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About "The Trouble With Hari"
Picture a precocious little girl, growing up in a traditional Indian village, caring more for her pictures and paintings than for following tradition. This is the trouble with Hari, with playful lyrics set to a lively Brazilian-Hindustani-calypso beat.
lyrics
The trouble with Hari is she’s smart
Has iron will and a rebel heart
Mother tells her what not to do
“Don’t you play with paints - go to school”
But all Hari thinks of is her art
She makes giant pictures in the sand
She uses whatever is at hand
Images of Krishna, Arjuna
Characters from Bhagavad-Gita
The mythical tales of India land
Lakshmi Auntie lives just down the way
She sees Hari’s drawings everyday
She pays a surprise visit
To sit down with Ma and Pa
Tell them Hari’s head is in the clouds
“I have seen this kind of thing in the past
At this rate, she’ll marry out of caste
You’ve got to do something soon
To stop this bad behaviour
Or else your good fortunes will not last”
And Hari doesn’t know what to do
Arjuna’s struggle is Hari’s too
Why is it she cannot follow through
“I wish that Arjuna fashioned me into his arrow so that
he can shoot me high above my life, and all at once, I can be true”
The trouble with Hari is she’s smart
Has iron will and a rebel heart
Hari heard what Krishna had to say
Like Arjuna, finally made her way
Now her works adorn the Taj Mahal
The trouble with Hari is she’s far
From the only butterfly in this jar
When the Great Lord Krishna snaps the lid
Gives you freedom like a little kid
Tell me, my friend: what then will you start?
credits
from The Humours of Autorickshaw, released 10 November 2013
Gordon Sheard; lyrics by Andrew Craig and Suba Sankaran
Music © Gordon Sheard
Lyrics © 2013 Suba Sankaran/Andrew Craig/Opus Nopus Music
Commissioned by Autorickshaw
Arranged by Andrew Craig
Suba Sankaran: lead and background vocals
Ed Hanley: tabla
Rich Brown: electric bass
Andrew Craig: funk guitar
Justin Abedin: power, jazz and lead guitars
Patrick Graham: cowbells, granite blocks, vibraslap, cow, cuica, shakers, rainstick, thundersheet, gong, frog, wiggly stick, castanets
Larnell Lewis: drum kit
Gordon Sheard: accordion
lyrics
The trouble with Hari is she’s smart
Has iron will and a rebel heart
Mother tells her what not to do
“Don’t you play with paints - go to school”
But all Hari thinks of is her art
She makes giant pictures in the sand
She uses whatever is at hand
Images of Krishna, Arjuna
Characters from Bhagavad-Gita
The mythical tales of India land
Lakshmi Auntie lives just down the way
She sees Hari’s drawings everyday
She pays a surprise visit
To sit down with Ma and Pa
Tell them Hari’s head is in the clouds
“I have seen this kind of thing in the past
At this rate, she’ll marry out of caste
You’ve got to do something soon
To stop this bad behaviour
Or else your good fortunes will not last”
And Hari doesn’t know what to do
Arjuna’s struggle is Hari’s too
Why is it she cannot follow through
“I wish that Arjuna fashioned me into his arrow so that
he can shoot me high above my life, and all at once, I can be true”
The trouble with Hari is she’s smart
Has iron will and a rebel heart
Hari heard what Krishna had to say
Like Arjuna, finally made her way
Now her works adorn the Taj Mahal
The trouble with Hari is she’s far
From the only butterfly in this jar
When the Great Lord Krishna snaps the lid
Gives you freedom like a little kid
Tell me, my friend: what then will you start?
credits
from The Humours of Autorickshaw, released 10 November 2013
Gordon Sheard; lyrics by Andrew Craig and Suba Sankaran
Music © Gordon Sheard
Lyrics © 2013 Suba Sankaran/Andrew Craig/Opus Nopus Music
Commissioned by Autorickshaw
Arranged by Andrew Craig
Suba Sankaran: lead and background vocals
Ed Hanley: tabla
Rich Brown: electric bass
Andrew Craig: funk guitar
Justin Abedin: power, jazz and lead guitars
Patrick Graham: cowbells, granite blocks, vibraslap, cow, cuica, shakers, rainstick, thundersheet, gong, frog, wiggly stick, castanets
Larnell Lewis: drum kit
Gordon Sheard: accordion
