Abonos i slonovača – Ebony and Ivory

Abonos i slonovača – Ebony and Ivory

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Za početak rada u 2022/2023 u Actory Factory školi, na časovima pevanja naučićemo pesmu Ebony and Ivory, veliki hit iz 1982. godine, koji potpisuju muzičari Paul McCartney i Stevie Wonder. Pesma priča o tome da u muzici prava harmonija nastaje tek kada se služimo i belim i crnim dirkama na klaviru, metaforično, ukazuje nam da samo zajedno možemo da stvorimo bolji svet bez obzira na naše razlike u boji kože ili bilo čemu. Paul McCartney je inspiraciju našao u rečima irskog umetnika Spike Milligan-a: ”Crne dirke, bele dirke, narode, da bi napravio harmoniju moraš da koristiš i jedne i druge!” Paul McCartney je kao muzičar bio odušvljen ovom analogijom, i tako je nastala pesma! Ljudi, bez obzira na to koliko su različiti moraju biti ujedinjeni u toj različitosti, moraju stvarati zajedno jer je lepota života u harmoniji!

Abonos i slonovača

To get started at Actory Factory School, 2022/2023 we chose the song Ebony and Ivory, the song was released 1982. by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The song is about the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano, but also deals with integration and racial harmony. The title was inspired by McCartney hearing Spike Milligan (irish artist) say, “Black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony, folks!” Paul McCartney wrote this song, saying that the message was “that people of all types could live together.” He liked the piano analogy, since you can play using just the white keys or just the black keys, but to make great music, you have to combine them. It talks about the fact that people can be united in their diversity, create together, work together and that there is actually beauty in that.

Ebony and Ivory

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don’t we? We all know that people are the same whereever you go
There is good and bad in ev’ryone
We learn to live, we learn to give each other what we need to survive, together alive

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don’t we? Ebony, ivory, living in perfect harmony
Ebony, ivory, ooh We all know that people are the same whereever you go
There is good and bad in ev’ryone
We learn to live, when we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive, together alive Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don’t we?