a good image and an essay that would relate to the song. Any advice? Thanks!

DJR · Post by **DJR** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:25 pm

if you need some inspiration, try listening to the storytellers version, dave talks for like 3 minutes about the song - good luck

borocks · Post by **borocks** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 4:50 pm

It's about the genocide of the Indian people by the white men which came to America. Dave said that he got the inspiration to this song of a journey to the Grand Canyon and of his imagination of the quiet that once must have been there. And he said I was aweful to realize how bad things were actually going on when the white invaders came and gradually took the land of the Indians and then gradually killed them.
I mean I really share these feelings sometimes, because it really has something overwhelming when you try to imagine what it actually was like.
Dave's intention was probably to pay a tribute to it by doing this song

guitargod · Post by **guitargod** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:15 pm

that was an awesome explanation of that song. you should just copy what he said
hahahahaahahaa, just kidding.

borocks · Post by **borocks** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:20 pm

ätsch bätsch, hahahahahah

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:38 pm

borocks wrote:It's about the genocide of the Indian people by the white men which came to America. Dave said that he got the inspiration to this song of a journey to the Grand Canyon and of his imagination of the quiet that once must have been there. And he said I was aweful to realize how bad things were actually going on when the white invaders came and gradually took the land of the Indians and then gradually killed them.
I mean I really share these feelings sometimes, because it really has something overwhelming when you try to imagine what it actually was like.
Dave's intention was probably to pay a tribute to it by doing this song

a tribute to the killing of thousands? ummm, i think 'tribute' might be the incorrect word. A tribute is attesting to something praiseworthy....there was nothing praiseworthy in killing and stealing...

I think Davesaid it was something about reminding everyone that there are alot of good things in american history but alot of bad things too... or something like that.

borocks · Post by **borocks** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:44 pm

I'm sorry, you're probably right...but see, I didn't understand everything he said because it was in english I had no transator handy...

But he probably said: part of our history has a lot of poisen and we cannot reverse things but we can pay a little tribute to it by thinking about this.

I think it was something like that. Sorry for not expressing myself correctly

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:44 pm

Trippin Hillbilly wrote:a tribute to the killing of thousands? ummm, i think 'tribute' might be the incorrect word. A tribute is attesting to something praiseworthy....there was nothing praiseworthy in killing and stealing...

i dont think he meant that it was praiseworthy, you know he does have problems with his english sometimes

borocks · Post by **borocks** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:55 pm

fatjack wrote:
Trippin Hillbilly wrote:a tribute to the killing of thousands? ummm, i think 'tribute' might be the incorrect word. A tribute is attesting to something praiseworthy....there was nothing praiseworthy in killing and stealing...
i dont think he meant that it was praiseworthy, you know he does have problems with his english sometimes

That's it. It's 0:51 and it's gettin hard making correct sentances in a foreign language.

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:20 pm

Dave was kinda high when he gave that speech. As he was throughout storytellers.

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:33 pm

borocks wrote:
fatjack wrote:
Trippin Hillbilly wrote:a tribute to the killing of thousands? ummm, i think 'tribute' might be the incorrect word. A tribute is attesting to something praiseworthy....there was nothing praiseworthy in killing and stealing...
i dont think he meant that it was praiseworthy, you know he does have problems with his english sometimes
That's it. It's 0:51 and it's gettin hard making correct sentances in a foreign language.

oh yeah...i forgot about that..sorry man

PlayLikeDave · Post by **PlayLikeDave** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:39 pm

grazetreat wrote:hey,
I'm doing a paper for school and I'm analyzing don't drink the water along with an image and an essay. I'm having a lot of trouble finding a good image and an essay that would relate to the song. Any advice? Thanks!

A good book to look into about this would be Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. As for an image, I duno what you could go with. There is not much from Native American artistry that might be a great image for the song. Maybe you can use the Native American guy from the commercial who cries due to the pollution and destruction of the land (and littering). Honestly that works well because we are suppose to sympathize with what happened with them, and at the same time just over look it and pay more attention to other lesser things. Hope that this helps.

peace

SWB · Post by **SWB** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:11 pm

does he play a baratone in don't drink the water

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:27 pm

SWB wrote:does he play a baratone in don't drink the water

nope, he's in drop D

guitargod · Post by **guitargod** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:24 pm

good answer there fatty fatjack

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